They Said:
Opinions and ideas expressed by members of the Williams community.
“We will now be able to provide for the arts, humanities and social sciences the kinds of wonderfully effective teaching and learning spaces that Schow Library affords sciences and math.”
— Adam Falk, Williams president, in an Oct. 18 announcement that work will begin anew this spring on the Stetson-Sawyer library. The $80 million project, placed on hold due to the global financial crisis, is expected to be complete in 2014. For information, visit http://bit.ly/Stetson-Sawyer.
“We’re notoriously wimpy, but we wanted to start doing something active. … We began with planks first, but we decided to pronounce them ‘Plancks’ after Max Planck … one of the founding fathers of quantum theory.”
— Margaret Robinson ’12, who with three other students last year founded the Physics Exercise Worship Circle, a combination study break/intensive workout session that now draws 20 to 30 students two to three times per week. Record, 11.03.10