Sami Mirza

Allegheny’s women’s lacrosse team is looking ahead to their home opener this weekend against Ohio Wesleyan University. The game — set for Saturday at 1 p.m. at Frank B. Fuhrer Field — will start the 30th season for women’s lacrosse at Allegheny. The team is approaching the game as a “fresh start.”

Sam Ault, ’26, and Kaleialoha Froning, ’25, (left) and News Editor and debate moderator Anna Westbrook, ’26, listen to Ella Derose, ’27, speak with her running mate Ray Colabawalla, ’25, in the Shafer Auditorium on Tuesday, March 19.

ASG Co-Director of Student Affairs London Dejarnette, ’24, alleged a culture of ASG discouraging internal dissent in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday afternoon, painting a behind-the-scenes picture of the current ASG cabinet that suggests ASG’s public image has become a higher priority than solving problems. Responding to Dejarnette’s statements, ASG leadership offered a sharply contrasting image of how the organization works.

Liam Richmond, ’25, gives a brief speech prior to being voted in as a member of the Judicial Review Board at the ASG General Assembly on Tuesday, April 2. To Richmond’s right is fellow appointee Reese Smith, ’24, while to Richmond’s left is Sam Goodwin, ’25, who was appointed as an alternate. Behind Goodwin is the final appointee, Andrew Strobel, ’24.

Students, adviser provide insight into difficult year in student government

The Allegheny Student Government passed a resolution in support of Palestine at their General Assembly Tuesday evening, just over six months after the war began. The resolution calls for a ceasefire and for the college to make a statement acknowledging the pain caused by the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have killed...

Cat Marchando, ’26, prepares to present about harm reduction policies to the Allegheny Student Government at the General Assembly on Tuesday, April 16.

The 2024-25 Allegheny Student Government sits together at the cabinet table towards the end of this year’s final General Assembly on Tuesday, April 23. There were no nominees for either of the finance positions, a new parliamentarian or a director of organizational development.

Students are set to lose control of part of their surplus fund, after the Allegheny Student Government ended the year without approving any major capital projects. At the April 16 General Assembly, ASG President Nicole Recio Bremer, ’25, said that she hoped to have a project presented at ASG’s final meeting on Tuesday, April 23. However, that presentation did not happen, leaving the project — an outdoor classroom space next to Pelletier Library — in limbo.

I’ve been thinking about this goodbye column for years now, and it’s taken many forms in my head.