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April 01, 2005
Not a "replacement year" for upbeat crew team
Steven Beauregard
With just three more days until the beginning of the season, a regatta in Worcester, MA against WPI and Bates, the men's and women's crew teams will bring more than just sore muscles and newly acquired tans to the table.
Women's rugby learns international lesson
Acacia O'Connor
When the Vassar women’s rugby team prepared for their recent spring break tour of Argentina, they knew they would face stiff competition and some adverse circumstances.
Long winter takes toll on campus sports and fields
Sarah Palermo
The long Vassar winters are tough, and no one is more excited for sunshine and warm weather than the spring sports teams. Baseball, tennis, and lacrosse have been practicing indoors for weeks, pretending the green indoor tennis courts are grassy fields.
Out Of Bounds | The reason March exists: College basketball gone "mad"
Gabe Mosca
Here at Out of Bounds, the staff watches hundreds of college basketball games every year. No game is too important. No game is too inconsequential. We revel in a classic North Carolina-Duke contest and we wake up early to catch the America East Championships.
Sports Calendar
Game schedule for the week of Apr. 1 to 7.
Round Table on Drug and Alcohol Policy
Is there any truth to the rumor that Vassar will become a dry campus? In this new feature, The Miscellany News asks the questions everyone wants answered via a discussion between select students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
This week’s topic is Vassar’s drug and alcohol policy. Participants include Associate Dean Raymon Parker, Director of Security Don Marsala, several student leaders, and a student EMT.
Another Angle | The life of one woman turns into activist icon
Terri Schiavo used as a political pawn by those claiming to be "right-to-life"
Amanda Melillo
The media circus has again shifted its focus recently from Michael Jackson’s trial and his choice in what pajama pants to wear to court to the much debated Florida case of Terri Schiavo.
Backpage Calendar
Events calendar for the week of April 1 to April 7, plus a kiddie pool filled with tea and the jokes that go with it.
College goes "No-Ed"
In the coming weeks, look forward to a new—and, we hope, improved—edition of the campus newspaper, now reimagined as the semi-monthly activities circular serving Vassar in its new incarnation, Matthew’s Place Day Spa and Center for Better Living.
Last week, reporters from Semi-Monthly List of Activities (Luncheon Menu on back), as The Miscellany News will henceforth be known, sat down with the celebrity members of the Calendar Committee to discuss Vassar’s next great leap foward.
Political Pragmatist | Socially secure until 2042?
Matt Virgile
Since President Bush’s re-election last November, his administration has been devoted to its newfound goal to privatize the Social Security system. The President faces, however, nearly unanimous opposition from the Democrats in Congress as well as from many Republicans on the issue.
Practice makes perfect for campus band Genghis Tron
Freddy Deknatel
In a cramped room in the basement of Davison, the band Genghis Tron practices. On March 23, their usual Wednesday afternoon rehearsal was all the more inviting as the wet March snow flurried outside.
Go to hell and back with Philalatheis production
Margaret Files
“Hell is other people.” So goes the famous line from Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit, which proves the sentiment to be true with tension, dark humor, and entertainment.
Prefuse 73 works best solo
Mike Newmark
There are dogs, and then there are dogs: the kind of animals that deserve praise, admiration, and lots of doggie biscuits for the amazing feats that they accomplish in their daily routines. At Vassar, we have one such dog here.
M.I.A. lyrics draw inspiration from tough upbringing
Marcella Veneziale
Maya Arulpragasam, better known as M.I.A., may have produced one of the most complex and least-listened to albums of recent times. Although Arular was originally released in 2003, along with its first single, “Galang,” it has recently been re-released on March 22.
Alum returns for 50 nights
Emma Epstein
On April 2, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) and African-American Alumni Association (AAAVC) will co-sponsor a campus-wide party celebrating the 50 nights remaining until graduation with a performance by hip-hop group The Real Live Show.
What's to do? Poughkeepsie Edition
Rising star to appear at The Chance, and Unbound uses the Bard to explore gender.
Service or Volunteerism?
Should Vassar introduce a community service graduation requirement? Or should the College continue to allow students to decide whether or not to volunteer?
Corwin packs Chapel for naturalist talk
Discussion focuses on conservation and Corwin's environmental philosophy
Jamie Rosen and John Palmer
At age six, Jeff Corwin realized he was a naturalist. When he walked in his grandmother’s house with a garter snake hanging on his arm by its teeth, he refused his grandmother’s order to “get rid of it,” justifying himself with a classic response: “Because I love it,” he said at the Chapel.
Inside the VSA: We're all members, but how does it work?
Anita Varma
As Vassar Student Association (VSA) elections draw closer and talk of transparency continues to pervade student conversations, VSA Council meetings become a point of interest.
Lecture redefines film for the information age
Jason Lipeles
Competing with video games and the Internet, the DVD industry has had to invent new ways to attract consumers, said Jay Bolter, a Wesley Professor of New Media in the School of Literature, Communications, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Science mag opens discussion
Publication hopes to knit together sciences at Vassar
Jamie Rosen
There are dogs, and then there are dogs: the kind of animals that deserve praise, admiration, and lots of doggie biscuits for the amazing feats that they accomplish in their daily routines. At Vassar, we have one such dog here.
Architecture expert gives talk on memorials
John Palmer
Dell Upton, the Harrison Professor of Anthropology and Architecture at the University of Virginia, spoke about commemorating the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s on March 22.
Student cartoonist publishes accessible strip on Web
Sarah DeFilippe
With his shaggy brown hair and vintage blue and green checked smoking jacket, Ryan Peterson ’08 is hard to miss. He’s the kind of guy who draws you into his own world by using his quick wit and frequent bursts of impersonations to get his point across: life is funny.
Two hour blackout strands students, leaves campus in the dark
Anita Varma
Students in dorms woke up to flashing lights and noises of computers shutting down on the night of Wednesday, March 23. The College lost power at 1:57 a.m. A security report reported that the blackout was “due to the weather.”
Restructuring will leave Dean of Students Office intact
Jen Dixon
Contrary to a statement made at Feb. 24's Town Meeting, the Dean of Students Office and current Dean D.B. Brown will remain at Vassar next year. Dean of the College J.J. Jackson spent the bulk of that meeting attempting to clarify her proposed reorganization of the the Dean of the College division.
Dean of College revises meeting plans
Ariel Schwartz
In response to the Town Meeting held on February 24, Dean of the College J.J. Jackson has planned a series of smaller town meetings that will be hosted by administrators of the College.
ASA conference-goers 'rise up'
Patrick Murray
The Asian Students’ Alliance held a conference last weekend on the subject of Asian culture education, the presence of Asians in politics, Asian performance art, labor unions, sexuality, civil action, prison reform, gender identity, and pornography production.
VSA and Dean of College assess committees
h3>Ilyse Kramer
The Office of the Dean of the College and the Vassar Student Association are assessing committees on which student representatives serve. This includes both student-run and joint committees. Joint committees are run by students, members of the faculty and administration.
Forum addresses proposed jail expansion
Jen Dixon
A gathering at the Family Partnership Center of Poughkeepsie on Saturday, March 26 drew approximately 60 to 70 people for a discussion of the proposed expansion of the Dutchess County Jail.
News Briefs
Laptop stolen from room in Josselyn, underage guest removed from Mug, and unauthorized party in D block of THs.
