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April 08, 2005
Financial Aid at Vassar | The Demographics of Aid
How Vassar's financial aid figures stack up
Published here are the percentages of total students receiving aid over the past ten years.
Financial Aid at Vassar | Going to Vassar for free
Emma White
While 52.5 percent of Vassar students are on financial aid, over the last year 27 students had their tuition waived to attend the College through an employee benefit program.
Financial Aid at Vassar | Blowing bucks or pinching pennies?
What Vassar students buy in a week
Rachel Wolff
The Vassar Student Association works to make things on campus either free or very affordable for all students, creating a campus where students don’t need to worry about having money on them in order to attend events. But is it really all that easy to operate with no money on campus?
Financial Aid at Vassar | Crunching the numbers
Aid at peer institutions
Peer institutions have a variety of policies and terminology for their aid policies, ranging from need-blind aid to need-sensitive to aid based in departmental excellence instead of need.
Financial Aid at Vassar | One big piggy bank
Need-sensitive policy and financial aid on campus
Amanda Melillo
Vassar’s official policy is that the College is “need sensitive” when admitting students, which can be a misleading term.
Student-organized meeting focuses on communication, clarity
Fabian Arzuaga
On Thursday, March 31, a gathering of 22 “concerned student peers” met in the Villard Room to reflect upon and critique the Feb. 24 Town Meeting with Dean of the College J.J. Jackson.
Ski team reauthorized by VSA
Ilyse Kramer
The Vassar Student Associaton (VSA) Council recently unanimously voted to reauthorize Vassar’s ski team as a VSA funded organization. In February 2004, the VSA revoked the ski team’s funding due to financial problems and inappropriate behavior at the Battleground Hotel in Mad River, Vermont during a ski trip.
Security, black male students engage in formal dialogue
Anita Varma
Five security officers and five black male students congregated in Main Building for anstructured dialogue. On the evening of Thursday, March 31, the group engaged in a discussion for two hours facilitated by Metcalf Psychological Counselor Larry Cerecedes.
Tsunami relief sells "hope" bracelets
Hayley Tsukayama
Vassar’s Tsunami Relief Task Force (TRTF) continued their fundraising work this week, selling bracelets to raise money for victims of December’s tsunami. One thousand light blue bracelets—similar in style to the Lance Armstrong “LiveStrong” bracelets—went on sale April 4.
News Briefs
A student stole a troubleshooter vehicle from Buildings and Grounds.
Elections pose questions about the role of student leaders
After the recent controversy surrounding administrative transparency, these elections offer students the opportunity to choose the representatives who have the power to enact policy change in the coming year.
On the Fence | School shooting points to global issue of hate groups
Ian Saxine
At a glance, the Red Lake High School killings are merely a depressing continuation of the school shooting trend in the United States...Yet Red Lake High School was not in affluent Littleton, Colorado, but on the poor Ojibwa reservation in Minnesota.
Get to know your presidential candidates
A question and answer session with the 2005 VSA presidential candidates.
Is Res Life finally moving in the right direction?
Jessica Gentile
After last year’s senior housing shortage debacle, which left several upperclassmen residing in tiny single dorm rooms rather than the more desirable TAs and THs, Residential Life has finally made appropriate accommodations for students.
Letters to the Editor
Students must question status quo, clarification of a misconstrued quote in the last issue, and misidentification of flower in Miscellany News photo caption.
The Vassar Chronicles | More than the curtains: A history of pranks
Jon Cruz
Mischief. Humor. Mirth. They have a long history on campus, dating back well before this year’s stunt that made April Fools out of all who attempted to take a shower last Friday morning.
Students present plans to renovate museum space
Jason Lipeles
As part of the Geology Department’s plans to rejuvenate Vassar’s natural history museum, six Vassar students from the architecture design class presented their potential plans to renovate the A. Scott Warthin Natural History Museum last Thursday, March 31.
Letters From Abroad | Hiroshima visit raises questions
Josh Ferguson
Cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom in Japan, a sure sign of spring. Watching the tiny buds develop, burst into bloom, and then quietly fall in a gentle breeze makes one acutely aware of the rapid passage of time.
Congressman Lazio returns to alma mater
Rachel Wolff
Vassar College’s only federal politician made a speaking appearance on campus Wednesday, April 6. Republican Congressman Rick Lazio ’80, a representative of New York, served an eight-year congressional tenure, beginning in 1993 and terminating in 2001.
How to get published: Writers for teen talk
Abby Loomis
They write novels on such tough topics as substance abuse, date rape, and child abandonment. What’s more, E.R. Frank ’90, Mariah Fredericks ’88, and Carolyn Mackler ’95 push the envelope farther by bringing this sort of difficult material to a unique audience—young adults.
College celebrates ten years of the Web
John Palmer
Ten years ago, The Miscellany News reported that Vassar had been officially connected to the World Wide Web, which enabled students for the first time to connect to outside Web pages and multimedia content.
Open source revolution means more Internet
Dan Morgan
When the Internet began to really grow in the late 90s, the public understood it as a useful parallel to the more tangible content delivery systems already in place.
“Algerian” student team wins Model U.N. award
Patrick Murray
Vassar and Dutchess County Community College Students finally found something they have in common: Algeria.
“Debutante Balls” lecture challenges gender stereotypes
Emma Epstein
Schofield’s performance, sponsored by The Women’s Center, Campus Life, American Culture, PEACE, Students Activist Union, and Women’s Studies program, discussed transgender issues and southern United States culture in a humorous one-man show.
Heeb mag blends Jewish humor and politics
Jamie Rosen
Heeb Editor-in-Chief Josh Neuman spoke about the magazine and its audience to a group of about 30 engaged students in Josselyn dorm March 29. The event was sponsored by the Vassar Jewish Union (VJU) and the Bayit as part of the “Tuesday Nights at the Bayit” program.
Vassar gets supersized: Vassar Greens and Dems welcome Morgan Spurlock
Fabian Arzuga
Award-winning writer and director of Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock will be speaking at the Vassar Chapel Saturday April 9. He will be giving the Keynote Address at 1:30 p.m. for the Vassar Greens’ annual Earth Week that runs from Saturday April 9 to Saturday April 16.
Most famous for his debut as director, producer and star in Super Size Me, Spurlock has, since the film’s premiere in January 2004, concerned himself with the films ultimate goal—the current “obesity epidemic,” especially among children in the United States.
Zailckas’ Smashed tells a familiar college tale
Molly Finkelstein
Have you ever gotten drunk? If you’re a college student, which the majority of us here at Vassar are, the answer is most likely yes. Apparently that makes you worthy of writing a book and actually getting people to buy it.
Sin City shines as it redefines comic cinematography
Julia Hawes
Watching Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller’s Sin City is a little like watching a film noir of the 1940s.
Louis XIV creates a raunchy revival
Mike Newmark
Listening to Louis XIV’sdebut, The Best Little Secrets Are Kept (released March 22, 2005), should provoke two reactions. The first is, “My God, this is crude.” Lyrically, it’s about as profane as it can get without creating a national crisis (though it’ll make your mom blush).
WVKR Monday Mug Night presents TV Carnage
Freddy Deknatel
On April 11, the Mug will open its doors to the worst that TV has to offer. Derrick Beckles has been splicing together bad TV clips for a while now, and his irreverent collages from the boob-tube, titled TV Carnage, have caused a stir.
Vassar grads shine on debut
Miranda Kimball
Say hello to The Bravery. Perhaps you’ve already encountered this five-piece from New York, which was founded by two Vassar grads.
What's to do? Parents' Weekend Edition
Schedule and calendar for parents' weekend 2005: various a capella groups, PHOCUS exhibition, VCTV screening, area events, and more.
Athletes take advantage of JYA experience
Acacia O'Connor
Many students take advantage of study abroad programs, also known as Junior Year Abroad (JYA). But what does JYA mean for varsity athletes committed to their sports and vital to their teams?
Plans for NYC stadium spark debates
Peter Papachronopoulos
Two billion dollars. That’s the astronomical price tag now attached to the project of completing a state-of-the-art stadium for the New York Jets by 2009.
Sports Calendar
Sports calendar for the week of April 8 to 14.
Out of Bounds | For the love of sports: 'Til death do us part?
Gabe Mosca
In this week's Out of Bounds, let's take a look at the impact sports have on relationships. More directly, how much does a person's interest in athletics matter when entering and maintaining a relationship?
Men's lacrosse relies on freshman, team work ethic
Andrea Sorenson
Despite a challenging start to the 2005 season, the coach and players of Vassar’s men’s lacrosse team are optimistic about the season ahead.
Coach’s complaint leads to Title IX changes
Sarah Palermo
Very few people in the country know who Roderick Jackson is, but even fewer would know his name if he hadn’t decided to stand up for not only his own rights, but those of the girls’ basketball team he coached at Ensley High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
Backpage Calendar
Events calendar for the week of April 8 to April 14, plus some warnings for parents' day weekend.
Parent’s Weekend Spectacular: Lil’ Geniuses
Backpage child psychology correspondents David, Molly, and India didn’t get to be the parenting experts they are today without any training. They learned the hard way as the first three contestants in the MacArthur Foundation’s “Lil’’ Genius Grant” Competition for Achievment in Child-Rearing.
FLLAC exhibit explores issues of temporality
Marcella Veneziale
Beginning April 8, Time and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, the largest exhibit of 2005, will be on display at the Frances Lehman Loeb Center.
