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November 04, 2005
Lauren Sutherland
On Friday, Nov. 4, the SAU will be hosting a presentation entitled “Echan Los Patrones,” or “Fire the Boss,” which will discuss workers' efforts to assume control of Argentina”s factories.
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Nate Kimball
This year, the United States has seen alarming jumps in energy prices as the price of natural gas has skyrocketed more than 50 percent and electricity in many areas is seeing a 30 percent increase over last year. This has posed some short term issues for Vassar’s energy budget.
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Events surrounding the war in Iraq have decreased with time, following the national trend.
The Miscellany News comments on keeping this discussion alive.
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an interview with Death from Above 1979
Sam Bloch
Jesse Keeler talks about the duo's musical pedigree, lack of a rock and roll lifestyle, and their ignorance of college life.
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Recent incidents raise questions about group initiations
Sarah Palermo
National news reports on hazing shine a bright light into a dark corner of college and high school cultures. Are such events happening at Vassar?
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Wealthy alums worry about ability to survive blow to time-honored ritual
Yale is banning drinking games from tailgate parties at this year’s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime.
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Hayley Tsukayama
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Poughkeepsie residents will vote for several positions in the town council, including Town Supervisor and six Town Board seats. Vassar College and the Arlington community are part of the sixth ward. Among the candidates for councilman of the sixth ward is Vassar physics professor James Challey.
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Juliana Kiyan
The Poughkeepsie Institute received the 2005 America’s Community Partners of the Year award from the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). The Poughkeepsie Institute is a team-taught, interdisciplinary and intercollegiate course that focuses on community field work.
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Ariel Schwartz
John Palmer
This year’s Halloween party was the first that students had the opportunity to buy tickets before the event in an effort to track attendance and facilitate admission. Six hundred presale tickets were sold, according to Associate Director of Security Kim Squillace.
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Sarah Farr
The Campus Health Organization for Information, Counseling, and Education (CHOICE) is planning an event that hopes to get Vassar talking about sex. On Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. in Rocky 200, the organization will hold a panel entitled “Sex: It is a Laughing Matter.”
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Sarah Brown
On Thursday, Oct. 27 Colonel Oak de Berg and Colonel Joellen de Berg spoke at Taylor Hall about their experiences in the military.
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Students, administration work to accommodate religion
Kyle Nelson
Whether it was its abnormally late date or its always inopportune midweek occurrence, the Jewish High Holy Days caused a stir this year as both faculty and students struggled during one of the most stressful times of the academic year: mid-term exams.
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Nate Kimball
Erin Schulman currently teaches a four-week dream-seeing class. Dr. Montague Ullman, Professor Schulman’s own professor, designed this course. It is a four-week program in which students meet once a week to discuss their dreams and enter into what Schulman calls the “intutive, learning aspect of our life.”
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Brenna Gilbert
Vassar’s school store serves as a greater symbolic role than many of us realize. Yet the other day when I went down to buy a sweatshirt for my little brother and a book for class, I was shocked to find that the Vassar our school store pedals these days is a problematic place, reinforcing gender stereotypes and degrading the intelligence of the Vassar community.
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Graydon Gordion
Traditionally, “federalism” has been most strongly associated with the legal thinking of the American right. Federalism is the constitutional principle which separates power between the state and federal governments and limits those powers exercisable by the federal government by specifically enumerating them in the constitution.
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Max Shmookler
many of our elected officials are pushing, month after month, to expand the overcrowded Dutchess County jail. For Republican lawmakers and their allies in the sheriff’s office, the only way to alleviate overcrowding is to expand the jail facility. But this way of reasoning—from overcrowded jail to bigger building—obscures the other legitimate, cost-effective, and socially responsible alternatives to a multi-multi-million dollar construction project.
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Marcella Veneziale
Although a late-blooming author, Augusten Burroughs has been writing his entire life. He is the author of
Sellevision,
Dry,
Running with Scissors, and the recent paperback release
Magical Thinking. His books consist of series of anecdotes from his personal experiences strung together.
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Jake Friedman
DMBQ, a peerless Japanese band, will share the Mug’s stage this Sunday, Nov. 6 with metal band An Albatross, venerable soul singer King Coleman, and Vassar’s own noise duo the Glitter Pals.
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Jake Friedman
King Coleman released his first hit, “Mashed Potatoes,” in 1951. With hits on Dade and Sylvia Records from the 50s and 60s, King Coleman is a living legend. Nov. 6 will be his first performance at Vassar.
The Miscellany News talked with King Coleman from his home in Florida last week.
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Mike Newmark
Hypermagic Mountain, the title isn’t ironic, but spot-on. Named after the “X-treme” theme park of almost the same name,
Hypermagic Mountain is a dozen roller coasters entangled with the carts missing each other only by the hairs on your head.
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Army stands between Brewers and eighth title
Acacia O'Connor
The Vassar women’s rugby players are no strangers to being hit, tackled and thrown around. The upcoming weeks, however, will require all of that toughness and more, as the women are tested in the National Rugby Union Championship Tournament.
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Sarah Palermo
Francesco Galetto ’06 isn’t out to set or break records, or even to try and become Athlete of the Week. In fact, goals like that are so far out of his range of sight, he was very surprised to find himself tracked down for comment.
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Stacey Mack
Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. That date doesn’t appear to hold any special significance except as the end of October Break. However, for myself and fellow Vassar’s swimming and diving team members, it marked a new beginning. On this day Vassar’s men’s and women’s teams opened their seasons against William Patterson in our very own natatorium.
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Asya Magazinnik
On Oct. 8, an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude struck Pakistan, causing almost 70,000 deaths and widespread damages that may require a decade to repair. The shocks of the earthquake reached India and Afghanistan as well.
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