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November 18, 2005
The formation of a student task force is a step in the right direction to insure that Vassar’s health services are meeting student needs, but there are immediate problems that demand attention, such as the lack of 24-hour student care.
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Hayley Tsukayama
On Nov. 6, the Vassar Students Association (VSA) created a new task force to look into creating guidelines for student publications.
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Nate Kimball
This year’s combined Diwali Eid dinner, hosted by SASA was an unforseen success. The dinner celebrated Diwali, which is a Hindu New Year holiday that celebrates the hope of success in the coming year.
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Freddy Deknatel
During her lecture on campus, Amy Goodman spoke extensively on the importance of non-corporate, independent media outlets, including Vassar's own WVKR.
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Sarah Palermo
Four freshmen, four sophomores, five juniors and one lone senior have combined to form the 2005-2006 Vassar men’s basketball team. That may sound like a young and inexperienced team, but they are ready and working hard to prove themselves otherwise.
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Molly Finkelstein
There’s only one group of super heroes who can save Thanksgiving...
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Juliana Kiyan
More than 115 students, administrators, faculty, and other members of the College community gathered in the Retreat on Nov. 9 for an anti-racism rally held by a group of students called Students Allied for Equity and Justice (SAEJ).
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Ariel Schwartz
The New York University (NYU) graduate assistant union began the strike they had been threatening for months on Nov. 9. The decision to strike came after an August ruling from the National Labor Relations Board saying that universities are not legally obliged to recognize their graduate unions.
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Asya Magazinnik
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Vassar students went to the polls to elect representatives to the Dutchess County Legislature. They cast their ballots in spite of the nation-wide debate over the right of college students to vote in local elections.
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Nate Kimball
On Monday, Nov. 14, 30 people looking for a good time and a reason for procrastination gathered in the student’s building to honor a growing Vassar College tradition: the art of contra dancing.
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Sarah Brown
Next Monday, Nov. 21, Hunger Action, in conjunction with the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and Dutchess Outreach, Inc., will be sponsoring their annual Hunger Awareness Fast activities. This event represents the culmination of Hunger Awareness month, four weeks of events in November aimed to generate more consciousness about issues of hunger in the Vassar and surrounding community.
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Mike Newmark
The Martians have only been together for three months, but the band members are no strangers to music or to each other.
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Marcella Veneziale
Not many art critics would hazard to answer the daunting question, “What is art for now?” But Peter Schjeldahl, resident art critic of
The New Yorker, plans to do just that in his Nov. 17 lecture entitled “What Art Is For Now.”
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Mike Newmark
Sliver extracts the “best” songs from last year’s overblown box set and adds three new tracks as bait: “Sappy,” a demo of “Come As You Are,” and “Spank Thru” from the famous you-know-what demo tape. Are the three new
Sliver tracks worth shelling out 15 bucks for a batch of songs that most Nirvana diehards already own? This reviewer doesn’t think so.
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Sarah Palermo
This past weekend, according to women’s cross country coach James McCowan, “the team really shined” at the NCAA Division III Atlantic Regional Cross Country Championships and one runner in particular capped off a “perfect senior year.” Tri-captain Elizabeth Hixson ’06 claims that while she had a really good race, finishing seventy-first of 207 runners, the team’s tenth place finish is just as important to her.
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Ross Weingarten
The NFL season is more than halfway over, and it has been quite a memorable first half. There are a number of remarkable story lines worth following.
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Steven Buonfiglio
Here’s everything you’ve always wanted to know about IMs, but were afraid to ask. Or at least everything you need to know about last week’s competitions.
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Lauren Sutherland
The disinclination of Vassar students to visit the Baldwin Medical Center has become a concern among students and administrators, and has prompted the VSA to approve a new task force that will examine the potential sources of this reluctance.
The student task force, which will be headed by Noyes President Chelsea Backer ’07 and Ezra Markowitz ’07, will be comprised of representatives from a number of organizations, including CHOICE and the Office of Health Education. The task force will address concerns regarding Baldwin’s administration, its staff and the EMS system, as well as widespread feelings about health services in general.
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November 11, 2005
On Nov. 2, 2005, Vice President for College Relations Susan Dekrey sent out an e-mail notifying students of the proposed $11 billion cut to federal student loan programs and urging students to take action.
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Ian Saxine
World Wars I and II have also taught America the lesson that it cannot afford to ignore the world’s problems and that the U.S. military, at least for the time being, is a necessary tool in keeping the world safe.
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Max Schmookler
Recruiters across the country are feeling the backdraft from the increasingly unpopular Iraq war. With a highly publicized and steadily climbing death count many potential recruits are measuring their patriotism—and their $20,000 signing bonus—against their lives. The result has been plummeting recruitment figures.
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Brenna Gilbert
The pre-registration system, in its randomness, mirrors the lottery that is life. But for $40,000 a year, we should be able to take each and every class that inspires us.
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Changes in grants, loans to affect hundreds of students
Weintana Abraha
In the next few weeks, federal decisions on student loans may make students and others take notice.
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Marcella Veneziale
This weekend, Philaletheis performs
But Why Bump Off Barnaby?, a comedy of errors which spoofs the popular 1940s murder mystery genre.
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Deborah Temkin
Between preparing, grading and holding class, serving on committees, completing their required research and being available for student advisees, professors often feel like they have little time for their lives beyond Main Gate.
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Sarah Farr
Recently, suggestions for conserving energy have been popping up around Vassar. The tips range from turning off energy-consuming sceen savers to limiting the use of water in the shower.
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Stacey Mack
Vassar’s prime cross country athletes are preparing for the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships.
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Molly Finkelstein
What's a motto? Nothing, what's a motto with
you?!
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Ariel Schwartz
New York University’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee started to strike on Wednesday, Nov. 9. According to CBS News, close to 500 graduate assistants assembled on Wednesday morning in front of NYU’s Bobst Library at Washington Square.
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Nate Kimball
By next week, the residents of Strong House and the quad dorms will have something to be glad about. The construction projects on the dorms, which have been ongoing since the start of term in September are wrapping up.
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Ilyse Kramer
“Eyes Wide Open: Beyond Fear—Towards Hope, an exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, will be displayed on the Alumnae House Lawn Nov. 15 and 16.
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Kyle Nelson
Concerned students brought the plight of caged chickens to King’s attention last semester. 95 percent of the hens laying eggs in this country are caged or battery raised. “The problem is that they are not kept in a humane manner,” said Director of Campus Dining Maureen King.
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Vassar hires variety of instructors for distinct positions
Anita Varma
Different types of professors have different duties on campus. An outline of what each position entails is outlined in the Governance of Vassar College. There are 10 ranks of professors and types of researchers listed, and other faculty positions such as coaches and curator positions are described as well.
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Jen Dixon
In addition to their work in the classroom, Vassar faculty contribute to the intellectual life of the College by pursuing independent research and projects. In order to provide funding for these projects, the Vassar College Committee on Research awards grants twice a year. The most recent application date was Nov 1.
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Emma Epstein
Amy Goodman’s voice comes over airwaves and through television screens as the anchor of “Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report,” a progressive, investigative current events talk show. Today, her voice will reach one more community as she delivers a lecture entitled “Independent Media in a Time of War” in the Villard Room at 5:30 p.m.
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Sarah Brown
Dr. Toby Meltzer spoke at Rockefeller Hall on Saturday, Nov. 5 about his pioneer work in the field of GRS.
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John Palmer
Columbia University journalism professor Sreenath Sreenivasan spoke on the role of South Asians in shaping and creating the American news media in a talk on Nov. 7. The lecture, which was attended by approximately 30 students, was sponsored by the South Asian Students Alliance.
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Band mates injured, manager remains hospitalized
Freddy Deknatel
An auto accident on the New Jersey Turnpike last Friday, Nov. 4, took the life of Mana "China" Nishiura, drummer for the Japanese hard rock band DMBQ. Her DMBQ band mates were all hospitalized, although later released. DMBQ's manager and Panache Magazine creator Michelle Cable remains hospitalized.
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Molly Finkelstein
Ashlee Simpson's self-centered debut
Autobiography was about being in the shadow of her blonder, taller sister, and her many break-ups with Ryan Cabrera. Her sophomore album,
I Am Me, leads me to wonder if Simpson ever does anything but write in her diary.
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Mike Newmark
Descended Like Vultures, Rogue Wave’s second album for Sub Pop, feels tremendously good. The key is its straightforwardness; behind the synthesizers and effects is a batch of confident, well crafted, guitar-led pop songs. There exists a wonderful equilibrium between acoustic and electronic instrumentation, where electronics serve the songs rather than distract us from them.
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Deborah Temkin
When my father asked me if I wanted to go see a preview performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical,
The Woman in White, I jumped at the chance. After all, it is Andrew Lloyd Webber—the composer responsible for
Cats and
Phantom of the Opera, among several other staple Broadway musicals. If Webber puts his name on a musical, I assumed it must be good. However, I was sorely wrong.
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Loss, learning in first fencing match
Amy Boggs
Heralding the start of the NCAA fencing season, the Big One lives up to its name. I walked into Smith’s gymnasium for my first fencing match with wide eyes and a sinking stomach.
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Sarah Palermo
Matt Wise ’07
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Acacia O'Connor
This past weekend the Vassar women's volleyball team overcame early season trials and late surges from league rivals to secure an unprecedented victory for the fifth year running at the Liberty League Championships at St. Lawrence University.
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Steve Buonfiglio
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Western Conference still strong
Ross Weingarten
The leaves are beginning to change color and the air is getting crisp. That can only mean one thing, right? No, not more homework and late nights at the Mug—basketball! Yes, the NBA season is upon us, and I don't know about you, but I’m excited.
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Jen Dixon
The process of hiring new faculty members for the College typically requires multiple rounds of applications and interviews with students, faculty, and the Office of the Dean of Faculty. When an academic department decides that it needs a new faculty member, the vacant position is first authorized by the Dean of Faculty’s Office.
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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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