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March 31, 2006
Katie Paul
The Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council resolved on Sunday, March 26 to postpone their vote on the Constitutional Review Committee’s (CRC) revisions to the VSA Constitution. The vote, originally scheduled for April 2, will now take place on April 9, allowing time for additional fine-tuning before the changes become final.
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In recent weeks, newspaper headlines and television segments have drawn attention to protests around the globe, from Paris to Los Angeles to Minsk. These protests provide an opportunity to look at what issues inspire people to take to the streets with voices of opposition.
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Kyle Nelson
In the tradition of After Hours and Jazz Night, the College has started a Community Coffee House. The Community Coffee House, which debuted on Thursday, Feb. 16 provides evenings of casual relaxation between class, work, and whatever else students and faculty have in their busy schedules.
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Marcella Veneziale
Vassar’s Greenhaven Prison Program, directed by Professor of Religion and Africana Studies Lawrence Mamiya, includes the second annual Greenhaven Prison art show, which features the work of both current and former inmates.
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Justin Bernstein
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) fencing championships have no Sweet Sixteen or Final Four. Two weeks before the March 18-19 meet in Houston, I qualified, and balanced my time between training and writing my thesis.
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Ilyse Kramer
In an effort to explore the often complicated duality of the Asian American identity, Vassar’s Asian Students Alliance (ASA) will hold a conference entitled “Asian Americans: Exploring the Other End of the Hyphen” from March 31 to April 2.
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Fabian Arzuaga
Earlier this month, six alumnae from the University and nine undergraduate students from Tulane’s women’s college filed a lawsuit against the school in an attempt to prevent the redistribution of the endowment of Tulane’s 120-year-old women’s college, Newcomb College, and its consolidation with Tulane’s other undergraduate programs.
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Ian Saxine
In affairs of international diplomacy, there is a time for compromise and a time for standing ground. In the case of Iran acquiring nuclear technology, compromise is a bad idea. No amount of dancing around the issue could hide the fact that Iran can’t be trusted with anything that can possibly be converted into a nuclear weapon.
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Andrew Block
Vassar’s curriculum provides many opportunities to understand traditional forms of power and oppression—be it racism, sexism, homophobia, or otherwise. Yet, despite the benefits of courses on social power dynamics, entirely too many students pass through the College without taking any such classes.
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Amy Dowley
The ability for money to dominate politics is destroying the fundamental framework of our democracy. This issue was at the heart of the sixth annual Democracy Matters summit in Albany, held Feb. 17 to Feb. 19. Members of Vassar’s group gathered together with other activists from around the country to educate themselves about the ways in which important political issues are affected by campaign donations.
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Sarah Brown
While some college students balk at the idea of cooperative-style living, the 20 residents of the Dexter M. Ferry House have embraced the challenge of meshing their domestic lives with those of others.
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Matthew Leung
George Orwell’s concept of Big Brother would not be possible without computers. As computers become more integrated with the Internet, Big Brother is becoming a reality. Not many people have a phobia of computers, but considering the Big Brother’s surveillance tools are becoming accessible even to users with little computing knowledge, people’s confidence in computers is not well-founded either.
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Emma Epstein
In November of 1990, 26 black seniors signed a statement to protest the neglect of their concerns by the Commencement Committee.
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Mike Newmark
A review of the new singles-collection from Stereolab
Fab Four Suture.
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Paul Babin
The Friends of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center will screen
The Agony and the Ecstasy on Thursday, March 30 as part of the semester-long Art Film Series. For students who have only a superficial knowledge of Michelangelo, the film is an invaluable introduction.
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Amanda Bates
Stories about the future that are actually about the present are not in short supply. The sci-fi film
V for Vendetta takes a page from such narratives, presenting a commentary on the current political climate. Despite its entertainment value, though,
V for Vendetta is not executed well enough to be as thought-provoking as it aspires to be.
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Kyle Nelson
There has rarely been more parity in a Division I men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketballtournament than there was this year. After all, there is not a single one-seed left in the Final Four. In a tourney where defense, not offense, has decided games, this year is up for grabs, and each team is a potential contender.
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Steve Buonfiglio
You’re back! Or if you fell asleep on your stomach on the beach—damn, your back! Whatever the case, Welcome to Spring 2006!
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Daisy Chain processional remains, Senior Councils collaborate
Anita Varma
After several months of meetings, proposals, and discussions, the African Violets will march in the 2006 Commencement processional. Traditionally, the Daisy Chain has processed to start and conclude Commencement and Convocation, and the African Violets have not marched.
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