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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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March 10, 2006
Marcella Veneziale
Sedaris will be the Alex Krieger '95 Memorial Fund speaker for 2006.
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March 03, 2006
Lauren Sutherland
The longstanding contention surrounding the New York State Department of Transportation’s Raymond Avenue reconstruction has recently re-emerged with the approach of the project’s first phase, scheduled to begin this summer.
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Janine Parziale
The wind urged me beyond the brink, but my legs were stable as I admired the view from the roof. I became aware of the unique sense of space and design that exists within the architecture of Vassar.
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The All College Day mural is meant to be an open space for students to write grievances, words of praise, and general thoughts about the College community. Although the mural has the potential to bring about positive discussion, in its current state it does not do so effectively.
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Acacia O'Connor
The behavior of several fans at the Feb. 10 Vassar College men’s basketball game was called into question by the officiating referees.
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Molly Finkelstein
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Katie Paul
Newly appointed Lathrop House President Kyle Giunta ’08 submitted his resignation to the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council on Sunday, Feb. 26, making him the second Lathrop House President to resign this semester.
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John Palmer
The Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council resolved on Sunday Feb. 26 to begin a process to review a new revised Constitution for the governing body of the students.
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Fabian Arzuaga
The Office of Finance and Administration e-mailed students on Feb. 24, alerting them that the comprehensive fee for the 2006-2007 academic year would be increased to $44,160, a 5.9 percent rise from this year’s cost.
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Juliana Kiyan
Vassar’s fundraising efforts for 2005 totaled $27 million, as reported by the Council for Aid to Education (CAE).
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Ilyse Kramer
On Sunday, Feb. 26, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council passed a resolution on Ethnic Studies. Students who proposed the resolution are members of the Ethnic Studies Coalition (ESC), which formed to address the lack of Ethnic Studies and faculty of color at Vassar.
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From Finance and Administration to Fran’s front office
Sarah Brown
In her 29 years working at Vassar, Ilene Cooke has established herself as an integral presence in the College, yet her relationship with Vassar began far before she was employed here.
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Matt Leung
The amount of sensitive and personal data that we create on our computers increases as our reliance on computers increases: letters, embarrassing pictures, stories, financial data, and so on. Most people use folk methods to manage data on our computer, which goes something like this: if you want to delete sensitive data, delete it from the recycle bin, and it’s gone forever.
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Ian Saxine
After being inspired by the show of solidarity many European newspapers displayed in reprinting the Muhammad cartoons over which Danish embassies were attacked, I was dismayed to read that Austria is throwing a man in jail for a pair of speeches he made 17 years ago.
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Mike Newmark
A review of the Jay Dee album
Donuts.
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Nate Kimball
Hineini, a documentary about current Brown University senior Shulamit Izen’s fight to start a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) at the New Jewish High School of Greater Boston, is much more than a simple coming-out tale. It is a story of the moral quandaries faced by many teenagers and speaks to everyone who has ever confronted this barrier.
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Sam Bloch
When Alex Turner, lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys, begs bands to “get off the bandwagon” in “Fake Tales of San Francisco,” it undermines the appeal of his charming band of 20-year-olds.
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Sarah Palermo
With only two games under their belt this March, the Brewers will be heading down to Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland to face teams that have already played in more than ten games.
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Jimmy McCumber
Vassar’s swim teams enjoyed successful seasons this year, with broken records broken on both teams, and good showings in the Liberty League and New York state meets.
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Rachel Pittenger
Jared Mayer ’07 won a decisive match against his Manhattanville opponent in Vassar’s first tennis team match of the spring season, driving the team to a 7-0 victory. As the third-ranked singles player, Mayer’s 6-1, 6-3 match helped bring the team’s record to an even 1-1 this season.
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Acacia O'Connor
Where were you at 4 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25? If you are a member of the Vassar College Track Club, you were running laps around Main building in the bitter cold.
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Steve Buonfiglio
Where does passion live? This is a question that has seemingly been answered by the good folks over in Torino, Italy. We in Poughkeepsie (P-Town, the P possibly being for Passion) beg to differ. What can we offer to support such a supposition? See below, my friends, see below.
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After Wyclef bill, ViCE budget cannot support spring concert
Freddy Deknatel
Picking up the tab for Wyclef Jean and Blackalicious’ Feb. 11 performance in Walker Field House will prohibit Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE) from organizing what would have been the third annual ViCE-Versa concert on the eve of Founder’s Day this April.
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