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April 21, 2006
Katie Paul
In a campus-wide e-mail sent late Sunday evening, the VSA Council and Board of Elections wrote that the change to paper ballots was made because “the VSA elections software continues to malfunction as a result [of] the shift onto a new server and the hacking of the VSA server earlier this year.”
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Last week’s Vassar Student Association (VSA) elections broke the norm of the past four years with a return to paper ballots. The return to paper ballots is a welcome change. But unfortunately, the campus was notified of the switch to paper ballots less than 48 hours before voting was to begin. While the VSA should be commended for making the switch in time to hold elections, the cut-off for testing the electronic voting system should have been earlier.
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Sarah Brown
April 20, affectionately called “4/20” by those who celebrate it, is considered the holiest day in cannabis culture. Although smoking marijuana is illegal almost everywhere in the United States (some areas of California allow medicinal use), 4/20 celebrations are prevalent on many college campuses nationwide.
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Walter Padilla
The semester-old FWA (Future Waitstaff of America) is now in the rehearsal stages for Laurence O’Keefe’s
Bat Boy: The Musical, with story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming. Based on a
Weekly World News article,
Bat Boy is a modern rock musical whose central character, a half-boy, half-bat, must overcome the prejudices and dangers in the small town of Hope Falls, VA, where a caring family takes him in.
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Danney Fahey, Acacia O'Connor
From her seat in a crowd of 200 people, Vassar squash Coach Jane Parker watched England’s Tania Bailey defeat New Zealand’s Shelley Kitchen in the final of the Women’s International Squash Player’s Association (WISPA) tournament.
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Hayley Tuskayama
After revising the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Constitution, the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) has begun to overhaul the document’s by-laws.
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Lauren Sutherland
On Tuesday, April 18, the Vassar chapter of Democracy Matters: Students for Clean Elections hosted a panel discussion entitled “Progressive Politics and Clean Elections,” which included various political personalities such as the New Paltz Mayor Jason West. The discussion focused on campaign finance reform as a means of bringing important national issues to the forefront of the democratic process.
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Ian Saxine
Normally I’m not a big fan of reality TV. But when I saw a commercial for a modern “black like me” conceptual show set in present-day Los Angeles, I was intrigued.I watched the first episode of the six-part series mostly out of curiosity...
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Andrew Block
By creating a resource center and studies program dedicated to social justice, the College would augment students’ academic experience at Vassar, while enabling them to become more involved in community building activity.
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Julia Fiore, Katie Mae Unruhe
The recent Duke University lacrosse scandal has spurred many discussions around the Vassar campus. It is a particularly compelling issue for us because we grew up in Durham and are very familiar with the resentment many Durham residents hold towards Duke and its students. This reminded us of the sentiments some Vassar students have towards Poughkeepsie.
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John Delap
From September 2001 through May 2005, I served on the Student Advisory Committee on the Evaluation of Teaching (SACET). The committee was charged with writing letters of recommendation relaying an affirmative or negative position regarding a particular candidate’s reappointment or promotion.
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Emma Epstein
Student government has existed in some form at Vassar since 1868. Since then, it has changed with the times, adopting different names and constitutions, and undergoing two complete overhauls. But no matter what troubles arose, elections have been held every year.
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Josh Goodman
For students participating in Vassar’s Inter-Group Dialogues, the final ceremony on May 4 will conclude a semester of challenging discourse. Vassar students involved in the spring dialogues this year are taking up the challenging issues of “Gender Realities” as well as a dialogue between black and Jewish students.
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Martha Knauf
Main House sponsored its first “Communiday” on Saturday, April 15. The event was meant to stimulate dialogue between Vassar students and community members about the divide between Poughkeepsie residents and Vassar students. While the day was meant to draw residents of both Vassar and Poughkeepsie, attendance was surprising low.
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Matthew Leung
Streaming video and audio on-line often costs a lot of money, as it requires a specialized streaming server. However, with an alternative video-streaming method called progressive download, it is possible to use Vspace to stream videos in Windows Media or QuickTime format.
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Emma Epstein
On April 23, 1984, then-Vassar President Virginia B. Smith debated U.S. Representative Gerald Solomon (R, N.Y.) on the televised “MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour” about the constitutionality of his proposed amendment, which denied federal financial aid to male students who had not registered for the draft.
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Mike Newmark
A review of the new Built to Spill album
You in Reverse.
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Jimmy McCumber
Dominating both offensively and defensively this year, Garrett King ’08 has been a key player on the men’s rugby team. The team’s spring season is off to a great start, having won five games in a row after opening the year with two losses to top British teams over spring break.
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Rachel Pittenger
Look out world, here comes Vassar Ultimate Frisbee! The women’s A-Team was one of three to advance to the regional play-offs as a result of their exceptional performance in the April 14 and April 15 Metro New York Women’s Sectionals. The frisbee players, also known as the Boxing Nuns, pulled off big victories in the early rounds of the tournament, which was held at the Vassar Farm and Prentiss Field.
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Juliana Kiyan
The Vassar Student Association (VSA) spring 2006 elections results were tallied by hand on Wednesday, April 19. Students selected the 2006-2007 VSA executive board, Class of 2007, 2008, and 2009 Councils, house team leadership, Judicial Board positions, and Committee representatives.
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