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April 28, 2006
Katie Paul
In a set of meetings on Sunday, April 16, two students challenged the validity of the Vassar Student Assocation (VSA) spring 2006 elections conducted on Tuesday, April 18.
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With the end of this semester comes the end of College President Fran Fergusson’s 20-year tenure at Vassar. The upcoming transition to a new leader provides an opportunity for students to reflect on how Fergusson has shaped the College.
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Joshua Goodman
With Founder’s Day less than ten days away, final preparations are underway for the annual celebration. The Founder’s Day Committee is trying to ensure that all events go as planned as they make the best of a tight financial situation.
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Finally, the end is in sight. While you may not remember most of the school year, the most important music is probably still readily accessible on your hard drive. Here are the ten albums that made a difference this school year.
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Danny Fahey
The Vassar men’s tennis team played its last season under the tutelage of Head Coach Roman Czula in the spring of 2005. After taking the 2005-2006 season off, Czula announced that he would retire and would not be coaching the 2006-2007 season. Czula will not disappear from Vassar Athletics entirely, as he will return from his year-long hiatus to the position as Head of the Life and Fitness Department and a professor in the Physical Education Department.
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It’s almost graduation—time to try leaving Vassar for the year (or forever). But before you can go, you must complete all the tasks on the board. Be sure to watch out for Security! Good luck getting out!
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Josh Ferguson
Vassar students are working with Poughkeepsie community immigration activists to organize a May 1 march in support of the millions of undocumented workers in the United States. The march is set to coincide with nationwide rallies protesting anti-immigrant sentiments and a boycott.
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Joe Rozek
On Sunday, April 23, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) unanimously passed a resolution supporting Counseling and Assistance in Response to Rape and Exploitive Sexual Activity (CARES) and Sexual Abuse and Violence Prevention (SAVP).
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Hayley Tsukayama
Heated discussion over the “KryStal” party, hosted by Queer Coalition of Vassar College (QCVC), stirred the student and faculty communities this past week. The controversy stemmed from the party’s name, which some felt was disrespectful to the ongoing struggle with methamphetamines faced by much of the country’s gay community.
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John Palmer
The Publication Task Force presented its proposal for the Vassar Student Association (VSA) by-laws to the student body in an open meeting Wednesday, April 19. The Task Force, composed of nine students who have met weekly since November 2005, did not propose any specific censorship procedures but did outline procedures to address offensive content printed in VSA-sponsored publications.
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Ian Saxine
Starting out this column, I remember worrying that I would run out of things to write about after my first three submissions, spread over six weeks. Looking back, that seems funny, considering that now I write every week, and still find myself bumping up against the upper reaches of my allotted word count.
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Andrew Block
Ask yourself if this sounds familiar: “I’m not a racist, but...” Following the ellipsis is a statement that criticizes anti-racist efforts, but then fails to show any actual commitment to improving them. The “I’m not a racist, but...” (INARB) discourse discourages anti-racist work, encourages political complacency, and thereby supports the existing systems of racism that so define our lives.
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The on-line posting of book lists would make it easier for students to find out what books they need. Moreover, it would save students money. Posting the book list online would greatly benefit those who spend hundreds of dollars on textbooks every semester.
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John Palmer
President Frances Daly Fergusson has made news since arriving on campus in 1986.
The Miscellany News talked with Fergusson on April 25, 2006 to reflect on the last 20 years of
Miscellany News coverage. Fergusson is concluding her final school year at the College.
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Acacia O'Connor
President Fran Fergusson has often been lauded for her campaigns to renovate and construct buildings that improve the College campus. The piece-by-piece restoration of Vassar’s buildings and grounds led by Fergusson will continue up until her departure at the end of this term.
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Hayley Tsukayama
As the current Chairman of the Vassar College Board of Trustees, Van Demark has made a quiet name for himself as a humble and hard-working man. As we celebrate the Fergusson years, students should be thinking about the Van Demark years as well. As Board Chair, Van Demark has worked with the College for 22 years.
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Emma Esptein
While matriculation confirmation will continue to stream into the Admissions Office for weeks after the May 1 postmark deadline, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid David Borus says that Vassar’s newest class is expected to be a promising group.
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Sarah Brown
During the past academic year, the Sustainability Committee has been trying to transform the campus into one that is more energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly. The Committee, which meets every other Friday at 12 p.m. in the Jade Parlor, was created this year with the intention of providing a forum for students and administrators to devise ways to instigate positive environmental changes at Vassar.
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Lauren Sutherland
Blegen House and the Queer Coalition of Vassar College (QCVC) welcomed Vassar alum Kiana Moore ’02 to campus on Thursday, April 20. Moore, a transsexual currently working for a Hollywood production company as well as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), delivered a lecture entitled “Lifetime Transitions: One Transsexual’s Story.”
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Matthew Leung
Public computer clusters are popular on college campuses. A common question that arises among users is: after accessing password-protected sites on a public computer, is it possible for someone to access your account if you close the browser window but forget to log out?
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David Knowles
Max McCurdy is waging war on a toy drum machine, and the drum machine is losing. Badly. Its guts lie strewn about on the table in front of him, and as he rips out the machine’s plastic-coated wiring and reattaches it to the circuit board, it lets out a high-pitched screech.
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Mike Newmark
A review of
The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living by The Streets.
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Marcella Veneziale
The Vassar experience at the center of a new Fred Durst film is an unfamiliar one for many students. Various film websites, as well as
Variety magazine, have described the soon-to-be-filmed
The Education of Charlie Banks as the story of a Vassar student who receives a visit from “the scariest kid from his old New York neighborhood”
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Rachel Pittenger
“The five D's of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge,” said Patches O’Houlihan, the gruff coach from the movie
Dodgeball. O’Houlihan knew a thing or two about the art of the game, but plenty of Vassar students showed up to the Daisy Chain tournament on April 21 to prove that they could also master the fundamentals.
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Jimmy McCumber
One freshman who has distinguished himself as a future star of the relatively young Vassar men’s tennis team is Jeremy Rosen ’09. Rosen was recognized as Liberty League Rookie of the Week on April 17.
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Steve Buonfiglio
It rained last weekend. It rained a lot. It was supposed to rain even more than it did. So I watched
Jumanji and
Twister instead of watching Kevin You’re Such a Disease and W.E.B. and da Boyz play softball.
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