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November 17, 2006
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“Heathens All!” The Vassar College Thanksgiving Play
Betsy Rossberg
Ah, Thanksgiving, that holiday of meat, gravy, cranberries, and re-runs of The O.C. and Grey’s Anatomy. Doesn’t it just make you want to break out into song? Songs about reparations for the Native Americans for all the turkey the fat white Less-Native Americans ate at that feast of thanks and giving many years ago? That’s what we thought.
Israel at Heart brings new outlook to basketball
Lucas Mann
Filing into Jewett parlor, the players from Israel at Heart were almost indistinguishable from the Vassar men’s basketball team. The two teams of tall kids with athletic gaits and hooded sweatshirts didn’t look much different from one another.
Sports Briefs
Fencing team gets the inside edge
Emma Carmichael
The Vassar College fencing teams advanced toward their season goals with a set of victories on Sunday, Nov. 12. The women won over Cleveland State University, Marist College, City College of New York, and Sacred Heart University. The men’s team swept Cleveland State, Marist, Sacred Heart and Yeshiva University.
Ultimate soars to early successes
Elizabeth Pacheco
Even as the last of the fall leaves disappear, Vassar’s men and women’s ultimate frisbee teams are continuing to practice out on Noyes Circle. Although the team practices co-ed, the men and women’s teams each competed separately in two tournaments this fall.
PHOCUS on photographers in new student exhibition
Lauren Tennenbaum
PHOCUS, Vassar’s student photography club, is currently sponsoring an exhibit featuring works by its members, curated by students Elizabeth Lewis ’07 and Faith Holland ’07. Fifty-seven photographs taken by 17 different student photographers are currently displayed in the Faculty Commons.
ViCE Jazz founder returns to play at Matthew’s Mug
Mally Andersen
What goes around will come around when ViCE Jazz co-founder Stefan Zeniuk ’02 returns to Vassar to play at Matthew’s Mug. Zeniuk plays tenor saxophone in the band Gato Loco, and has returned to his alma mater several times to play in the Mug with different jazz groups.
Anna Kisselgoff lectures about appreciating dance
Liza Darwin
“Dean of Dance” and chief New York Times dance critic Anna Kisselgoff, gave a multimedia presentation on appreciating dance on Wednesday, Nov. 8 in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater.
Gender identity: More than a checked box
Lauren Sutherland
New York City took steps toward adopting a more inclusive definition of gender on Oct. 30, when the Board of Health concluded its final hearing regarding a proposal to allow individuals to change the sex indicated on their birth certificate without the formerly required proof of sex reassignment surgery.
Enviromentor | Earth-friendly biodiesel fuels machinery
As fuel prices across the country shot up to well over $3 per gallon this summer, people began looking for ways to reduce what they were spending at the pump. I had heard about the growing market of biodiesel and decided to give it a shot..
This Week at Vassar in 1973
On Nov. 14, 1973, three Terrace Apartments were mysteriously egged and pelted with garbage early in the morning.
Vassar Technology Today | Battle of the bandwidth: Shaping Vassar’s network
Matthew Leung
Vassar’s connection to the Internet uses a T3 line that has a bandwidth of 45 megabits per second (Mbps) for each outgoing and incoming Internet connection. At this speed, while the outgoing connection is almost never used to full capacity, the incoming connection is usually full, especially in the late afternoon and evenings.
Students learn how to “Cooke” for the mind, body
Mike Alberti
On Friday, Nov. 10, Vassar Wholistic sponsored a three-hour class called “Mindful Cooking and Eating” at Blegen House. The free class, which was attended by 10 students, was taught by holistic cooking expert Santha Cooke. Another class will be held on Friday, Nov. 17 from 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
Democratic Party Takes House and Senate: Professors comment on what Congress’ shift may mean
After the midterm elections, The Miscellany News asked three professors at Vassar to comment on certain pressing topics for the nation today.
Staff Editorial | Critical discussion missing from VSA decisions
On Sunday, Nov. 12, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council voted to amend Section 1 of the VSA by-laws to create five new committees that will each directly report to one of the five members of the VSA Executive Board.
Eye On America | College sex scandals have Vassar implications
Ross Weingarten
The year 2006 may be remembered as the year of the Democrats. Their stunning success in last week’s midterm elections may reverse the course of the country, changing America’s stance on foreign policy, taxes, and other crucial issues. But there is a much less thought-about, yet important trend that emerged this year: the college sex scandal.
Views On Vassar | College needs to be more environmentally conscious
Tendai Musakwa
Vassar students are intelligent. The cream of their high school classes, they are chosen from all over the world for their reasoning abilities and their exceptional motivation for the betterment of humanity. This is why I’m surprised when I see stoves carelessly left on in dorm kitchens and taps left running in bathrooms.
Object Lessons | Girls Gone Wild co-opts the language of choice
Carolyn Bradley
If you’ve spent any time in an American college bar with TV screens in the last few years, then you are probably familiar with Girls Gone Wild (GGW).
Staff Editorial | Cell number requests troubling
In a letter sent to all Vassar students on Wednesday, Nov. 8, the College requested that students provide the College with their cell phone numbers by returning an enclosed form to the Office of the Registrar.
Letters to the Editor | Yes, we chose to be in Strong
It’s not about the bathrooms—it’s about being able to maintain and preserve a female-empowered space on campus.
Lost tarantula prompts evacuation
Shahreen Saifi
On Friday, Nov. 10, a pterinochilus murinus, a poisonous tarantula, got loose in Davison House. The quad swarmed with disgruntled and terrified students as Davison was evacuated and Campus Security was notified.
ACT OUT looks forward after VSA certification
Nadine Reitman
ACT OUT was officially certified at the Sunday, Nov. 12 Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council meeting, becoming the 114th certified organization and the eighth to be added this academic year. The Council passed certification for ACT OUT with a unanimous vote.
November 16, 2006
Young voters flock to polls for midterm elections
Amanda Melillo
Approximately one out of every four young Americans participated in the 2006 mid-term elections. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, nearly 10 million Americans under the age of 30 showed up at the polls to vote in the midterm elections
VSA creates internal committees
Brian Farkas
On Sunday, Nov. 12 the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council unanimously passed an amendment to its bylaws that created a committee (composed of various Council members) for each of the five members of the VSA Executive Board.
News Briefs
College bars investment tied to Sudan government
Juliana Kiyan
In an Oct. 14 resolution, the Vassar Board of Trustees approved the prohibition of direct investment by the College in 22 companies that are either owned by the Sudanese government or whose business activities perpetuate the genocide against the people of its Darfur region.
