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March 30, 2007
Women’s lacrosse scores Seven Sisters title
Juliana Kiyan and Lauren Sutherland
The formidable Swarthmore team was only one of the adversaries that the Vassar women’s lacrosse team had to face at the semi-final game of the Seven Sisters Tournament on Saturday, March 24.
Overtime | Steroids prevalent in professional sports
Kyle Nelson
In baseball, random testing allows most players to get away with doping; there are enough loopholes in the process that when a guy’s muscles balloon to McGwire-size and he gets caught, the media and the public act like it’s a fluke.
Chikanobu’s nostalgic prints come to FLLAC
Liza Darwin
Japanese woodblock print artist Yoshu Chikanobu explored a wide range of themes during his career, and influenced many international artists during the latter half of the 19th century.
Wesleyan professor to speak on influential American architect
Rachel Pittenger
Famed modern architect Louis Sullivan revolutionized the way Americans thought about buildings at the end of the 19th century.
Zodiac confounds police, viewers
Matthew Poland
David Fincher’s new true-crime drama, Zodiac, which documents the string of murders that terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late ’60s and early ’70s, may just be the antithesis of his earlier thriller Se7en.
Music Box | I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
Mike Newmark
Hip-hop was becoming a tired institution when El-P, Bigg Jus and Mr. Len (under the moniker Company Flow) recorded one of the most stunning hip-hop albums of the ’90s.
Ethnic Studies experts share insights
Sarah Siegel
Ethnic Studies has been one of the most dynamic issues surrounding Vassar curriculum over the past several years.
ACT OUT participates in day of lobbying
Mike Alberti
Last Monday, March 26, ACT OUT and the Vassar College Democrats teamed up to actively raise United States politicians’ awarness of the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Winston brings back sex lectures
Jackson Reeves
If put to the test, how many men would fail to find the clitoris? Some women don’t even know where to find their own. But never fear, Sheri Winston is here.
Two Broads Abroad | Visiting primary sources brings a new level of understanding
Molly Finkelstein
Some people are born dorky, some achieve dorkiness, and some have dorkiness thrust upon them. I’d like to think that maybe this new level of academic dorkiness I have achieved has been thrust upon me and is not my own fault.
Vassar community celebrates childhood
Emma Epstein
Tomorrow, you can go back to the good old days of playing with finger paint and Play-Doh.
Vassar Technology Today | Emphasis on user provides diversity in the digital realm
Matthew Leung
Two boys met in a dark parking lot, embraced and kissed in the video game Bully that was released in October 2006 by Rockstar Vancouver for Sony PlayStation 2.
Yearley to explore use of wandering
Mike Alberti
Stanford University Professor of Philosophy Lee H. Yearley said that he accepted the invitation to deliver the Matthew Vassar lecture on Wednesday April 4.
Staff Editorial |ResLife should not outsource investigations to students
At a small residential college like Vassar, students are expected to be respectful of their residence houses
Eye on America | Moderate Muslims’ voices can help to curb extremist terrorism
Ross Weingarten
Recently, at a checkpoint outside of Baghdad, a car with two men in the front and young children in the back seat approached a group of American and Iraqi soldiers.
Views on Vassar | Policy forbidding employee access to dorms misguided
Tendai Musakwa
The fact that employees (non-teaching staff and faculty) of the College require guest passes to enter dormitories is worrying and unacceptable.
Object Lessons | Lay off Right, we of the Left can intimidate each other just fine
Carolyn Bradley
What’s the matter with the Vassar left? By now, it has become almost a rite of passage for pundits of The Miscellany News to pen a hand-wringing article about the mistreatment of conservative students on campus by liberals.
Letters to the Editor | Killer Coke campaign leaves many students flat
Letters to the Editor | Students can’t decry their Coke and drink it too
GSA Administator Lurita Doan ’79 to face allegations of misconduct
Amanda Melillo
Vassar College trustee Lurita Alexis Doan ’79 made her first appearance at a hearing regarding allegations of misconduct in her role as administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
High cost of higher education in U.S. again subject of scrutiny
Hayley Tsukayama
In a bold move, peer liberal arts institution Davidson College became the first liberal arts college to eliminate the use of loans from its financial aid packages in favor of grants and work-study programs to reduce the amount of debt for undergraduate students.
VSA, ResLife to streamline relationship
Brian Farkas
The structure of House Teams will be significantly changed as of the beginning of the 2007-2008 academic year.
Student arrested for poking around prison with pot
Katie Paul
When Africana Studies major Jessica Kibblewhite ’07 visited a New York State prison to conduct research for her senior theis, she had no idea that she would soon become a part of that research.
Walkouts protest Iraq War anniversary
Shahreen Saifi
The war in Iraq sparked protests at colleges and universities across the country last week as students joined the growing anti-war movement.
