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September 21, 2007
Sauce contest offers chance at ACDC glory
Allison Cohen
Are you Vassar’s next Iron Chef? Then put on your apron and head over to the “Big Sauce Challenge” at All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) on Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Local produce brings fresh tastes to Vassar
Stacey Locke Jesse Small
Collective efforts toward pooling resources on and off campus often fall under the radar of college life. With Local Foods week coming up, now is the time to find out a little more about environmental sustainability in your home away from home.
Sports Briefs | Another weekend of wins for the Brewers
Women's rugby fights for the ball during their inter-squad scrimmage on Saturday.J. Carlton/The Miscellany News...Seniors work to meet fellowship deadlines
Sarah Siegel
Jessica Linden-Swienckowski and Peter Chesney’s Terrace Apartment was looking pretty shabby. Clothes and papers were strewn across the floor, empty mugs testifying to several late nights. Linden-Swienckowski and Chesney are seniors and were applying for the prestigious Rhodes, Marshall and Fulbright fellowships.
Ramadan a time for self-denial, reflection
Stephanie Damon-Moore
On the first truly cold morning of September, when the sun hasn’t even considered rising, a handful of Vassar students are peeling themselves out of bed. No, it’s not because the fire alarm is going off again or because they have crew team practice. It’s Sept. 13, and the Islamic holiday of Ramadan has begun.
Life in Copenhagen
Hannah Rosenblum
A photo spread from a student studying abroad in Copenhagen.
College brings challenges, opportunities for spirituality
Mike Malloy
Does God have a place at Vassar? Ranked 10th in the Princeton Review’s category for students who “ignore God on a regular basis,” many students’ initial response might be a strong “no.”
New owner brings different outlook to Juliet's
Jasmine Brown Sarah Goetz
The intricately carved façade of Juliet’s Café isn’t exactly what you’d expect from a restaurant-cum-pool hall. But there it is, hinting at grander times, when Juliet’s was actually the kind of curtained movie theatre where women wore gowns and men put on their tuxes.
Exhibit chronicles alumna's storied life in the arts
Marcella Veneziale
A Naval enlistee during World War II and an agent at the forefront of 20th century art: Priscilla Morgan ’41 has lived her life at the bow of modern history. A selection of papers donated by Morgan now comprises the exhibit “A Life in Art and Letters: Priscilla Morgan,” which opened Sept. 18 in the Library.
Tim O'Brien to give William Starr Lecture
Acacia O'Connor
“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true,” he wrote in The Things They Carried. While Tim O’Brien’s works have invited questions about both war and truth, they do not attempt to provide answers.
Documentary explores meaning of freedom in Kashmir
Juliana Kiyan
Vassar will host a screening of the controversial documentary Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom) on Sept. 26. The feature-length documentary explores the implications of the struggle for azadi (freedom) in the Indian-administered Kashmir region, which is predominately Muslim.
Music Box | Kanye West
Mike Newmark
Kanye West has never looked, sounded, or acted like anyone else in hip-hop, period.
Happy Yom Kippur Y'all!
The Book of Life meets the Book of Face.
Athlete of the Week | Bianchetti nets goals in opening games
Ansser Sadiq
Elizabeth Pacheco
The Vassar men’s soccer team has had a strong start this fall, posting back-to-back victories in their opening three games. While all the players have given stellar performances, center mid-fielder Brian Bianchetti ’10 has been a standout player in all three games.
Synchro skating on campus
Elizabeth Pacheco
wizzle, choctaw and mohawk may sound like the newest dance moves, but they are simply technical terms in Vassar’s newest sport on campus, synchronized ice skating.
The College Court | Male practice players an issue on court
Emma Carmichael
Last year, the women’s basketball team at Vassar practiced regularly with a group of about four or five guys who would come to practices and join scrimmages and drills. Our coach had invited the guys to our practices for a number of reasons—mainly, we just didn’t have enough healthy players to play full-court scrimmages with a handful of subs at the end of a practice.
Weekly Calendar 9/21-9/27
Vassar students attend march in D.C.
Kelly Fitzgerald
Heather Lewis ’10, through Vassar’s Student Activist Union (SAU), led a group of students to Washington D.C. on Sept. 15 to protest the war in Iraq and demand immediate troop withdrawal.
Dean of Faculty to step down
Brian Farkas
Dean of the Faculty Ronald Sharp will step down from his administrative role at the end of the academic year to join the Vassar College English Department.
VSA Council dissolves special renovation committee
Elysia Glover
A motion to dissolve the current VSA Special Committee on Dorm Renovations was passed unanimously at the VSA Council meeting on Sunday, Sept. 16. In a second unanimous decision, the Council appointed Andrew Bennett ’09, former Chair of the Special Committee on Dorm Renovations, to the newly formed position of Dorm Renovations Coordinator.
URSI Symposium showcases research
Hayley Tsukayama
Robots! Lasers! Fruit flies! The Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) symposium, on Sept. 26 has all that and more.
News Briefs
Staff Editorial | Organization collaboration should be encouraged, not mandated
Students are encouraged to stay up-to-date with the Council’s resolutions and bylaws, but recent murky by-law proposals and a hazy process regarding partnerships between VSA organizations are difficult to comprehend, and more so to carry out.
Incomplete Iraq report will not spur policy change
Jonathan Miller
It has been an ongoing theme of the Iraq war to put false hope in artificial dates and deadlines, as Congress repeatedly promises and fails to set benchmarks to pull out the troops.
Electoral college impairs democracy
Steve Keller
In a democracy, it would only make sense that the candidate who receives the most votes would win the election. But we don’t do things that way.
Letters to the Editor | Diversity session opens eyes to reality
September 16, 2007
The Mug 2.0
Thanks to the Class of '06, Matthew's Mug has undergone a complete renovation.
