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September 28, 2007
Palmer exhibit captures daily life in Cuba
Marcella Veneziale
Most Americans have not had access to Cuba for decades, and daily life there remains a mystery. Cuba: Photographs by Rick Miller, which opened Sept. 26 at the James W. Palmer Gallery, offers black and white snapshots of street life in this off-limits world.
Powerhouse actress takes the stage Off-Broadway
Sarah Rebell
A face familiar to the Vassar campus appears on stage in the new Off-Broadway play “Dividing the Estate.” Maggie Lacey, who visited campus last summer as part of the annual Powerhouse Theater Festival, plays a schoolteacher in the latest play by playwright Horton Foote.
Jaymay to play After Hours
Jackson Reeves
Vassar College Entertainment’s After Hours plans to begin its domination of Vassar’s not-quite-NoViCE-hipster nightlife with a performance by singer-songwriter Jaymay on Sept. 29.
Class explores cities through music
Ellen Cunningham
How is the urban experience represented through music? This semester, the urban studies department is offering a senior seminar that approaches urban culture by listening to and examining the music produced by city artists.
Backpage | Overheard at Freshman Parents Weekend
Fall TV Preview
Maya Peraza-Baker
By the final week of September, Vassar students have settled into their semester-long schedules of studying, sleeping and socializing. However, as the leaves change, the last element of student life can finally fall into place as the new TV season gets underway.
Music Box | Manual
Mike Newmark
The music of Manual (26-year-old Jonas Munk from Odense, Denmark) is by now instantly recognizable.
Music Box | Overlooked Albums | Lync
Mike Newmark
One of the most unsung acts on K Records, Lync’s only flaw was that they didn’t last long enough to reach anyone who could have celebrated them.
Sports Briefs
Vassar to host international squash tournament
Elizabeth Pacheco
Next week the Vassar men’s and women’s squash teams will open their seasons with the annual Vassar College Class of 1932 Women’s International Squash Player’s Association (WISPA) Tournament.
Women's tennis an ace at ITA
Jake Berzoff-Cohen
The Vassar women’s tennis team has started their fall season the same way for the last three years. After recording consecutive wins in their first few matches, they rose above tougher competition at their first tournament, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) New England Championships.
Overtime | Belichick receives well-deserved cheating penalty for Patriots
Kyle Nelson
Usually this column takes a fairly laid-back stance on over-sensationalized sport issues, but New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick’s cheating is cause for some serious contemplation. Apart from the Red Sox ending the curse of the Bambino and Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star, there are few moments I find to be more anticipated than the opportunity to rip Belichick apart.
Vassar lab faces federal investigation
Hayley Tsukayama
Animal neglect allegations from a former Vassar animal care technician have prompted a federal investigation into how Vassar treats its laboratory animals.
Bush raises federal student aid
Elysia Glover
In an act heralded as the largest increase in federal student aid since the 1944 G.I. Bill, Congress approved increases in government subsidized aid maximums and halved interest rates on government student loans on Sept. 7.
Controversy surrounds student-run publication
Kelly Fitzgerald
The student-run weekly newspaper of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), The Recorder, sparked outrage after it ran a racially offensive cartoon in its Sept. 12 issue. The cartoon, “Polydongs,” featured characters who discuss imprisoning and urinating on a 14-year-old Latina girl.
Vassar students protest Farm Bill
Christine Vines
Imagine an issue that both President George W. Bush and Vassar College students agree upon. The Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007 goes to the Senate this month and for once, both Bush and Vassar students are pushing for major agricultural reform.
Vassar begins reaccreditation process, self-study
Brian Farkas
This year, Vassar College begins the process of seeking reaccreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The MSCHE accredits degree-granting colleges and universities in the Middle States region, which includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
Staff Editorial | Council must take time to reconsider organization criteria
Does size matter? The Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council and the Activities Committee have been debating the answer to that loaded question.
Many students hungry for changes to College meal plan
Nathan Zucker
Although Vassar is one of the most progressive colleges in the nation, both academically and politically, its outdated meal system does not reflect the forward-thinking nature of the school. Campus Dining refuses to take into account the trend in our society toward consumer choice, local foods, and healthy eating.
Letters to the Editor | No clear justice in 'Jena 6' case
Letters to the Editor | Ramadan holiday needs second look
College, community gear up for street fair
Alexandra Matthews
Maybe you’ve been meaning to venture out into the surrounding Arlington community, but have been trapped in the library stacks. Well, wait no longer: Arlington Street Fair is here and promises cheer, communitas and—of course—chili.
Students gain experience through Field work
Jasmine Brown | Jesse Small
It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday, but one senior isn’t walking to class. Dan Morgan ’08 is beginning his day in the photo department of The New Yorker for a different kind of learning experience.
New magazine a health resource for students
Sarah Goetz
What’s one more all-nighter? One last slice of cold pizza at 9 a.m.? College students have never been models of healthy living. But colleges and universities across the country are increasingly making their students’ physical and mental health a priority, and Vassar is no exception.
Students take out the trash in ACDC
Acacia O'Connor
Vassar students are busy people. We’ve got papers to write, classes to attend and barely enough time to squeeze in a meal at All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) as it is. And now we’ve got to spend extra time separating out our trash from our compost?
Trojan gives colleges' sex health grades
Acacia O'Connor
College students worry about both sex and their GPAs—albeit separately. This month, however, universities across the country were worried about their sex GPA.
Vassar Technology Today | Protect your information over wireless networks
Matthew Leung
I sat at the Detroit International Airport for about five hours waiting for a connecting flight back to Poughkeepsie. I had missed several days of classes, so I thought I’d connect my airport’s laptop to the official wireless network of the airport and start my homework.
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.
Weekly Calendar 9/14-9/20
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Vassar questions validity of U.S. News and World Report college rankings
Brian Farkas
Vassar College President Catharine Bond Hill announced this week that Vassar, along with 18 other liberal arts colleges, will no longer mention the U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings in any future promotional publications. They will also make public all statistics that were formerly distributed to individual ranking companies.
Mold once again found in the THs
Hayley Tsukayama
Residents of Town House (TH) A10 moved back into their home last weekend after mold in their TH bathroom forced them to live in dormitories for two weeks.
Planned changes to Graduate Record Exam underway
Elysia Glover
Students planning to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) this fall may see something a little more familiar than they had originally expected. After a joint decision by the Educational Testing Services (ETS) and the GRE Executive Advisory Board, the release of a fully-revised, computer-based GRE was halted this past April as a result of concerns over the accessibility of an Internet-based examination.
Food, punches thrown at Serenading
Brian Farkas
While most enjoyed the chaos and revelry involved in the annual tradition of Serenading, the day hit a sour note. At around 4:30 p.m. in front of Davison house, a student and custodial worker became involved in a heated exchange that led to the worker striking the student in the face.
Intentions of new paper quota lost in hasty start
Printing a paper or reading for class has rarely been easy at Vassar. Three years ago, Library printers were often jammed or backlogged with abandoned print jobs. As a remedy the College instituted a VPrint system. This year, however, printing at Vassar backslid into its inefficient ways. The College has instituted a new printing system with a 1,300-sheet paper quota per year, after which students must pay by the sheet.
Plastic bottles dilute natural benefits of water
Alyssa Roush
Over the past few years Americans have adopted a new favorite beverage, which according to The Wall Street Journal is more popular than beer or coffee: bottled water. This “chic” drink, however, is extremely harmful to the environment. Sure, it seems to make sense to grab a bottle as you exit the door or go to the gym, but does convenience trump morality?
Vietnam remark misrepresents history, occupation in Iraq
Queen Pham
War opponents were enraged. Americans were shocked. The world was speechless… The Vietnamese just sighed.
Letters to the Editor | Lessons of diversity talk cannot be dismissed
Law hikes birth control prices on campus
Stephanie Damon-Moore
Are birth control prices out of control? A preliminary study by the Feminist Majority Foundation found that the price of prescription birth control pills at college health centers across America has increased by an average of 145 percent over the last six months. Similarly, the cost of the patch is up by 105 percent.
Department stays à la mode with change to new name
Acaica O'Connor
What’s in a name? Or you might say “Qu’y a-t-il dans un nom?” A lot, say French language study programs.
Saved by the Microwave
Nick Marmet
The toughest decisions at school don’t always occur in the classroom. For many, the hardest thing to decide at the end of the day is what to eat for dinner. Curry, easily made at the Stir-Fry Station, is a quick, delicious and filling solution to any dining dilemma.
Students celebrate Jewish High Holy Days
Matt Baker and Sarah Siegel
At sundown on Wednesday, Sept. 12, observant Jews will begin celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The holiday commemorates the day 5,767 years ago when, according to ancient Jewish tradition, God created the world.
Vassar Technology Today | Evaluating new technologies: Zimbra, VPrint
Matthew Leung
Over the summer I sat in front of my computer far away from Vassar, reading about the Webmail upgrade process. I tried to keep abreast of the changes on campus, from the overnight migration from SquirrelMail to “Zimbra,” to the upgrade to the VPrint system. Both systems are purportedly sleek and streamlined, but each has its own challenges that users must overcome.
Serenading
The Serenading tradition began in the early days of the College with more tranquil singing. It has since then evolved, but the playful spirit remains.
Harryette Mullen to deliver Bishop lecture
Juliana Kiyan
In the tradition of the annual Elizabeth Bishop lecture at Vassar, the English Department invited an eminent poet whose innovative work reflects a range of influences and criticisms. Harryette Mullen, an award-winning American poet, writer and scholar, will deliver the lecture on Sept. 18.
Palmer Gallery displays studio art majors' works
Jackson Reeves
A small group of junior and senior studio art majors spent the summer perfecting their craft for the greater Vassar community to enjoy at the Studio Art Majors’ “Summer Work” exhibit at the Palmer Gallery, opening Sept. 13 and running through Sept. 22.
Film League presents Vassar's (free) movie theater
Anita Varma
For students who savor the thrifty moviegoing experience, Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE)’s Vassar Film League has a solution: free film screenings in Blodgett Auditorium or the second floor of the Students’ Building on Fridays and Saturdays.
Brooklyn bands to play No-ViCE venue
Marcella Veneziale
Fresh off the success of their first show on Sept. 6, No-ViCE is gearing up for another exciting performance. Ex Models, caUSE co-MOTION! and Holy Hail are slated to play the outdoor space near the Doubleday Studio Arts Building on Sept. 14.
Music Box | Animal Collective
Mike Newmark
For all of Animal Collective’s stylistic leapfrogging over the course of six albums, one could reductively say that their career has been a steady trajectory toward accessibility. “Accessibility” is, of course, a relative term, and it depends on who you ask.
Music Box | Overlooked Albums: Sweet Trip
Mike Newmark
You could call the early-2000s the era of indie electronic music, offering a deluge of indie pop albums punctuated by a kind of digital poignancy. Suddenly, electronics weren’t just the province of DJs and bedroom producers, but a way to imbue rock songs with certain moods that a guitar couldn’t accomplish on its own.
September 14, 2007
Cross country feels the heat in the first meet
Elizabeth Pacheco
On Saturday, Sept. 8, the men’s and women’s cross country teams began their seasons by hosting the annual Vassar Invitational. Despite unbearable heat conditions, Laura Coogan ’09 and Anthony Lucero ’09 had standout performances, leading the Brewers to capture the title, the women for the fourth year in a row and the men for the fifth.
Athletes losing to an unexpected obstacle
Elizabeth Pacheco
Located in the heart of the Hudson Valley, Vassar’s campus is relatively free of serious air pollution. Athletic teams practice outside daily and students are seen at all hours biking, running and simply enjoying the beauty of the outdoors. Not far from campus, however, the air quality begins to decrease.
Czula leads Life Fitness Program
Joe Bubar
Director of Life Fitness, Roman Czula wants to be clear: “‘In the Pink’ is not a porno site,” rather the name of the Life Fitness Program at Vassar.
Golf team tees up for success
Ansser Sadiq and Elizabeth Pacheco
Five years ago the Vassar women’s golf team was non-existent. Last spring, the team finished 16th in the nation at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Invitational for Division III sports.
Sports Briefs | Fall sports score in season openers
The Brewers set to spike during a match at the Vassar Invitational.D. Bruck-Segel Krista Romita '09 prepares for a backhand during her match against Union.S. Donahue...Overtime | Roll call for national scandal
Kyle Nelson
This was the summer of sports…controversies. There was backstabbing, dogfighting, lawbreaking and just about anything else you can think of.
September 09, 2007
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Reporting from the Field: The MISC B.Y.O.A.
During the “Build Your Own Adventure” day of Freshman Orientation for the Class of 2011, The Miscellany News invited freshmen to spend a day “Reporting from the Field.”
VSA president aimes high, invites student voice
The newly-inducted Vassar Student Association (VSA) President Sam Charner ’08 intends to bring the voice of the students to the forefront of the institutional agenda. “I wanted to continue on the work that was done last year,” Charner said. After years of discussion, the structural revisions to the VSA Executive Board are finally in place.
Hudson Valley native bridges town-gown gap in new position
On Jimmy Kelly’s ’09 walls, posters of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi remind him of the focus upon community and collaboration that he has tried to bring to each of his positions within the Vassar Student Association (VSA).
Young coach brings pro experience to women's basketball
Already a familiar face on the Vassar campus, Angel Mason, who has been the Athletics Operations Manager since 2005, was appointed the Women’s Basketball Head Coach this year. She hopes her experience on the Vassar campus will lead to a smooth start as head coach.
ViCE director looks to broaden Vassar entertainment scene
Vassar wasn’t his first choice, but when Evan Altshuler ’09 visited the school on Admitted Students Day, he was impressed. Two years later, he is the director of Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE), the organization that manages all entertainment hosted on campus.
Phocus takes freshmen on Snapshot Safari
Amielle Major Plamen Ivanov Eleanor Albert Tim Taber...Fall sports teams prepare to start seasons
Elizabeth Pacheco
Almost a week before classes started, amidst the stifling heat and rainy days of August, Vassar fall athletes arrived on campus to begin their pre-season training. Despite displacement due to Prentiss Field construction, the athletes have upped their intensity, with most teams holding at least two practices a day.
Growth, change and honors for Vassar athletics
Emma Carmichael
While the Vassar athletic fields and courts were deserted for the last three months and Brewer athletes trained and conditioned off-campus, the Athletic Department was as busy as ever. With a number of construction projects underway and a wealth of new coaches hired, Brewer athletes returned to a familiar, but improved Athletics Department.
Prentiss construction finally en route to the finish line
Joe Bubar
The new Prentiss Field, projected to open by the end of November or early December, will feature a turf field with an eight-lane track, a second grass field adjacent to it for soccer and lacrosse, a grass field hockey field, a baseball diamond complete with a fence and dugouts, and a practice field.
U.S. Open nears final matches
Ansser Sadiq
September is upon us and the final grand slam of the year is in full swing. The U.S. Open, a two-week tournament that began Aug. 27, has finally reached its semi-final and final stages, and it is anyone’s guess as to who will become the next women’s and men’s singles champions.
Ben Lee to serenade festive campus
Mike Newmark
If you fail to recognize Ben Lee’s name at first blush, you may still know his music. Perhaps you purchased the Grey’s Anatomy soundtrack (cherry-picked by Alexandra Patsavas, who knows about postmodern cool) and sang along to his unabashedly insouciant single, “Catch My Disease.”
Alumna finds niche with teen book series
Jackson Reeves
Our youth-centric, glamour-obsessed culture has been documented by fashion-concerned reality-television shows such as America’s Next Top Model and Project Runway. Vassar alumna Melissa Walker ’99 taps into the fashion fad with her debut novel, Violet on the Runway, released by Penguin on Sept. 4.
Music Box | M.I.A.
Mike Newmark
To understand what makes Kala succeed so brilliantly is to realize why so many anti-war albums fail. Exhorting a message is easy. Getting people to sit up and pay attention is a much more formidable task, one that’s proven too tall an order for the likes of the Flaming Lips, Nine Inch Nails, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, From Monument to Masses, and dozens of others.
Walking on Eggshells in the Palmer Gallery
Marcella Veneziale
As the second half of a two-part, Spring 2007 sculpture class project, Lexi Cote ’09 has filled the Palmer Gallery with 1,200 dozen carefully-scrubbed eggshells.
Hudson River School unites three collections
Marcella Veneziale
The Hudson River School Trilogy, the current exhibit at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, culls an impressive range of 19th-century Hudson Valley-inspired drawings and paintings divided into three parts.
Harry Potter finale creates literary frenzy
Molly Finkelstein
I guess I should warn you that this will have spoilers, but seriously, if you really cared you would have read the book already.
Professor looks to past for advice on the future
Christopher Triose
The Class of 2011 officially began its academic careers with Fall Convocation. On Sept. 5, Professor of Anthropology Lucille Johnson joined the rest of the College community in welcoming the freshmen and bolstering the new senior class. In her convocation speech, Johnson analyzed her career to determine how its different elements led her to where she is now.
Student groups seek new activists during outdoor fest
Mike Malloy
Got a cause? Whatever it may be, you can find an outlet for it at the first-ever ActFest. The interest fair will take place on Saturday, Sept. 8 from 1-3 p.m. on the Quad and will feature the approximately 20 activist groups on the Vassar campus.
New students move past freshmen fears
Stacy Locke and Jesse Small
Move-in Day, Aug. 25, is a day like no other for the 682 freshman entering as Vassar College’s Class of 2011. Temperatures lingering above 90 degrees, an endless line of cars chock full of dorm goods and the energetic Strong girls screaming “Honk if You Love Vassar,” met us as we arrived on campus.
Living, eating (and cleaning) in Ferry
Alexandra Matthews
For most students at Vassar, Dexter M. Ferry House continues to be “that ninth dorm.” Generalizations such as “they’re all vegans” and “they’re all artists” seem all too prevalant when describing the dorm’s personality. But what is life at Ferry House really like?
Bike program sets students up to cruise
Sarah Goetz
A new trend in eco-friendly transportation and convenience has rolled into Vassar. Flashes of pink and chrome seem to be whizzing by in every direction now that the the Shared Bike Program is up and running.
Staff Editorial | Return to need-blind rightly prioritizes accessibility
Orientation diversity session falls short of intended goals
Jonathan Miller
Hypocrisy is no stranger at a college information session.
Letters to the Editor | College on path to reduced fire calls
September 07, 2007
College returns to need-blind admissions
Hayley Tsukayama
Beginning with the class of 2012, financial circumstance will no longer factor into whether or not a domestic applicant may attend Vassar. After 10 years of considering applications through the lens of a “need-sensitive” admissions policy, Vassar is returning to “need-blind” admissions.
Summer construction abounds on campus
Brian Farkas
While Vassar students enjoyed their summers at home and abroad, teams of workers were busy making a number of improvements to the campus.
Class of 2011: By the numbers
Brian Farkas
This August, 682 members of the Class of 2011 joined the Vassar community. They are drawn from the largest applicant pool in the College’s history, with an increase of more than 300 applications since last year. Sixty-nine percent of the class of 2011 with a high school rank graduated in the top 10 percent of their class, and nearly 95 percent were in the top 20 percent.
President Hill appoints third dean to Senior Staff
Elysia Glover
Vassar College President Catharine Bond Hill announced on July 24 that Rachel Kitzinger, the Matthew Vassar Jr. Professor of Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, was to become the first Dean of Planning and Academic Affairs.
VSA looks ahead to new year’s projects
Christopher Doscher
This Sunday, Sep. 2, representative from each housing area and class year met in the College Center with the Vassar Student Association(VSA) Executive Board for the year’s first Council meeting. The majority of the meeting focused on approving some broad goals for the year.
