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April 03, 2008
Vassar, Arlington Community members voice concerns about bookstore move
A crowd of over 100 people gathered at an April 2 community forum in the Students’ Building to discuss the College’s plan to move its bookstore off campus into the Juliet building.
Palmer exhibits the work of young Picassos
Gülfem Demiray
The James Palmer Gallery’s 23rd annual John Iyoya Children’s Art Show, A Celebration of Children’s Art, remedies this trend by featuring the artwork of Poughkeepsie’s youngest artists, ages kindergarten through sixth grade. The show runs through Saturday, April 5.
‘Unwrap Your Candy’ fuses horror and desire
Sarah Rebell
Watching the Philaletheis play “Unwrap Your Candy” is like watching Twilight Zone episodes, according to the play’s director Peter Gaffney ’08.
FLLAC outdoor film series disturbs, engages
Jackson Reeves
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s (FLLAC) will show both art and popular films every Thursday until June 5 at 7:30 p.m. on the lawn in front of the museum, or in Taylor Hall 203 in case of cold or rainy weather. The film series presents films from the 1920s to the present century
Music Box | Overlooked Albums | Marsen Jules
Mike Newmark
Baby-faced Marsen Jules first appeared on Pop Ambient 2007 with decent success, but "Les Fleurs" transcends his previous work.
Music Box | Gnarls Barkley
Mike Newmark
From the band who brought you the Grammy-winning album "St. Elsewhere", Gnarls Barkley's sophomore album has some of the pure pop escapism they're remembered for, but this time around the sound is a more calculated than "Crazy"
Students advocate for N.Y. farm workers’ rights
Stephanie Damon-Moore
New York State does not include farm workers in its constitutional definition of “employees.” This exception means that farm workers, who are primarily migrant workers, are not protected by many of the labor laws that protect all other workers.
Community forum debates bookstore move
Hayley Tsukayama
Members of the Vassar community interested in having a conversation about the College’s plan to move the campus bookstore into the Juliet Café building on Raymond Avenue gave voice to their concerns in a community forum on Wednesday, April 2.
Vassar controller to move to Dartmouth
Brian Farkas
Controller Gail Goodness will leave Vassar after three years to become Controller at Dartmouth College, announced Vice President for Finance and Administration Elizabeth Eismeier in an e-mail to faculty and staff last week.
In College Center neverland, kids just won’t grow up
Mike Ilardi
Vassar’s anti-child abuse organization, Together Opposing Neglect and Child Abuse (TONCA), is offering its annual antidote to combat the difficulties of second semester, along with a chance to help a good cause.
Psychologist lectures on coping with learning disabilities
Sarah Goetz
The internationally known author, lecturer and Harvard Medical School Psychology Professor Robert Brooks will address the experience of struggling with learning in a lecture on April 4.
College Center computers swiped
Julianne Herts
The second floor of the College Center used to hold 10 iMac computers for student, faculty and public use. On March 15, nine of the computers were reported stolen. The theft is under investigation by the Poughkeepsie Police Department.
Weekly Spotlight | Vassar Dems prepare for last leg of year’s events
Rukshana Jalil
The recently formed Class Issues Alliance (CIA) will host the First Annual Northeast Class Issues Conference on March 28-30 to promote awareness of class difference both on and off campus and to bring class activists together for a day of discussions, workshops and lectures.
Dems host panel on women and politics
Elysia Glover
More than 20 students and faculty members scattered throughout Rockefeller 200 reflected on the candidates in the on-going presidential primary race, and the role identity politics has played in influencing who people vote for and why.
New Yorker's words decode sciences
Sarah Siegel
What was Einstein’s pet name for his first wife? What happens when a hacker is so dangerous that a judge wouldn’t give him a bail hearing gets out of prison? Michael Specter, a The New Yorker staff writer since 1998, tackles these and other questions on the science beat with panache.
Penetrating Questions | Oh dear, what big red blotches you've got!
Jiná Ashline
Curious about your post-coital coloring? Sexual flush, also known as sex glow, is a common part of the sexual response cycle whether you are with a partner or alone, and is more evident in some people than in others.
Sports Briefs | Prentiss Field construction halted for the baseball team to play at home
Staff Editorial | Vassar students must maintain Iraq War activism
Is it that Vassar students have distanced themselves from Iraq because it is, as JFK called the Cold War, “a long twilight struggle,” one that requires more thought, attention, activism and patience than most people have?
Sports Briefs | Men’s volleyball seeded first in NECVA Championship Tournament
Sports Briefs | NCAA makes decision to not consider a split for Division III programs
The Green Glance | McKibben sets a vibrant course for Earth’s renewal
Nathan Zucker
Bill McKibben, a leading environmentalist and scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, points out that the road to renewal exists in our own backyard: the Northeast.
The Voting Booth | McCain: From party maverick to hypocritical flip-flopper
Allison Good
Believe it or not, those more familiar with John McCain’s history are now calling him a turncoat.
Clinton must bow out of race to preserve Democrats’ chances
Steve Keller
Every day that Clinton continues to stay in the race further polarizes the Democrats and hurts Obama, the stronger candidate who has shown a clear aptitude for modern political campaigning, which Clinton lacks.
Letters to the Editor | Reader responses to The Voting Booth | Wright reveals hypocritical Middle East policy
Letters to the Editor | Reader responses to The Voting Booth | Obama’s unifying speech on racism should be focus
Letters to the Editor | Obama’s unifying speech on racism should be focus
A week of hard work and success for Brewer teams
Mike Murn ’08 grabs a RBI and drove in Adam Murphy ’10 in the team’s second game against No. 15 Rensselaer. The Brewers lost both games in the doubleheader....McCullough to spend weekend at Vassar
Brian Farkas
“David McCullough does not want to be called a national treasure, but he is,” said actor and producer Tom Hanks, at the Boston premiere of the HBO miniseries John Adams on March 18.
Exploring the athlete recruitment process
Rob Dauster
The competitiveness of the college application process improves the academic quality of its applicants. However, the pool of athletes talented enough to play a sport at the college level is fairly small, and becomes even smaller when academics are considered as well.
Local history teachers visit Vassar for lectures, letters
Brian Farkas
Teachers of American history from over two-dozen high schools across New York State will come to Vassar to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough and view the Adams’s collection of letters, which will be on view in Archives and Special Collections.
The College Court | March Madness highlights a new supestar
Emma Carmichael
Stephen Curry, Davidson College’s 20-year-old starting shooting guard and the baby-faced front man of this year’s National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) basketball tournament has single-handedly led his 10th-ranked team into the Elite Eight and almost the Final Four.
Adams letters arrive at Vassar Library
Hayley Tsukayama
For the first time, Vassar will be publicly displaying 34 priceless letters between Abigail and John Adams, on loan from the Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS).
Backpage | A History of Vassar pranks and their consequences
John Adams is HBO's newest flawed hero
Acacia O'Connor
It's not easy being a founding father. Such is the story of John Adams as played by Paul Giamatti in the new HBO miniseries, adapted from David McCullough’s
Treasures abound at Special Collections
Alexandra Matthews
Deep beneath two floors of books, tucked away in the corner of the ground floor of the Library, lies a little-known gem that is home to a multitude of historical treasures: Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections.
