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March 28, 2008
Skinner Hall presents musical spring season
Gulfem Demiray
. The Miscellany News presents part one of a two-part preview of the March and April concerts being held at the Martel Recital Hall this semester.
March 27, 2008
Spring Sports Preview | Brewers ready for success in upcoming spring seasons
Lillian Reuman
As the weather gets warmer, Vassar’s spring sports teams have taken their practices outside, where they are training hard in prepartion for their competitions this season.
NCAA considers taking action in splitting Divison III
Kelly Capehart
For the first time in 35 years, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is considering a divisional split. The main factor contributing to the potential split is growth.
Sports politics are worth consideration
Kyle Nelson
Renovations to make Art Library a work of art, history
Brian Farkas
The Vassar College Art Library will undergo extensive renovations in the next year, restoring the modernist building to its original appearance. Construction will begin in June 2008 and completed by May 2009.
ACT OUT campaigns for Right to Marry in Hudson Valley
Elysia Glover
Vassar Student Association (VSA) organization ACT OUT is teaming up with social justice organization Soulforce Q to tackle the next target issue of the semester: gender neutral marriage rights.
Emergency alert system to be tested
Julianne Herts
The system, to perform its est on April 2, will be used to send an automatic message to members of the College community in case students and faculty need to take shelter, evacuate an area or go to a secure location.
Housing crunch may send students to the Days Inn
Hayley Tsukayama
Students checking in for housing next fall may be doing so at the front desk of the Poughkeepsie Days Inn, if the College employs a housing contingency plan announced at the Vassar Student Association (VSA) meeting on Sunday, Feb. 24.
Weekly Spotlight | Class Issues Alliance hosts regional conference
Sarah Goetz
Mike Ilardi
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.
M.I.A. to perform her innovative music at Vassar
Chloe McConnell
Maya Arulpragasam, commonly known in the music world as M.I.A., will perform in the West Side of All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) on April 11.
Vassar-born Genghis Tron discusses style of album
Mike Newmark
When metal act Genghis Tron played its first shows at Vassar, nobody had heard anything quite like it. Its approach was wholly unique, a quirky grindcore-meets-electronica rubric that sounded like Ratatat’s party being crashed by The Locust and Atari Teenage Riot.
Play echoes senior students' employment concerns
Chloe McConnell
Vassar Students often aspire to pursue interesting and fulfilling employment after they graduate. How will our future jobs shape our lives? This query provides the underlying force driving the characters in “Typographer’s Dream,” written by Adam Block.
Lehman Loeb presents bodies Out of Shape
Jackson Reeves
Malformed and even deformed figures populate Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art from the Logan Collection, now on display in the central gallery of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Campaign taste-test kicks Coke and Pepsi
Sarah Siegel
Students with a yen for Retreat snacks got a treat on Feb. 26 and 27: free drinks as part of a taste test from the Vassar Kick Coke Campaign, the student coalition devoted to banishing the cola company from campus because of its alleged human rights abuses.
Vassar drag queens to man the catwalk
Stephanie Damon-Moore
On Friday, March 28, the Queer Coalition of Vassar College (QCVC) is sponsoring its biggest, most elaborate drag show yet.
A Look into Vassar Science | Students, professors scrutinize the sciences at Vassar
Stephanie Damon-Moore
Erica Hersh
Is Vassar preparing students to compete in a world of dwindling job opportunities and cutting-edge technology? Is the College equipping non-science majors with the skills they need to survive in a world that is increasingly dependent on science and technology?
Penetrating Questions | Come on, honey-if you don't it'll hurt!
Jina Ashline
What's the deal with blue balls?
Vassar Technology Today | Backing up files without breaking the bank
Matthew Leung
Online storage used to promise convenience and freedom from physical storage drives. With a recent government push to justify airport security's inspection of your digital data along with your luggage, however, online storage is about to get a lot more appealing.
The Voting Booth | Obama must distance himself from divisive pastor
Allison Good
Barack Obama is attempting damage control after Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s public expression of radical and controversial views of the race issue in America.
Weekly Calendar 3/28-4/3
Backpage | Our theses, ourselves
Music Box | Destroyer
Mike Newmark
Trouble in Dreams is Vancouver-bred Dan Bejar’s ninth album as Destroyer in 12 years. This would be a make-or-break situation for most bands, the point at which their listeners stay tuned or stop caring. They lean toward the former by no fault of their own.
The Green Glance |Mayor Michael Bloomberg: A pragmatic environmental hero
Nathan Zucker
The Big Apple has become one of the greenest cities in the world, and it’s largely because of the hard work and political initiative of Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Hips don't lie at CampFly dance workshops
Daniel Savage
FlyPeople are the only official, “unofficial” dance group on campus that gives students the opportunity to choose their own music, choreograph their own pieces and organize a performance each semester to show off their hard work.
Staff Editorial | College must prioritize student safety in emergencies
March 26, 2008
March 13, 2008
Web update: Vassar moves to eliminate loans from financial aid packages
Brian Farkas
Vassar College will replace loans in the financial aid packages of students with calculated family incomes of up to $60,000 with scholarship grants, President Catharine Bond Hill announced in an all-campus e-mail on Monday, March 10.
March 05, 2008
Web update: 2008 Commencement Speaker Announced
Randy Cohen, New York Times columnist and Emmy Award winner will be the 2008 Commencement speaker.March 04, 2008
Web update: Prentiss Field renovations not completed by spring season
Elizabeth Pacheco
For Vassar’s spring athletes, the opportunity to play on their own “field of dreams” remains just out of reach.
