Political Roundup
In our headlines… Protestors gathered outside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center in response to reports revealing that more than 1,600 inmates and workers had been left to work in the…
Day: February 6, 2019
Lecture assesses impact of violent conflict on public health
[Correction (Thursday, Feb. 7): The original version of this article stated that Khoshnood’s current research focuses on public health issues such as drug use. In fact, Khoshnood’s focus on public…
Vassar mourns Howard Fink
Adjunct Instructor of Hispanic Studies Professor Howard Fink came to Vassar from Marist in 2012, and he quickly immersed himself into Hispanic Studies at Vassar. He was most likely one…
News Briefs
Governor appears in racist photo Ralph Northam, the Democratic Governor of Virginia, has come under fire recently after news surfaced that he allegedly appeared in a racist photograph in his…
VSA Updates
Updates from the VSA meeting of Feb. 3, 2019 Consensus Agenda – Passed Pre-Approved Allocations: Pre-Approved Allocations: 31.98/31.98 from Capital to Quidditch 150/150 from Discretionary to Chess Club…
As Pats secure Super Bowl LIII trophy, nobody wins
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper —T.S. Eliot Eliot’s canonical final stanza in his poem “The Hollow Men” echoed through my…
NBA’s player-power revolution threatens its chief architect
By most accounts, the NBA has never seen a talent like LeBron James. But this may be a reduction of the King’s greatness, because the NBA has also never seen…
Roundup: as semester begins, VC winter sports wind down
The beginning of the spring semester is a peculiar time, not only for seniors awash in the existential angst of impending graduation but also for followers of Division III collegiate…
Why I Run: Vidal Gutierrez
When I was in middle school I didn’t understand what competitive running was. I just did it when my P.E. teacher told me to. It felt good. I was good…
Oxford comma too vital for Miscellany News to ignore
In March 2017, a Maine judge made a rather alarming decision, one that cost the dairy industry $5 million. A group of delivery drivers had filed a lawsuit against their…