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Day: November 29, 2023
Students celebrate 18th annual Kaleidoscope kickoff
Vassar’s Office of International Services (OIS) and the Vassar International Students Association’s (VISA) annual Kaleidoscope event kicked off Wednesday, Nov. 15, celebrating the College’s cultural diversity in a week of…
Ranking the ‘Peanuts’ holiday specials
Although I cannot remember my first interaction with “Peanuts,” it was probably watching 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on TV. The opaque whimsy of the holiday special’s first scene, synchronized…
Vassar Tiny Desk showcases music on campus
Watching musicians perform live allows an audience to feel personally connected with the music and the personality of the artist they are watching, and catching a live set can also…
What makes a long film engrossing?
One of the key barriers of entry to films are their runtimes. Movies which extend well past the two hour mark are often slandered as boring, pretentious or outright excessive.…
Madison Beer’s second album will cure your winter blues
Madison Beer’s long-anticipated second studio album, “Silence Between Songs,” was released back in September. This album is a perfectly cohesive collection of songs that flows smoothly—just like Beer’s angelic voice—from…
Student reviews ‘Foundations of Computer Science’
I chose my seat, a chair with a nice view of Ben Franklin’s behind, as a silent wish for a lucky semester. The class occurred on Tuesdays and Thursdays at…
Exploring U.S. health care in “Health Economics”
As a political science major pursuing a correlate in economics, I am deeply interested in the interplay between economic systems and other areas of society. ECON 220: “Health Economics,” taught…
Underlining architectural modernism at Vassar
Information for this article was taken from “John McAndrew’s Modernist Vision: From the Vassar College Art Library to the Museum of Modern Art” by Mardges Bacon. The book contains a…
No! Don’t you dare pour that down the drain!
There is no worse feeling than coming back to campus and seeing that your favorite dorm bathroom sink is hopelessly clogged. Apparently someone didn’t know soil is not an acceptable…
Comedy troupe unsure: Is audience laughing with us or at us?
Now, we all know the idiom “any press is good press,” most often employed by “controversial” politicians and downward-spiraling celebrities, who perhaps see an almost freeing quality in feeding off…