To manage stress effectively, make health a priority
October break is just around the corner, and, for many of us, it seems that the transitional phase of the school year is just about over. Schedules are all but…
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Political Roundup
In this week’s headlines… On Sept. 27, pointing to goals of economic growth, the Trump administration unveiled its proposed tax overhaul, which would slash corporate tax rates, implement a lower…
News Brief Oct. 4, 2017
Saudi women gain the right to drive On Sept. 26, the government of Saudi Arabia publicly announced that women in the kingdom will soon be allowed to drive. The gender-based…
Students present summer research at URSI symposium
On Wednesday, Sept. 27, Vassar students presented their faculty-advised research projects at the 2017 Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI) Symposium, the 22nd annual of its kind. It featured undergraduate research…
Updates from the VSA
Committees — The Organizations Committee will start compiling a list of possible orgs to au- dit (about 10 percent of the orgs on campus). They will begin by looking at…
Further action essential after success of ACDC rally
When, in a given system of governance, constituents petition their representatives to make a change and receive no response or reaction to their petition, what is their recourse? They could…
U.S. must address broken ‘PROMESA’
We still do not know how many people in Puerto Rico have died as a result of Hurricane Maria. The sheer devastation on the island has made surveying the extent…
Excitable expatriate shares tips for paranoid travelers
After nearly two decades as a self-proclaimed raging pessimist, I wasn’t about to make a fundamental change in my outlook just because I was heading to a different country. So…
Hero student accidentally pays for washer, not dryer
Most Vassar students dread laundry day. From scraping all of last week’s socks out from underneath the bed to having nowhere to put dirty clothes since the clean ones remain…