[June 20 Addendum: On June 20, 2018, Interim Dean of the College Carlos Alamo-Pastrana notified the Vassar community via email that Jodie Castanza would be leaving Vassar. Alamo-Pastrana noted that her last…
TW: This article discusses sexual assault. “I was just walking past this artwork by SAVP [the Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Program] that said things like, ‘We believe you.’ It’s…
Vassar College recently chose President of Demos Heather McGhee as the College’s 2018 Commencement Speaker. Demos is a Washington D.C.-based public policy organization. McGhee graduated from Yale University with a…
Lights flash. An alarm blares. Students stumble out of bed, hastily pulling on shoes and jackets before heading down the dorm stairs and out into the frigid night. Many mutter,…
[Content warning: Mention of sexual violence] [Editor’s Note: Due to the highly personal nature of this event, The Miscellany News chose not to report on the specifics of what speakers…
[Nov. 6 Editor’s note: Following the publication of this article, a few of the Trustees chose to submit their own bios to The Miscellany News with further details that they…
The average American meal travels roughly 1,500 miles before reaching your plate, criss-crossing the nation’s innumerable highways and railroads to be processed, packaged, distributed and sold. That means the corn…
Hundreds of members of the Vassar community–students, faculty, staff, parents, alumnae/i and trustees—gathered on the weekend of Sept. 23 and 24 to celebrate an event that occurs only once every…
[Content warning: Mention of antisemitic hate speech] After a nation-wide, yearlong search, Vassar recently welcomed a new Rose and Irving Rachlin Director for Jewish Student Life, Elizabeth Aeschlimann, who will…
While Hurricane Irma ravaged the Caribbean and Florida, Houston, TX began the long struggle to recover from the catastrophic flooding that occurred during August’s Hurricane Harvey. This was the storm…
