As protests gained momentum across the country this summer in response to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans, much of the media coverage described a renewed urgency propelling the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet…
As Vassar students learn to navigate life in the campus “bubble,” they have grown increasingly reliant on delivery services to obtain certain necessities or goods that are not readily available on the College’s grounds. For many students, these delivery services…
When pre-registration began last spring, then-seniors Nicole Kormendi ’20 and Sylvia Peng ’20 impatiently opened AskBanner, eager to confirm that the class they had long campaigned for would be offered next semester. And there it was—AMST/ASIA 185, Intro to Asian…
In 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained an average of 45,000 asylum seekers each day in for-profit, taxpayer-funded and notoriously inhumane detention centers. With a number so large, the gravity and scope of the human rights abuses refugees…
After two weeks of zero active COVID-19 cases on campus, members of the Vassar community were shocked to see the VassarTogether online dashboard report five new cases on Sept. 25. President Elizabeth Bradley shortly thereafter sent an email explaining that…
