Hot off the teleprompter: vote Jill for generic VSA position!
The VSA election season fills me with bitter regret. I always wish I ran for a position in my four years here because…power. I never actually ran for anything for…
Day: April 17, 2013
The Misc’s bedside astrologer
Aries (March 21-April 19): We all hear you passive-aggressively sighing over there, Aries. All that sighing won’t bring Macklemore here any faster. You know what will, though? Angry, hurtful, possibly…
Keep it up, sleepy-head: how to spend more time in bed
Finals are coming. Are they coming? I don’t know, I’m in Italy. I don’t know anything except for how to fit as much cured ham into my mouth at one…
College must provide smoking cessation resources
Last week, the Committee on College Life (CCL) voted to implement a campus-wide smoking ban by July 2015. The vote followed a recent student survey administered by CCL, which concluded…
Social Media an outlet for news and support in wake of Boston bombing
First and foremost, my thoughts go out to all those affected by the events that took place this past Tuesday at the Boston Marathon, especially to our students, faculty, and…
S. Georgia prom reaffirms demand for social progress
Racial segregation in the 21st-century United States seems paradoxical. Wasn’t that a mid-20th-century thing? Not in rural South Georgia. When the schools in this area were forced to desegregate in…
Earth Week 2013 begins with your diet
Hosted every April by environmentally-minded student organizations like The Vassar Greens, Vassar Animal Rights Coalition (VARC), and Slow Food, Earth Week devotes seven days to educating students about environmental issues…
Baseball hopes to make postseason with old, new talent
The Vassar College Brewers Men’s Baseball team has started off their season this year hard and fast. As of now, they’ve already had over 20 games and currently stand with…
Williamstown an unexpected art haven
Williamstown, Massachusetts: Land of wheat fields, chickens, and investment-bankers-to-be. On a visit to answer the question, “Could we go to grad school in the middle of nowhere for two years?”…
Plea for pink from 1974 alumnus
When it comes to Vassar, color me Pink and Gray.·For four years, pink permeated my being and informed my soul. A pas de deux of pink on gray matter. Yet,…