Young coach looks to improve men’s lacrosse program
As a coach, there is a difficult balance to strike between pushing athletes to do their best while still getting a positive response from them. For Assistant Coach Casey Martin,…
Day: April 24, 2013
High voter turnout for Exec Board
Last Wednesday, April 17, students crowded into the Retreat to hear VSA Election Co-Chairs Devin Griffin ’13 and Clayton Masterman ’13 announce this year’s results. Many of the big races…
Illuminated balloons to sail across, light up Sunset Lake
Imagine approximately 1000 balloons floating on the surface of Sunset Lake. They have been inflated by an air compressor and they glow with different colors. LEDs reside within them, illuminating…
VHP teach-in challenges idea of ‘developing’ nations
On Friday, April 19, the Vassar Haiti Project (VHP) and Amnesty International held a teach-in entitled “Making International Development Work?”. The event, attended by about forty people in the Rose…
Symposium critiques the new small school movement
Last Thursday, April 18, the Education Department held an event titled the “Symposium on Educational Reform” in the Rockefeller Hall auditorium. The event was hosted by Professor of Education Maria…
News Briefs 4/24/2013
Anne Pike-Tay to speak at Spring Convocation This spring’s guest speaker for convocation will be Professor of Anthropology Anne Pike-Tay. Convocation will take place on Wednesday, May 1 at 3:30…
VC must broaden awareness of Native American issues
On April 17, a group of Native Americans from the Oglala Lakota Nation drove a small trailer from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to Washington D.C. Their journey…
Hollaback! empowers silenced victims of street harassment
Street harassment brings oppression into the public sphere in a vocal way, functioning to degrade and silence women. Given society’s normalization of the practice, many feel as though they are…
Campus patrol watches over dorms, students at night
Campus patrol is one of the most visible examples of on-campus employment yet their role at Vassar still remains somewhat enshrouded in mystery. Campus patrol was previously an entirely student-run…
Native American students’ alliance to combat institutional invisibility
Vassar’s website advertises the Class of 2016 as the most selective and diverse class in the College’s history. Out of 660 students, 107 are Asian, 69 are Black and 63…