Day: April 24, 2013

Young coach looks to improve men’s lacrosse program

By MEAGHAN HUGHES – 10 years ago

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,…

High voter turnout for Exec Board

By HANNAH BLUME – 10 years ago

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

By MARGARET YAP – 10 years ago

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

By ANNA IOVINE – 10 years ago

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

By NOBLE INGRAM – 10 years ago

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

By EMILY HOFFMAN – 10 years ago

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

By THE EDITORS – 10 years ago

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…

Campus patrol watches over dorms, students at night

By KHINE THANT – 10 years ago

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…

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