Men’s rugby advances to playoffs
This year’s season has earned the Vassar College men’s rugby team a solid winning record of 8-2 and, with only one losing season since 2000, the team’s storied successes will…
Day: November 20, 2013
Special election to decide new VP for Student Life
After the unexpected resignation from the Vice President for Student Life, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) called a special session of Council on Nov. 19 to decide how to fill…
Town Hall incites disagreement
Senior members of the Administration called a town hall meeting that took place on Monday Nov. 18. The event, moderated by Director of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Julian Williams…
SOC name change not an answer to larger student concerns
On Nov. 13, Dean of Students D.B. Brown sent out a campus-wide email to inform the student body that the organization previously known as the Student...
Capstone projects help sum up Vassar careers
Every year there is a new batch of seniors striving to make thesis meetings, slogging through their drama projects and struggling through rehearsals, among a whole variety of other capstone…
FLLAC to highlight black female identity
Kaleidoscope, a lecture series that joins a group of Vassar professors once a semester to discuss a work of art from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, is back after…
NaNoWriMo: now or never for some budding novelists
Its a Saturday in November, the sun is barely poking its way out of the outcast sky and a light mist covers the ground, and today is the day, the…
Good Samaritan Policy places wellbeing before discipline
After a long week of classes, tests, sports and meetings, many students look to the weekend as a stress-free refuge, a time to loosen up, relax and have a little…
Film Festival displays language and culture of Spain
Over the last month, the Hispanic Studies Department hosted weekly film screenings of Spanish movies with the aim of deepening students’ familiarity with the culture of Spain and enhancing their…
Low-harm vegan dinner something to be thankful for
The Thanksgivings of my early childhood probably recall those of most other Americans families: uncles making awkward and subtly offensive jokes; a football game playing on the television in the…