Dones elected new VP for Student Life
Tuesday, Nov. 19, former Vice President for Student Life Genesis Hernandez resigned from his position. In an emergency Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council meeting, the VSA voted to fill the…
Day: December 5, 2013
Smoking ban leaves questions unanswered
After half a decade of debating the implementation of a campus-wide smoking ban, the Administration announced just prior to Thanksgiving break that by July 2015 Vassar would be both a…
College must maintain constructive dialogue after incidents
Following the Town Hall meeting on Nov. 18, President Bond Hill and Dean of the College Chris Roellke notified students that the Vassar College...
Women’s rugby to compete in Final Four
After suffering a hard loss against Marist College 0-53 early in the semester, the women’s rugby team at Vassar College sought to fight back and perform well in the season.…
Student-curated exhibition brings Native American art to forefront
Many scholars believe that Native American culture currently finds itself in a troubling situation: too many people think of it only in the past tense...
Faculty, administrators acknowledge privileges in display
On Monday, Dec. 2, faculty and administrators unveiled the Privilege Campaign, a show of portrait photographs of faculty and administrators detailing the privilege that each of these individuals...
The Limit hosts famed improv comedy troupe UCB
The traditionally cheeky publication The Onion called the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) “witty, irreverent, and conceptually ambitious.” For once, readers should know that The Onion was serious. UCB is a…
Traveling becomes instantly less fun when I punch you in the face (sorry, guy on crutches)
5:55 a.m.: My flight from Portland lands in Newark. I inexplicably got upgraded to first class, where they served me wine in a plastic cup before the plebs in...
My name is not Tabitha: The Misc’s guide to transparency
To my fellow Vassar elite? Vassholes? Vass-classmates? Vassaridianites? To whatever it is we pretentiously call ourselves: Hi. In case you didn’t know, classes are almost over. We’ve reached the point…
Conservative ideas continually stifled on Vassar’s campus, deserve to be heard
Editors Note: On 12/7/13 additional clarification was sent to The Miscellany News regarding a statement by the author regarding Will Sero ’13 in an article by The National Review Online.…