Majors lead sustainability initiative
Most meals at the Retreat are characterized by a last minute frantic dilemma of which bin to put your waste in, followed by a quick dumping of everything into just…
Day: November 12, 2014
VC buyout program to decrease staff by 68
In just over one month, Vassar College will witness the final wave of employee departures that began this summer as part of a voluntary resignation or early retirement program. According…
Britomartis creates novel pastiche
Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but for the Britomartis Devised Theatre Ensemble, ten directors can produce a cohesive pastiche. Combining materials from novels and stories with their own…
Swimming and Diving makes early splash
Vassar’s swimming and diving team saw its first Liberty League matchup against Skidmore on Nov. 7, at home in the Kresge Pool, where both the men and women came out…
Buyout program excludes student voices
This past July, Vassar College began the first phase of the Voluntary Retirement Program, an initiative which provided certain non-faculty employees with the opportunity to take a buyout that would…
NLMH combats city foreclosures
When a residents are evicted and a home is foreclosed, a family become homeless, and a home becomes empty. A Poughkeepsie based organization, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson (NLMH), is trying to…
Burnham to speak on stigmas surrounding mental health
To someone who had just met him, there was no doubt that Jordan Burnham was the ideal high school student. Peers of all ages admired his ability to seemingly have…
Female STEM faculty negotiates personal, professional
Marie Solis contributed reporting. Historically men have dominated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, but women have started to catch up in recent years. On Nov. 8, Strong…
Tours expose city’s historic struggle for food sovereignty
Out of context, the phrase “Middle Main” probably spurs images of trying to push through the College Center on Tasty Tuesday, or perhaps walking down the aisle where the Retreat…
Hudson Valley Ventures
If you often find yourself with too much time on your hands and have a hankering for exercise, climbing the trails at Mohonk Preserve might just solve all of your…