Love and basketball: shaky start for Cavs
We are now officially one full month into the NBA season, which means it is also time to talk about this year’s numerous stories and performances. Without a doubt, the…
Day: December 3, 2014
Callous comments reflect historic erasure of Native people
Last Thursday, I, along with millions of other Americans, sat down on the couch to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. At my house, it’s a tradition: come downstairs in…
Healy meeting fails to impress student body
What some people have gone through this past week is excruciating. The level of pain, anguish and resignation I hear in some people’s voices when talking about the current state…
Injustice in legal system to be addressed
Trigger warning: This piece talks about different aspects of sexual assault and sexual violence. 400,000. Does that number have meaning to you? 400,000. When you see that number what…
Thanksgiving food not limited to family homestead
Thanksgiving is a relatively “easy” holiday: all you have to do is watch a few parades, sit down with the family, eat, make some small talk and maybe watch a…
War on Christmas myth of Christian right
I love Christmas. I love Christmas with every ounce of my being. My love for Christmas, if I may quote “The Fairly OddParents,” burns with the white-hot intensity of a…
Eerie links between Ferguson and India
Two weeks ago, an article titled “Justice denied for citizens of Bhopal,” India was published in The Miscellany News(11.12.14). It mentioned how every now and then, the average person is…
Letter to the Editor: “We do not accept the status quo,” alums assert
Dear President Hill, Dean Roellke, Vice President Baer, and the Administration and Staff of Vassar College, We are writing as a group of concerned alumnae/i to whom you made certain…
Walking while not black: an account of Vassar’s approval of violent silencing
[Sept. 4, 2018, Editor’s Note: At the request of one of the authors of the article, their name has been redacted.] The Vassar Community Mural Project was erected in the…
Movement drives plot of Unbound play
Friday, Dec. 5 kicks off a weekend full of theater and arts productions at Vassar. Beginning at 7 p.m. in the Kenyon Club Room, it will also launch the weekend…