Campus rhetoric needs to respect academic freedom
My first Vassar paper was returned with more red ink than black. The Intro Philosophy topic concerned the methodology of the Socratic dialogs. Professor Tillman’s main criticism was written in…
Day: April 6, 2016
Hostility between generations of women hurts feminism
Hillary Clinton’s candidacy has proved to be a divisive issue for feminists, specifically in terms of the generation gap. It is nothing, however, that the country has not dealt with…
TIRC must consider community input on climate change
This is the second of a two-part article on the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign’s repeated attempts to engage the administration and Board of Trustees on fossil fuel divestment. Our experience…
Autism Speaks diminishes lived experience
April has come. It’s rainy. It’s spring. It’s supposedly warm. For some people, it might contain a special event, like a birthday or an anniversary. But for those of us…
Food Chain tackles serious topics with comedic twist
Stressed out from that midterm grade? Panicking about student government? Well don’t! Just laugh. And as “The Food Chain” by Nicky Silver shows, comedy is in practically everything—even the most…
Radha Pandey to trace history of papermaking in lecture
Communication is such a ubiquitous part of everyday life. From Snapchatting to texting to taking notes in class, the written word is not, as some say, dying out. Instead, it…
Impromptu concerts to set stage for Decoda performance
“Be on the lookout for a roaming bassoon!” wrote Concert Administrator Amy Kawa of the Department of Music at Vassar College. Kawa’s caveat is not to be taken lightly. The…
Russian classic, Vassar oldie reborn in Martel Theater
“‘The Cherry Orchard’ is by no means an ‘inanimate thing,’ but one of those living works of art which we do not allow to die,” wrote Professor of English Mary…
Disjointed new RJD2 album disappoints
Everyday I wake up with a question burning inside my head that I wish I could scream from the mountaintops. It’s a question that has kept me up many nights,…
Sell/Buy/Date bridges utopia, dystopia
In “Sell/Buy/Date,” Sarah Jones mediates/ponders present issues and future realities, through an exploration of utopian and dystopian societies. These societies struggle with many issues we currently face: sexism, abuse, prejudice…