Refugee ban takes toll on local area
[Editor’s note: This is a complex and rapidly changing issue. While the information in this article is accurate and up-to-date as of press time, it is possible that the details…
Day: February 8, 2017
VC still prioritizes aid after decline in funds
A New York Times study shows that Vassar College ranks highest among the elite colleges and universities that enroll students from lower-income backgrounds. Princeton Review ranked Vassar as #2 for “Colleges…
Broadway star graces Vassar stage
From the Great White Way to the White House, Audra McDonald has a number of impressive performance spaces in her repertoire, and as of this past Sunday, Feb. 5, she…
Exhibit honors famed Vassar alum
A crystal songbird, paintings, gardening tools, poetry books, leather riding boots…these disparate objects display themselves in the Main and Art Libraries and in the Loeb Art Center. Encapsulated in the glass…
VC Basketball honors memorable seniors
This past Friday, the Vassar men’s basketball team fell to the Union College Dutchmen by four points in a nail-biting contest with a final score of 79-75. Then, despite their…
Resistance of Democrats must parallel Republicans’
On Feb. 7, 2017, the United States Senate voted to approve Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. As the Editorial Board of the Miscellany News wrote last December, Betsy DeVos…
VHP celebrates womanhood, nonprofit work with gala
On Friday, Feb. 10, the Vassar Haiti Project (VHP) will host She Is: A Gala in Honor of Women. Cofounder of VHP Lila Meade proudly explained, “A collaboration of the…
Professor Olsen illuminates histories of excluded women
Amid nationwide women’s marches, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies and Director of Women’s Studies Barbara Olsen gave an enlightening talk on the female voice in another era: Bronze…
Quick dinner snafu? Shake things up with breaded tofu!
Like most college students, stir-fry is my best friend. It’s easy to make, hard to mess up and easy to spice up when it’s the third time you’ve made it…
Writer-in-residence Ben Lerner gives novel reading
This past Wednesday, Feb. 1, New York Times bestselling author Ben Lerner gave a reading of his works to the campus community in the Sanders Classroom Spitzer Auditorium. Audience members…