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Day: April 19, 2017
News Briefs April 20, 2017
Turkey passes government reform The Turkish government held a referendum on Sunday, April 17, voting to grant Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan increased executive powers. Touted as governmental reform aimed…
Updates from the VSA April 20, 2017
VSA Elections Have Concluded–Meet Your New Senate! Last Thursday, after days of filing, campaigning, and then more campaigning after some unexpected technical difficulties, we announced the results of our 2017…
Baseball rewrites history: first sweep of top-ranked Union
The Vassar men’s baseball squad had a historic weekend, sweeping the Liberty League’s top ranked Union Dutchmen 4-0 for the first time in Vassar baseball history. Prior to this weekend,…
Vassar on par for(e) success at league championships
As spring competition has picked up in recent weeks, the Vassar women’s golf team has competed in two invitationals: the Vassar College Invitational on April 8 and 9 and the…
Questionable World Cup bid uncovers more scandals
“Another day, another million dollars” -FIFA. Last year, thousands rejoiced–myself included–as the FBI busted several FIFA executives in spectacular fashion. The country without a glamorous soccer history, whose professional soccer…
Forget Harden, Westbrook deserves NBA MVP title
“What he has done has been historic in nature. He’s played with passion and pride and it’s really outstanding what he done in the way he did it.” Those were…
Liberty League playoffs approaching, crucial games ahead
Women’s Lacrosse The Vassar women’s lacrosse team cruised over Bard College 14-3 to advance its conference record to 3-2. Vassar went on a scoring spree early in the game and…
Discourse around Syrian intervention needs more nuance
The established political factions of the United States nearly unanimously greeted the recent intervention in Syria, in the form of shooting 59 tomahawk cruise missiles at At Al Shayrat airfield,…
Neuroscience of religion reveals hidden cultural trends
comIt seems that more and more young Americans don’t feel quite as deeply connected to deities as their parents or their grandparents. According to the Pew Research Center, the number…
Transphobia permeates coverage of ‘Survivor’ contestant
At the end of last week’s episode of Survivor, Jeff Varner outed fellow Survivor contestant Zeke Smith as trans on a national platform, creating one of the most devastating and…