Heated campus strikes on climate
Scattered across the grass on the Chapel Lawn, Vassar students gathered for exchanges in cross-legged semicircles, listening to live performances at the makeshift stage nearby and painting signs bearing slogans…
Day: September 26, 2019
Dezaki film confronts comfort women issue
Nobukatsu Fujioka is a bespectacled and neat-looking man. He is also a purveyor of Japan’s history wars. As a graduate student at Sophia University in Tokyo, Miki Dezaki interviewed Nobukatsu…
Marc Indigo delivers mellow grooves and Lo-fi moods
He is posted quietly in his bedroom with an oversized gold chain wrapped around his neck. As we weave between intimate conversations about his music tastes and small talk surrounding…
B.stroy fashion line, Sandy Hook ad normalize tragedy
It’s back-to-school time. The debut of B.stroy’s New York Fashion Week line featuring collegiate-style sweatshirts fashioned with manufactured bullet holes hauntingly coincided with the release of a chilling advertisement by…
Elite consulting firm comes to Vassar
The room teemed with black blazers, sweaty palms and briefcases in hands of rushing, fervent Vassar students, anxiously waiting on the chance to meet with the alumnae/i of McKinsey &…
Vassar Memes takes it too far with direct personal attacks
Look, I love a shitpost as much as the next guy. There’s something truly medicinal about gazing directly into the absurdity we face on a day-to-day basis and, well, having…
Alumnae/i administrator spotlight: the coffee, tea of SAVP
Vassar administration. The enemy. In student discourse, the two terms are usually interchangeable. Vassar’s administrative bodies are the faceless entities that reduce a student’s financial aid, demolish faculty housing for…
Voluntourism incites fetishization of Third World poverty
This piece was initially intended for a social justice blog run by a global nonprofit I interned with over the summer. They mobilize young people to spark change in their…
Rocket League (flying car soccer) is pinnacle of esports
Last week, I first proved that ultimate frisbee was a sport, then moved on to argue that it was also the ultimate (heh heh) sport, superior to all others. This…
