Meryl Streep accepts AAVC Distinguished Achievement Award
Students, faculty and other members of the Vassar community lined up outside the Vassar Chapel on Thursday, Oct. 13, as rain trickled down from a gray sky. For almost a…
Day: October 26, 2022
Vassar launches Fearlessly Consequential campaign to raise $500 million
The College has initiated its largest fundraising campaign in history, known as Fearlessly Consequential. A two-day event between Oct. 14 and 15 kicked off the campaign, which is intended to…
Board of Trustees dinners garner mixed reactions from students
In the week before October Break, the Board of Trustees held three dinners with Vassar students from Noyes, Cushing and Raymond Houses in an effort to initiate a relationship between…
‘Mosquitoes’ sets the stage for senior drama thesis season
Senior drama thesis projects have officially begun, and the season is off to a great start. Between Oct. 6 through Oct. 8, 2022, the first of these projects in the…
Choral ensemble VOCES8 dazzles with ‘Underneath the Stars’
On Oct. 9 at 8 p.m., over 300 guests—students, faculty and community members alike—had the immense privilege of experiencing a performance by what is no doubt one of the finest…
‘A Strange Loop’ examines identity, society, artistic unconscious
Stuck in Manhattan traffic on a recent Friday at 8:10 p.m., I and a busload of Vassar students thought we would miss the evening performance of Michael R. Jackson’s “A…
Remembering ‘All Too Well’ 10 years and six albums later
Taylor Swift’s 10th studio album, “Midnights,” was released on Oct. 21 and is already breaking records. Swift describes the essence of this new project on her Instagram, saying, “This is…
Three autumnal poems for a very Vassar fall
Fall is officially underway here in Poughkeepsie, and I, for one, could not be happier. The maple trees throughout the quad have turned bright red, miniature pumpkins are being sold…
Drawing connections between mellow Americana and horror
There is something horrific in cookie-cutter homes with hospital white trim and manicured lawns greener than any wild evergreen. The silence of suburbia, broken only by the sound of a…
Local vegan business serves Poughkeepsie area
As a lactose intolerant person, one of my favorite activities is ignoring this key component of my health and satisfying my dairy-based cravings. For a while, I thought there was…