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Day: February 14, 2024
BREAKING NEWS: Emily Mortimer to give address at 160th Commencement
On Feb. 9, 2024, The Miscellany News was informed by Vassar College that actress and filmmaker Emily Mortimer will address the Class of 2024 at the 160th Commencement. The ceremony…
ASA celebrates Lunar New Year
On Saturday, Feb. 10, Vassar’s Asian Students’ Alliance (ASA) hosted their annual Lunar New Year dinner in the Aula. The space glowed warmly from paper lanterns and string lights. Attendees…
VCTV holds 12-hour filmmaking extravaganza
Vassar College Television (VCTV), Vassar’s student-led hub for video production, filmmaking education and film events, held a 12-hour-long filmmaking extravaganza on Friday, Feb. 9. The event took place in VCTV’s…
Professor Grier lectures on racial thinking across literature
How can we define racism today? Professor Miles Grier opened his lecture with this question and was met with a resounding silence. The lecture hall that moments before had felt…
‘The Bear’: The toxic cooking dramedy of the moment
It is hard to be a television fan these days without hearing about “The Bear.” Season One premiered on Hulu in 2022 and quietly delivered a succinct yet potent rendering…
Mark Schonwetter speaks about the good of humanity
On Thursday, Feb. 9, Holocaust survivor Mark Schonwetter, his daughter Isabella Fiske and his grandson Jared Fiske ’26 joined Vassar students in packed Taylor Hall 203. Schonwetter spoke about his…
Vassar Writer-in-Residence discusses poetry, love
Eloquence comes easily for Garth Greenwell, Vassar’s 2024 Writer-in-Residence. He seems to know what he wants to say immediately, yet speaks with incredible mindfulness, sans “um”s or “like”s. This fluidity…
100 Nights sets high expectations for future senior events
A quintessential Vassar senior experience is 100 Nights, a celebration of the remaining days until Commencement. Though the idea of being so close to the end of our time at…
Redrawing the U.S. map
With a few perceptive remedies, We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, can achieve an aesthetically pleasing and geographically sensitive map. As…
An Out-of-this-World Lover
My love sauntered into the room A face as lovely as a flower-covered tomb My beau’s bright eyes shone like stars Catapulting me all the way to Mars I’m in…