Unlimited NRO model preserves socioeconomic disparity
If there is one word that can encapsulate the feeling of the present moment, it is anxiety; if there is a phrase, dreadful hysteria. In addition to significant and painful…
Abram Gregory
Living on a campus under quarantine
My windows are directly over the front door of Lathrop, so when Spring Break began I watched and heard students leave, whether it be for lavish vacations I cannot fiscally…
St. Patrick’s Day prompts reflection on Irish identity
St. Patrick’s Day has long stood alongside Cinco de Mayo as the easiest holiday to culturally appropriate in the name of inebriation. Those of us with a Catholic upbringing share…
Discourse on Israel/Palestine needed, but SJP doesn’t help
Plainly put, the Israeli government is abusing the Palestinian people. Although the Global Conflict Tracker refers to the phenomenon as a “conflict,” it is not a conflict. A conflict implies…
Infinite soccer? More like infinite nonsense
Somewhere in Romania, a career bureaucrat clocks out after a day of pencil-pushing and goes home to spend countless hours theorizing his ideal reformulation of the world’s most popular sport:…
Under this Congress, revolution is needed
Donald Trump is inept, to understate. But we’ve dealt with Republican idiots in the past, presumably the same Republican idiots that conservatives put in office just so that they could…
Students shouldn’t be doing work for administration
Members of the VSA Executive Board get paid. When I first learned this, my initial reaction was disgust and disapproval. The antagonizing voice in my head wondered: Why are some…
So many art spaces, but it’s all just self-aggrandizement
Art critics can either take the individuated shapes of social media users, or of multi-personal entities within larger publications. There are bona fide publications for art at Vassar (for example,…
Why We Play: Fencing
[TW: This article discusses depression, substance abuse, forced enrollment in a psychiatric facility and self-harm.] Full disclosure: I began fencing after seeing it on iCarly. My dad was just excited…
Internet cesspool 8chan should be allowed to fester
In the wake of acts of mass violence that have become all too regular, it is all too tempting to try to wipe out the digital roots of the white…