Vassar reconsiders mission
Vassar College, like most educational institutions, has a long history rooted in the exclusion of marginalized and disadvantaged groups. While some work has been done to make Vassar a more…
Elena Schultz
Green Haven Reunion brings New Jersey Four to campus
On Saturday, April 8, students, faculty, former prisoners and their families and members of the larger community congregated in the Aula for the 18th annual Green Haven Reunion. Hanna Stasiuk…
Deborah Bial announced as Commencement Speaker
This May will mark the graduation of Posse One, the first cohort of Posse veteran students at Vassar. Thus, it seems fitting that the Commencement address for the Class of…
Ill-lemon-ate your kitchen with these bright, tasty cookies!
Having grown up in the bitter cold tundra of the Midwest, I had learned two important lessons from an early age—first, finding any excuse to turn on the oven is…
News Briefs- February 16, 2017
National Security Advisor Forced to Resign On Monday, Feb. 13, President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, resigned after it was discovered that he had not been honest with…
VHP celebrates womanhood, nonprofit work with gala
On Friday, Feb. 10, the Vassar Haiti Project (VHP) will host She Is: A Gala in Honor of Women. Cofounder of VHP Lila Meade proudly explained, “A collaboration of the…
Drama Dept. modernizes classic
Although “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” remains an unwavering staple to the theatrical canon after four centuries, the Experimental Theater was undaunted in its quest to uniquely reinterpret the classic play…
News Briefs
Experts advocate for election recount, audit On Nov. 17, a group of respected voting rights attorneys and computer scientists alerted Hillary Clinton’s campaign team that they believed that an audit…
Drama project probes identity
In a New York Times review of the original 1977 production of the Tennessee Williams play “Vieux Carré,” critic Clive Barnes wrote, “It is a play of blatant melodrama and…
NYC group set to perform classic piece
Hailing from New York, Kairos Italy Theater will be performing Niccolò Machiavelli’s satirical play, “La Mandragola” (“The Mandrake”), in the Aula in Ely Hall on Thursday, Nov. 3 at 7…