Senior Retrospective: Bringing Vassar with you wherever you go
In front of me, I can’t make out anything concrete, but I can recognize the expanse of time that stretches out seemingly infinitely. Behind me is a lot clearer, faces…
Ganesh Pillai
Legacies created and fulfilled: The promise of 2023 NBA Playoffs
“Basketball is like poetry in motion,” or so said NBA champion and shooter extraordinaire Ray Allen in 1998’s “He Got Game.” His simile has been proven true time and time…
‘Haiti is a Nation of Artists’ displays country’s resilience
One of the greatest disservices that you could perform unto another group of people would be to categorize them as one “thing”—or worse yet, to assume their inability or deficiency…
Don Toliver’s ‘Love Sick’ is a largely successful experiment
Leather upholstered booths, warm lighting casting shadows across the aisles, jukeboxes adorning the walls—stalwarts of an American staple: the diner. It’s the perfect place for time-tested favorites: pancakes drowned in…
Wrapping up an understated, quality musical month
Listening to more music feels like a cop-out New Year’s resolution. Of course, discovering more artists to binge and songs to stream for hours on end is a goal for…
Palmer Gallery exhibit explores importance of abstraction
We’ve been told stories our whole lives. From simple nursery rhymes and bedtime tales with clear moral takeaways, to the increasingly subtler works of fiction we slowly introduce ourselves to,…
Producer Metro Boomin soars above the rest on new project
A city engulfed in flames, a maniacal villain on the loose, with the only chance for salvation missing in action. As this terrorizing force continues to wreak havoc, a figure…
‘The Car’ is a journey in Arctic Monkeys’ new sound
As I walked along the path to the Deece, listening to the Arctic Monkeys’ seventh studio album, “The Car,” I saw a crow land on the tip of a fourth-floor…
Drake and 21 Savage combine forces in latest project
Galileo once famously proposed a thought experiment as such: If two objects are tied to one another, one heavier than the other, what speed would they fall? Would the lighter…
Vassar’s legacy, meaning-making explored in art class installation
As you drive through Vassar’s elaborately detailed main gate, towards Main Building, there are a few things that become obviously apparent: the beauty of the building’s front façade; the library’s…