Vassar’s Office of International Services (OIS) and the Vassar International Students Association’s (VISA) annual Kaleidoscope event kicked off Wednesday, Nov. 15, celebrating the College’s cultural diversity in a week of…
Although I cannot remember my first interaction with “Peanuts,” it was probably watching 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on TV. The opaque whimsy of the holiday special’s first scene, synchronized…
Watching musicians perform live allows an audience to feel personally connected with the music and the personality of the artist they are watching, and catching a live set can also…
One of the key barriers of entry to films are their runtimes. Movies which extend well past the two hour mark are often slandered as boring, pretentious or outright excessive.…
Madison Beer’s long-anticipated second studio album, “Silence Between Songs,” was released back in September. This album is a perfectly cohesive collection of songs that flows smoothly—just like Beer’s angelic voice—from…
I chose my seat, a chair with a nice view of Ben Franklin’s behind, as a silent wish for a lucky semester. The class occurred on Tuesdays and Thursdays at…
As a political science major pursuing a correlate in economics, I am deeply interested in the interplay between economic systems and other areas of society. ECON 220: “Health Economics,” taught…
Information for this article was taken from “John McAndrew’s Modernist Vision: From the Vassar College Art Library to the Museum of Modern Art” by Mardges Bacon. The book contains a…
There is no worse feeling than coming back to campus and seeing that your favorite dorm bathroom sink is hopelessly clogged. Apparently someone didn’t know soil is not an acceptable…
Now, we all know the idiom “any press is good press,” most often employed by “controversial” politicians and downward-spiraling celebrities, who perhaps see an almost freeing quality in feeding off…
