News Briefs May 25, 2017
Trump fires FBI Director James Comey On May 9, FBI Director James Comey was fired by President Trump. The president announced Comey’s firing via a news release along with letters…
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Senior Retrospective: Calvin Lamothe
I have a secret Facebook group with my four best friends from home (for those who haven’t already made fun of me about it, home is Manchester, MA. Yes, Manchester-by-the-Sea;…
Senior Retrospective: Lydia Wood
My best piece of advice is to make connections. And I don’t really mean like business networking connections—those are great too, but I still don’t really know how to make…
Senior Retrospective: Abby Johnson
I spend a lot of time thinking about the alternate life I would have had at Oberlin College, which was the place I almost went to before Vassar accepted me.…
Senior Retrospective: Max Fine
As many of my friends and family have told me, I like looking back. This is probably why I’ve always enjoyed history and why I declared it as my major…
Senior Retrospective: Lucy Balcezak
I am a racer. There is no closure in racing. There are always more races, faster times, better places, and more grit to be had, which can never be had.…
Senior Retrospective: Rainah Umlauf
These last few days (well, weeks, and in some sense this whole year) have been incredibly strange. I am inhabiting a space that I know is precarious and temporary, and…
Senior Retrospective: Christa Ventresca
In a rather classic turn of events for me, I didn’t actually manage to get my senior retrospective in on time for the print version. So the only place you…
In wake of remake, a fresh look at 1987’s ‘Dirty Dancing’
Everyone has that one movie. It’s the film that they, for some reason or another, are absolutely obsessed with. They can quote every line, reference scene and will actually bite…
Journalist Gessen examines the first 100 days of Trump
At a lecture this past Friday, well-known journalist Masha Gessen caught her audience by surprise when she compared the current president to Vladimir Putin, who has historically served as a…