Vassar Animal Rights Coalition strives to stop deer cull
On Thursday, April 9, student activists affiliated with the Vassar Animal Rights Coalition (VARC) met in the Jade Parlor to discuss the deer culls that have been conducted by the…
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Updates from the VSA May 2, 2017
The Second VSA Senate is Now In Office! As of May 1, the members of the 2017-18 VSA Senate have officially begun their terms! Congratulations to all of the new…
DHFC returns to Vassar to intimidate students, activists
On Friday, April 28, around 3 p.m., two people with briefcases were spotted outside of Ferry House putting up hateful, Islamophobic and racist posters on dorm buildings, benches and trash…
Drama Department should take intersectional approach
This past weekend the Experimental Theatre of Vassar College presented “the importance of being earnest [a queer adaptation].” This joint-senior project in drama was based on a student-adapted version of…
Global issues deserve campus attention
On April 9—Palm Sunday—I awoke to alarming news of a terrorist attack in my homeland: At St. George’s Church in Tanta, at 10 a.m. Egyptian time, as the choir was…
Macron must defeat Le Pen in election
Simply said, it is essential for centrist Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! to defeat far-right Marine Le Pen of the Front National in the French presidential election, which takes place…
Feist enchants in new album ‘Pleasure’
Now we all know that on April 28, the new Gorillaz album dropped (which is great by the way), but on that same day the quiet magnificence that is singer…
Gorillaz deliver lackluster performance on ‘Humanz’
Unless you’re Phish, D’angelo’s “Voodoo” or Outkast, I’m always going to be skeptical if your album is over an hour long. It should most definitely not have a running time…
‘Girlboss’ unoriginal, fails to address critical social issues
Now that “Girls” is off the air, television executives everywhere are scrambling to fill the void left by the renowned HBO show. They ask themselves, “Where can we look to…
Doyle speaks to Title IX policy, response
[Trigger warning: mention of suicides, sexual violence] About a year ago, Alexia Garcia ’18 stumbled upon the book “Campus Sex/Campus Security” and chose to read it during lapses in her…