Students in apartments should receive grocery stipends
As a senior, at last, I’m living in apartment-style campus housing. My Terrace Apartment (TA) is equipped with a full kitchen: a refrigerator, a sink, a four-plate stove top, an…
Sam Patz
Vassar: Listen to More Reggaeton!
For too long, music at Vassar events has stuck to similar playlists full of American pop hits. There is no singular music taste at Vassar, but from College-sponsored events to…
United States must face its role in inequality and instability in Latin America
United States Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala on a White House trip in June 2021 to explore solutions to the migration crisis on the southern U.S. border. Harris called…
Stop punishing students for legal gray areas: College and federal marijuana regulations must change
Colleges across the country are penalizing students for possessing legally purchased or prescribed marijuana on campus (The Washington Post, 2021). University regulations surrounding drugs starkly mirror federal regulations, so students…
Don’t get it twisted: Relative Peace Does Not Absolve Japan’s Racism
In Richard Wilkinson’s Ted Talk, “How Economic Inequality Harms Societies,” there is a striking consistency in the many different graphs of inequality that he shows: Japan is rated as one…