Barnard housing policy prioritizes finances over students
A few weeks ago, I was attending one of the Vassar Student Association meetings when I came across an interesting piece of information. VSA President Ramy Abbady ’16 was giving…
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Aliens promise end to climate change after human extinction
The year was 20XX and it was an unremarkably normal Monday for planet Earth. Oil prices reached a record high of $20 per gallon due to scarcity, the Amazon rainforest…
Carson’s rise in GOP pollings sparks alarm, not relief
So far, Donald Trump has pretty much dominated all talks about the 2016 presidential campaign. Spewing incredibly brazen rhetoric from building a wall to keep out Mexican immigrants to claiming…
Trump card: 10 new policies Bernie Sanders should start
So far in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race, Senator Bernie “Feel the Burn” Sanders has been climbing the polls. People left and right (read: left and left) have been frantically…
College maintenance staff deserves respect, gratitude
It’s undeniable that we as college students are very busy people. Before I arrived at Vassar, I was under the assumption that I would have hours of free time every…
Parents struggling to decide on children’s genetic future
In the ultra-competitive world of secondary education, anxious parents are seeking new ways to shove their kids to the top of the academic food chain. However, it is often not…
Engaging in VSA fosters student discourse
As a first year attending Vassar College, I don’t really have the authority to distribute advice to people who know far more than I do. Freshmen are supposed to be…