StuMu Senior Showcase: Musicians recall last performance
As the Class of 2019 prepares to venture off into the real world, many graduating students have vowed not to abandon the Vassar community, but to give back to it…
Arts
VC Filmmakers focus on fostering student film scene
In short films exploring topics ranging from lemon throwing to sculpture making to family longing, the directors of VC Filmmakers proved their dynamism and range in their student showcase on…
Senior imparts, channels fresh curiosity
“I wonder how high we can pile up the sand? “Let’s make a canal or a river!” “Does the sand get redder than this? What’s the reddest it can go?”…
Precise, revered, vital: Tallon’s work may save Notre-Dame
“Nice to have an apartment across the street there, to watch the building as it changes,” muttered Andrew Tallon in a 2017 video, guiding a camera along the roof of…
Kanye’s Korner Installment VIII: ‘Ye’
One Thursday night near the middle of this semester, I sat on a dorm room floor engaged in a tipsy debate centered around the question of our generation: What is…
Four years later, Neon Indian endures, evokes nostalgia
Not too long ago, I reviewed this album. I gave it four out of five stars. I said that it isn’t a perfect album, but that it was a fun…
‘Broken Dolls’ dramatizes human trafficking narratives
Weaving between reality and memories of coping and longing, playwright Melisa Tien and director June Prager’s developing production “Broken Dolls” made its debut in the Aula this weekend in the…
‘Play It Loud’ exhibit revitalizes rock ‘n’ roll relevance
There’s a multi-million-dollar work on display at the Met this spring. It isn’t paint on canvas, and it’s not a bronze sculpture. It is, “Contoured alder body, two-piece maple neck;…
Kanye’s Korner Installment VII: ‘The Life of Pablo’
The protracted and tempestuous road to the release of Kanye West’s seventh studio album remains one of the most notorious in rap history. West began working on the record in…
Cartoons constitute clear, creative social commentary
As students and capitalist consumers, readers, creators and computer-owners, we consume an excess of visual media. Every glance at our phones brings an inundation of advertisements, tweets and stories (whether…