Speaking silently
The sun erupts from the east over the tiny cul-de-sac in South Glens Falls, New York. The air fills with the sounds of children playing and coffee having been brewed…
Features
Students with Type 1 diabetes make the invisible visible
“He’s so fat. He’s going to get diabetes.” The person at the Deece table next to me talking about their overweight pet doesn’t know I’m right there, checking my Continuous…
Tight-knit Knitwits interweave community with charity
Knitting needles clink against each other in the quiet ambience of Joss Parlor. Among others comfortably slouched around a circle of couches, two girls, dressed as Barnacle Boy and Mermaid…
Special thanks to Colleen Mallet
On behalf of the Vassar Veterans, I would like to give a special thanks to Vassar Registrar Colleen Mallet. On top of her responsibilities as Registrar, Colleen is also the…
Heroes
Women often pay the price of war What couldn’t happen to her just opened the door His hands, his weight, his rage His power and assertion over her All his…
And you wonder is it love or war
You close your eyes See casket flowers Hear the saying in your head ‘All is fair in love and war’ But what is not We do not talk about We…
Google claims quantum supremacy
Revolution is a term that inspires both hope and fear, but for the most part, the world has embraced the information revolution we currently live in. Despite the problems that…
Displaced youth find place on Vassar campus
In fall of 2015, Professor of German History and American Studies Maria Höhn, like the rest of the world, was struck by the unfolding humanitarian rights disaster in Syria. President…
Student colors in picture of dyslexia, resists social stigma
When I was younger I loved to read those “I Spy” books. Each page had a puzzle to solve, requiring a careful eye to uncover different objects scattered in the…
Alumnae/i share law school realities, advise on applications
When I decided to apply to law school almost a year ago at the beginning of my junior year, I was lost in figuring out what a personal statement was…