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In Our Headlines … [Content Warning: Contains discussion of mass violence.] A gunman entered the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, 25 miles away from San Diego, and opened fire on the…
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Lecturer recounts Hiroshima: West narrates life before, after bombing
On Thursday afternoon, April 18, Vassar students and faculty members gathered in Rocky 200 to converse with Hiroshima survivor and Vassar Japanese Department founder Professor Tomiko Morimoto West and Cannon…
VSA Updates
Updates from the VSA meeting of April 21, 2019 Consensus Agenda – Passed Allocations: 115/115 from Capital to VCSS for various adapters and cables 150/150 from Discretionary to PHOCUS for…
Forum envisions Ethnic Studies at Vassar
Historically, institutions of higher education were intended to educate the white, wealthy and male elite of colonial America. Heralded universities such as Harvard and William and Mary groomed the ministers,…
Political Roundup
In Our Headlines… On April 20, 2019, the FBI arrested the leader of a right-wing armed group that stops undocumented migrants entering the United States from Mexico via New Mexico.…
Letter to the Editor: Faculty Housing
RE: Misc Article “Faculty housing to be demolished,” April 4, 2019 Thank you to Talya Phelps and Jessica Moss for their article, “Faculty housing to be demolished” (The Miscellany News,…
Vassar hosts community Easter, Passover celebrations
This past week, the Jewish and Christian communities on campus observed Passover and Easter, both of which are major holidays in each respective religion. In celebration, Vassar’s Office of Religious…
EPI explores multilingual narratives, encourages globality
“When a senior administrator at Duke sent an email to international students, asking them not to speak their mother tongue in public spaces…it was a sort of small-scale explosive: piercing,…
Tech glitches subvert election legitimacy
Student self-governance has been the pride of Vassar since the founding of the Vassar Student Association in 1868. As the backbone and voice of the student body, the VSA is…
Vassar hosts state legislative forum for women’s rights
“I just wanted us to remember that this was a women’s college,” President Elizabeth Bradley acknowledged, a recognition that was met with the whoops and claps of those in attendance.…