Vassar has since 1861 been a bold and pioneering institution of higher education. It is a place that aspires to set the bar for the liberal arts and demonstrate the…
VOICE is an acronym for Vassar Organizing Israel Conversations Effectively. This name is self-descriptive: We organize academic discourse about Israel/Palestine from a multitude of perspectives. The VOICE Executive Board unequivocally…
Yesterday evening, Nov. 14, 2019, at 5 p.m., around 25 members of Vassar SJP and other Vassar students gathered on the third floor of Rockefeller Hall to oppose a talk given…
For the last two years, our campus has been focused on engaged pluralism and practices that allow all voices to be heard. This is not easy, and while we have…
For years, I was staunchly against the concept of single-sex schooling on the basis of my rejection of the gender binary and the “gender differences” so often proliferated by stereotypes.…
[Full disclosure: I am the current Chair of the Board of Elections and Appointments, but in this letter I write in my capacity as a constituent of the VSA and…
What happened to the Grand Old Party? What happened to the conservative party of Senator John McCain? What happened to the party of “family values” and conservative morals? Well, the…
Dear Frankie, I’m in a class with a student who takes notes on their computer. This particular individual seems to have a lack of awareness as to the excessive volume…
Somewhere in Romania, a career bureaucrat clocks out after a day of pencil-pushing and goes home to spend countless hours theorizing his ideal reformulation of the world’s most popular sport:…
I’m going to die one day. I’m relatively certain you’re going to as well. There’s worse things I guess; just don’t ask me what. I’m not a philosopher, and you…
