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…
discourse
Marriage equality cases need nuanced bipartisan discourse
Over the summer, I spent some time at the legal blog Equality On Trial, which covers marriage equality cases all across the country, in each stage of their legal development.…
Campus discourse continues to be strong
The Miscellany News recently published a letter by an alumnae/i group called “Fairness to Israel” that argued that recent events at our college indicate that Vassar is “no longer the…
Chronicle for discourse, whether left or right
On Dec. 5, 2013, Julian Hassan ’14, the leader of Vassar’s Conservative Libertarian Union (CLU; formerly, and still officially—according to the VSA—the Moderate Independent Conservative Alliance, or MICA), accused The…
Conservative ideas continually stifled on Vassar’s campus, deserve to be heard
Editors Note: On 12/7/13 additional clarification was sent to The Miscellany News regarding a statement by the author regarding Will Sero ’13 in an article by The National Review Online.…
Efforts in campus discourse at odds with new issues
Having good campus discourse remains one of the hurdles the Vassar community has yet to successfully throw itself over. I hope October break has given everyone here—students, faculty, and administrators…
VC must be open to divergence of political opinions
On April 4, The National Review published an opinion by Stanley Kurtz titled ‘What’s the Matter with Vassar,’...
Epstein lecture walkout highlights Vassar’s flagging commitment to thorough discourse
The Fossil Fuels Divestment Campaign is a central and controversial topic at Vassar College. To the campaign’s credit, its participants have reached a number of milestones, such as the passage…
Graffiti on campus shuts down discourse
About two weeks ago, the words “War isn’t real, Apathy is freedom, Silence is strength” began to appear on buildings across campus, written in red paint. On February 4, the…