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Lisa Kudrow '85 to be 2010 Commencement speaker

Vassar alumna and trustee accepts Catharine Bond Hill's invitation to address graduates this spring

Lisa Kudrow '85, winner of an Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her work in the television phenomenon Friends, has accepted Vassar's invitation to deliver the 2010 Commencement address. Full story

Rick Lazio

Vassar graduate a top contender in NY gubernatorial race

Rick Lazio '80 reflects on memories from his four years at the College

On Nov. 2, 2010, Vassar students may have the option to vote for Vassar alumnus Enrico “Rick” Lazio ’80 for New York State Governor. Lazio declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination on Sept. 21 and is running on a fiscally conservative platform.

Sanders Classroom

College has no plans to release the names of cut faculty members

Approaches to discussion of cuts vary between departments

Although it was announced last December that a total of 19 non-tenure-track faculty have not had their contracts renewed for the following year, questions remain among students and professors alike as to who those 19 professors are and in what department they teach.

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Vassar receives all-time high number of apps for Class of 2014

Early admission rounds result in 265 acceptances

After a final meeting of all Office of Admissions officials on Jan. 25, Early Decision (ED) II applications for the Vassar Class of 2014 went through a last round of scrutiny. The entire Early Decision enrollment of the Class of 2014 has finally been settled. A total of 639 students applied to Vassar College through ED...

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24th VSA Council’s first semester yields Athletics proposal, more

Semester in Review

“Vassar faces significant financial constraints, but the VSA leadership sees the unique opportunity to act as innovators for change,” wrote Vassar Student Association (VSA) President Caitlin Ly ’10 in an e-mailed statement at the start of the semester. 1 comment

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Vassar to cull deer population

Meant to remedy “how our influence is changing all the creatures in the forest,” says Begemann.

This week, the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve Oversight Committee announced that they will be holding a sharpshooting session in the preserve over Winter Break to lower the deer population. The Committee has been dealing with deer overpopulation for year...

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Nate Silver

Hometown indulgence brings New England to your kitchen

Also follow this recipe in a photoessay by Photography Editor Kathleen Mehocic on the Miscellany's photojournalism blog, Exposure. I have a confession to make: I’m a New Englander. I haven’t always found it easy here in New York, surrounded by Yankees and Giants fans and Long Island accents, but I’ve done my best.

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Sustainable Vassar: unknown methods of energy conservation

College works to finance sustainability

The contemporary environmental movement, both globally and at Vassar, often focuses on “going back to the source.” On our campus, we know that Campus Dining uses fresh local ingredients in their dishes, that our food and much of our dishware is compostable, and that dual-flush toilets have recently been installed in dorms and buildings. 1 comment

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The Decade at Vassar

Interactive Feature

To look back on the past ten years, The Miscellany News has presented just a few of the successes, failures and controversies that have helped shape Vassar to become the College we know today.

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Exposure | Skinner Greenhouse

Photoessay by Madeline Zappala '12

The Skinner Greenhouse is home to the plants of the Building and Grounds Department. Originally built in the 50’s, it was used to store cut flowers. Now the College uses it to grow herbs for the dining hall and annuals for the flower beds around campus, according to an interview with Head Gardener Martin Pinnavaia.

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We have responsibility to engage in discussion about recent layoffs

Community must move toward shared vision of Vassar

Last week the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Executive Board agreed with other members of the VSA to endorse a faculty letter on curriculum, which the Miscellany mistakenly attributed to me. This collaborative letter, circulated to members of the Vassar community, was intended for the Vassar Trustees. 3 comments

Student activists should question authority and their own methods

The question often arises: Why bother? Why bother engaging in any activism at this point in our lives? Why think that we can create any sort of change? Why not keep our collective head down? Sometimes the question comes under the guise of questioning scale...

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New Year’s resolutions from Vassar’s A Cappella groups

The campus has become blanketed with a light snowfall, evergreen wreaths and holiday lights decorate dorm rooms and the harmonizing voices of a cappella singers perform end-of-the year concerts. Such is Vassar in wintertime.

transilmania

The Big Screen | Transylmania college road humor at its worst

I chuckled at a joke in Transylmania. This joke, and this joke alone, is what merited this movie one half of a star. What is this saving grace, this gaudy movie’s brief and wondrous bastion of humor? Let me tell you all about it: About a third of the way into the film, nondescript horny male college student A tries to give nondescript horny male college student B sex advice.

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Out of Bounds | Set standards on court, in class

The NCAA recently published its 19th Annual Graduation Rate Report for Division I Athletics, which chronicles nationwide graduation rates by school, gender and sport for all schools competing at the highest level of collegiate athletics. The results, although generally positive in that the rates hit record highs, were nonetheless marred by some truly disconcerting facts.

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Athlete of the Week | Sullivan sets 1, 3 meter records

Who swims like a fish and sings like a bird? If you’re stumped, don’t kick yourself over it because there’s only one athlete who fits the bill. If you haven’t guessed already, the answer is Greg Sullivan ’12. It should come as no surprise to see Sullivan gracing the sports section as his continued accomplishments as a diver make him a valuable and buzz-worthy commodity.

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