For recent college graduates who are looking to make an entrepreneurial splash in the small business start-up scene, finding the funds to fuel their business plans is not always easy. However, Venture for America, a two-year program aimed at college seniors and recent graduates, hopes to change this by providing participants with the skills and necessary to succeed in the start-up world.
The unprecedented string of laptop thefts committed last semester ended with the arrest of a student in December. Since then, one additional student has been arrested, with an on-going investigation into the possibility of other students involved with the thefts.
Beneath Vassar campus lies a labyrinth of winding tunnels. The question of the existence of tunnels has captivated the imagination students long before students were interested in things that were "underground."
College marks a transition from the simple comfort of home-cooked meals to having nobody around to stock your fridge. Keeping in mind the jarring situation in which this puts many freshmen, the House Fellow program was created to bring some home to the stark dormitory situation.
As I walk from Main Building to Baldwin Health Center I notice that the campus is eerily quiet. Tonight is the Shiva Rave, and soon hordes of students from all across campus will stream down to the Shiva Theater.
With the complete digital archives of The Miscellany News now available online, I was able to easily search through the history of food-related stories to find the most tantalizing tastes and unexpected finds. Some of the pieces were written seriously and others in jest
The Al-Madina Halal Grocery Mart may remain largely unnoticed; it is humbly squatted next to Bacio's pizzeria on Collegeview Avenue. Not just a grocery mart, Al-Madina Halal is also a deli and a convenience store.
Vassar students often justify their absence from the gym by citing classwork or extracurricular obligations, but a select few have gone the extra mile by not only taking Life Fitness classes, but by teaching them.
The program "Good Morning New York" on the Fox television station WYNW aired an interview that was exceptionally vitriolic towards the College. "They just think that they can do this and not have to pay … they can't just get off scott-free," vented a rejected applicant, Mary Hanley.
Are you reading this in a printed newspaper? If so, chances are it's one of the few analogue texts with which you'll interact today, thanks in part to Vassar's computing network and the Computing and Information Services (CIS) Department.
Despite the wintry weather and eviction notices by the Town of Poughkeepsie Police, protesters part of the Occupy Poughkeepsie movement, pictured below, hold strong to the tenets of their mission.
From the canals of Bruges to the cobbled streets of L'viv, every fall and spring semester students choose to venture out of the Vassar campus with its quaint charm to explore the globe. And while often attention is placed on their alluring adventures filled with language mishaps and millennium-old buildings, 55 percent of students spend an opportunity-filled yet comparatively lackluster junior year on campus with almost half of their class—and friends—missing.
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