Financial aid key to Founder’s dying wishes
Upon his death in June 1868, Vassar College Founder Matthew Vassar left the College approximately $275,000 to be invested, with the income being devoted to specific purposes: $50,000 for a lecture fund; $50,000 for an auxiliary fund, the purpose of...
Meals Under $20
Also follow this recipe in a photoessay by Kelley Van Dilla on the Miscellany's photojournalism blog, Exposure. With the Saints bringing New Orleans its first Super Bowl title and Mardi Gras starting on Tuesday...
Students bear financial brunt of professors' tardy book requests
There’s nothing fun about buying textbooks, about placing a $600 dent in your wallet or about standing in line to do so, arms weighted down by the sheer mass of an Introductory Physics textbook. While some might call this an inevitable part of the semester...
The written comments on the bulletin boards by the exits of Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) may be an effective means of communicating students’ culinary preferences to Campus Dining, but they’re not the only way. The Vassar Food Committee, a joint group of students and administrators, meets once a month to discuss ways in which dining on campus can be improved.
Driving down Main Street in downtown Poughkeepsie, it is almost impossible not to notice the energy pulsing from M*POWER Center for Cultural Fitness. There is a distinct rhythm that emanates out of the storefront space of creative and physical expression for everyone in the Poughkeepsie community.
