Our men’s and women’s sports teams reached new heights during 2011-2012, as numerous collective and individual accomplishments capped off a successful campaign. Here are the highlights from the past two semesters, with some help from a few motivational...

Six exceptional students were presented with awards for their personal achievements as Vassar College athletes. ...

As a rising junior and non-empathic sociopath, it’s difficult for me to place myself in a senior’s soon-to-be-graduating shoes. But according to the roughly eight thousand Facebook and SayAnything posts I’ve read, graduation is apparently a very emotio...

I think it’s hard to write about a time of your life that you’re still inside of, that you don’t have enough distance from, but I’m going to try anyway. I didn’t realize how much the swimming and diving team shaped my life until I sat down to write thi...

The studio art majors graduating on May 20 have spent the last four years developing and refining a wide range of techniques through a variety of media. From garments to sculpture, painting to photography, their projects demonstrate the diverse interes...

Theater doesn’t die out at Vassar over the summer—instead, it takes on a new form through the Powerhouse Theater program. The eight-week intensive program unites audiences, artists and students in a season of plays, readings, musicals. ...

While pomp and circumstance may be lavished upon the graduates more publicly this Sunday, commencement also marks an occasion to celebrate the contributions of professors whose time as faculty members is coming to an end. ...

While for many seniors, graduation marks a daunting world of endless possibilities, three seniors have more concrete plans that will take them to locations across the world. ...

Fifteen minutes after midnight last Tuesday, during a Barefoot Monkeys performance on the residential quad after the traditional Primal Scream to celebrate the end of classes, Emily Riordan ’15 was burned in a freak accident when the fire whip she was ...

As of May 16, the 2012 Student Gift raised $22,993.84 towards expanding the Internship Grant Fund (IGF), with 1900 students donating. ...

I think it’s hard to write about a time of your life that you’re still inside of, that you don’t have enough distance from, but I’m going to try anyway. I didn’t realize how much the swimming and diving team shaped my life until I sat down to write thi...

I spent a lot of time getting to know and getting to see the guts of this incredible institution. And if that sounds like an odd note to start my retrospective on, I apologize, it probably is. ...

I pulled an all-nighter last night. Thirty pages in about thirty hours, pausing only to greet the Bacio’s guy at the door for my half-on...

When I came to Vassar four years ago, I had no friends. I had just not-so-artfully (because who can do anything artfully in high school?) burned every bridge I had spent my four years of high school building. ...

The best thing about coming to a place like Vassar is that you get to meet the people you always hoped you’d meet (these people know exactly who they are). ...

I often feel as if the message of your typical senior retrospective winds up sounding like advice from Tom Petty. Work never ends, but college does, so live life to the fullest because in the end you are never going to remember that one history class y...

When I transferred to Vassar in the fall of 2010, I was uneasy about coming in as a junior, because I was concerned that two years here simply wouldn’t be enough. To be frank, I did not take much away from my freshman and sophomore years of college—for...

There were plenty of times I thought about leaving Vassar, but most of them transpired somewhere between midnight and one in the morning on my walk home from the library. It was usually, although not always, the whistle of a Metro-North train that jogg...

The memories I have of The Miscellany News feel like the glue holding together my college years (I guess now that I’m an alum, I feel comfortable saying “my college years”). ...

Vassar is an easy sell. Anybody who asks, I’ll tell them that I love this school and wouldn’t go back, wouldn’t have it any other way. I’ve sung Vassar’s praises to anybody who will listen: to prospective students and nervous parents, to friends at hom...

Pardon my French, but there was no way in balls I was going to join an a cappella group in college. Especially not an all-girl a cappella group. Especially not an all-girl a cappella group where the outfits were color-coordinated. I’d been in a group l...

My decision to attend Vassar was a surprise to nearly everyone who knew me. They knew I was looking for a small liberal arts college where I could immerse myself in the sports culture; their question was whether I would find that here. After four years...

The Official Vassar Drinking Game*: A retrospective. ...

Too often I have found myself appreciating Vassar on the wrong side of 5 a.m. The paper that was pushed too close to the deadline, The Miscellany News article that still needed to be written, The Misc...

When I came to Vassar, I was lucky to join two of the best groups on campus that would shape my time here: the Barefoot Monkeys and VC Fencing. ...

I clearly remember my first night at Vassar as if it were yesterday. After a hectic move-in day, my roommate Sal and I attended all of the ice-breaker events that the Lathrop House Team organized. ...

My first memory of Vassar took place in cyberspace. It was late August 2008, and I was an incoming college freshman. ...

I applied early decision to Vassar for the simple reason that the student body seemed “artsy.” ...

At some point in the near future, I will be filling out an online survey in a doomed attempt to live from gift card to gift card; before it asks me what medications I would be open to trying in the name of science, I will be asked for my occupation, an...

“You should just try out, Emily” coaxed my roommate Julia, “the worst that can happen is you don’t get in.” ...

It’s an offering to the city: a brand spanking new pair of polished leather shoes left on Valencia Street in San Francisco on Mother’s Day. There’s no gift tag around, no return address, only ‘Fuck you’ scratched into once wet cement and the question o...

Alanna's and lt;i and gt;last and lt;/i and gt; guide to this week's events. ...

Let me begin with a thought exercise. In 2008, you face a choice between two candidates to vote for. You happen to have a crystal ball that tells you that, if one of the candidates is elected, he will escalate one ongoing war in the Middle East, begin ...

In case you missed the big poster, the numerous flyers, and the ‘Veg Pledge’ pins, or simply didn’t have the time to attend to attend some of the interesting events in celebration of Earth Week, here...

“Chekhov does reality, truth, inertia of life—not dance movement, music, animals and craziness,” said Danielle Lemieux ’13, an actress in an upcoming production of Chekhov’s classic realist play “...

The recent incident involving a sexist comment on a game-day poster was unfortunate, yes. It was sexist, yes. It is understandable and commendable that people were offended, yes. What is also unfortunate is that the college and its students were and re...

  To All Vassar Students: The Campus Patrol staff would like to take this opportunity to comment on changes made to Patrol throughout this academic year and alleviate any remaining concerns that arose in September. ...

American playwright Paula Vogel wrote her play "The Baltimore Waltz" in response to the AIDS epidemic, which brought about the death of her own brother in 1988, but perhaps surprisingly it was comical. Now "The Baltimore Waltz" will come to Vassar thro...

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Occupy Wall Street has given environmentalists a new platform for fighting the green battles of the 21st century. ...

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The Age of Aquarius is returning to Vassar through 1960s love-rock musical Hair, famed for addressing hippie counterculture and the sexual revolution of that era. Hair will be performed Apr. 26-27 ...

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Art Librarian Thomas Hill sure looks like a librarian with his glasses. “There was something about the round glasses I like, and I know there is something iconic about them,” Hill said. But he didn’t anticipate becoming an art librarian. ...

Ever fancy tangoing with your professor? Swinging into its fourth year, Vassar Ballroom Dancing Club’s annual event, Dancing with the Professors, will showcase four faculty-student pairings as they exhibit the result of their weeks of diligent practice...

You may know that the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (FLLAC) contains over 18,000 works, which include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, p...

  Papers, and finals and projects, oh my! The end of the school year is so close you can almost taste it. And yet there’s so much left to do. Luckily for you (and your unfinished papers) there’s a nifty little something that can help you get t...

In 2003 when former Athletics trainer Leonard Angelli observed 13 overflowing dumpsters full of students’ discarded belongings, particularly at move-out time at the end of the year, he took action...

The 2012 NFL Draft is quickly approaching and Sports Editor Andy Marmer has much to say on the matter. ...

The moniker of “the Vassar 10” does not resonate today, but in the late 1970s the term was notorious. It referred to a group of 10 students who were arraigned by a College disciplinary committee in ...