By: Ruby Cramer

Grinnell College selects new president On Wednesday, Feb. 17, Grinnell College announced that Raynard S. Kington—deputy director of the National Institutes of Health—would serve as the institution’s 13th president. Many in higher educati...

By: Hao Fu

Last Wednesday, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) hosted a forum in Sanders Classroom’s Spitzer Auditorium to discuss the issue of illegal downloading on campus, a topic addressed in previous VSA Council meetings. At this particular forum, three ...

By: Jillian Scharr

For students who have eaten at the All Campus Dining Center (ACDC) lately, they have probably noticed that the location of the cash register has changed. Instead of cashiers seated at one or both of the desks to either side of the plasma screen TV by the ...

By: Matthew Brock

The Athletics and Physical Education Department’s proposal to give students academic credit for varsity sports is one step closer to passing after the issue was brought before faculty members on Feb. 17....

By: Caitlin Clevenger

Sports, academics and philanthropy will combine tonight at 6:30 p.m., as Vassar’s students and faculty members face off in a game of basketball. The proceeds from this first-ever Faculty-Student Basketball Game will benefit the Class of 2010 Senior ...

By: Molly Tuprin

After a request from the Committee on College Life (CCL), the Drugs and Alcohol Education Committee (DEC) has created a recommendation for ways to phase out or significantly reduce the areas where smoking is allowed on campus. “We were tasked by the...

By: Jillian Scharr, News Editor

Last spring, the College Committee on Sustainability (CCS) oversaw a greenhouse gas inventory for Vassar College. The study found that the College’s carbon footprint in 2008 was 27,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide. This is below average compared to...

By: Ruby Cramer

Virginia Tech newspaper may take legal action against University if funding is cut Last Monday, the Commission on Student Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University notified the school’s student newspaper, The Collegiate Times (C...

By: Aashim Usgaonkar

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the Campus Life Office and the Campus Life Resource Group (CLRG) will host the 10th annual All College Day, an event that began in 2001 as a response to an incident concerning the use of racially offensive language. Various events a...

By: Xiaoyuan Ren

The Asian Students’ Alliance (ASA) will venture to the University of Pennsylvania to attend a conference held by the East Coast Asian-American Student Union (ECAASU) over the first weekend of spring break, March 4 to 6. As one of the largest and old...

By: Caitlin Clevenger

“Is a Muslim Ghandi Possible?” Iranian author and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo spoke in Rockefeller Hall on Tuesday to answer that question and address Western stereotypes about Islam. A native of Tehran, Jahanbegloo has a doctorate in philos...

By: Matthew Brock

The Committee on Curricular Policy (CCP) voted on Feb. 3 to endorse a proposal that would award half an academic credit to students who participate in varsity sports. The proposal began as a resolution introduced by the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Ex...

By: Jillian Scharr

  The English Department held a town hall-style meeting last Thursday evening, Feb. 11, in Sanders Classroom’s Spitzer Auditorium. Advertised as an open discussion for English majors and interested students, the meeting created a space for conv...

By: Hao Fu

A subcommittee of the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Academic Committee recently sent a letter to a group of natural science department chairs discussing the possibility of granting an extra half credit for natural science courses with a lab requirement...

By: Matthew Brock

As the Committee on Inclusion and Excellence’s (CIE) third comes to a close, the co-chairs of the committee, Associate Professor of Art Lisa Collins and Associate Professor of Political Science Katherine Hite, presented the preliminary results of th...

By: Rose Hendricks

Representatives from the SLAM Collaborative, the company responsible for the renovation of Davison House, visited a Study Break for the dorm on Dec. 2 to hear feedback on the renovation. Prior to their visit, the company sent Davison residents a survey, l...

By: Matthew Brock

“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 o...

By: Caitlin Clevenger

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 ...

By: Eliza Hartley

The Senior Gift Committee announced at the 99 Nights party last Saturday evening that the Class of 2010’s gift will be an endowment fund used to supplement scholarships in the name of 2010. The announcement was met with rousing support. “We li...

By: Jillian Scharr

Throughout this semester, different groups on campus have been debating how best to address the College’s need for internal change in light of the recent economic downturn. Most recently, select members of the faculty collaboratively drafted a lette...