By: Elizabeth Jordan, Online Editor

Check out members of the Student Team playing in the Faculty Student Basketball Game.  Hear about their basketball experience, their advantages against the Faculty Team, and why they think they'll win Thursday's game. ...

By: Elizabeth Jordan, Online Editor

Check out members of the Faculty Team playing in the Faculty Student Basketball Game.  Hear about their basketball experience, what their advantages are, and why they think they'll win Thursday's game. ...

By: Molly Turpin

By: the Editorial Board

Earlier this month, the Committee on Curricular Policy (CCP) voted to forward a proposal for approval to the faculty that would allow athletes to obtain half an academic credit for their participation in a varsity-level sport. The proposal—which has...

By: Danielle Gensburg

Vassar College veers away from many of its peer institutions in the awarding of academic credit by using the “course unit” to measure academic course credit rather than the credit hour. In order to fulfill the requirements of a bachelor’...

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: 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: Mary Ann Cunningham

Vassar’s recent deer cull has led to heated opinions and vehement letters, most over the ethical question of why the College should take the lives of deer. The public enthusiasm for biodiversity on the Vassar Ecological Preserve is an outstanding te...

By: Margaret Ronsheim

In the interest of promoting open dialogue and providing accurate information, I would like to respond to some of the statements made in recent issues of The Miscellany News by critics of the deer cull on the Vassar Ecological Preserve. Dr. Richard Born, ...

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: Kelly Shortridge

Last week, my co-Editor Angela Aiuto correctly examined the legality of illegal file sharing (“College correct on stronger illegal downloading penalties,” 2.18.10); however, the legality of the issue is, in my opinion, not the main point of co...

By: David Wojciechowski

In her recent article “College correct on stronger illegal downloading penalties” (2.18.10), Opinions Editor Angela Aiuto ’11 hit the nail on the head regarding the moral implications of illegal downloading. It is, for lack of a better w...

By: Joseph Hoffheimer

A year ago, nobody would have thought that Sarah Palin, John McCain’s failed pick for vice president, would still make headlines this long after their crushing electoral defeat. Of course, I would have never anticipated Scott Brown’s election ...

By: Joshua Rosen

I’m not one to give much credence to statements made by terrorist organizations, but when I found a post on the BBC News website dated Jan. 29 that said Hamas was reporting that a “senior Hamas military commander has been assassinated by Israe...

By: Joe Coniglio

If you open up The Miscellany News and turn to the Opinions section, it is a good bet that you are bound to find one or more articles that negatively make reference to—if are not entirely devoted to attacking—former vice presidential candidate...

By: Jay Leff

When I was asked to write an editorial for the Miscellany concerning Vassar College Entertainment’s (ViCE) budget from the perspective of co-President of Hip Hop 101 I knew immediately what needed to be said. Come May, I will have been co-President ...

By: Nate Silver

Sometimes you really can’t beat a classic. Four weeks into the semester, with midterms looming on the horizon and the ability to spend long hours in the kitchen dwindling, everyone could use a bit of simple comfort....

By: David Reuss

As a Division III athlete participating in cross country and track, varsity sports have been and continue to be a major part of my education. I feel that training to master a sport has infinite parallels to mastering a subject in the classroom, and I have...

By: Lita Sacks

Much has been said lately both in support of and in opposition to awarding credit for natural science labs. I could add to the number of articles that spew numbers and facts, tell you what percent of Vassar students are in support of awarding credit, comp...

By: Claire Webb

A nerdy confession: In elementary school, I admired Maria Mitchell—the first astronomy professor at Vassar College, an astronomy enthusiast and the discoverer of a comet—so much that I donned an 19th-century costume and played her in History C...

By: Daniel Combs

Coffee houses are weird and, to some, weirdly wonderful. This article is not about coffee as much as it’s about this particular American phenomenon. The coffee house is a tricky gustatory medium because evaluation of the house atmosphere is subjecti...

By: Kelly Stout

Daniel Ming ’10 speaks like a dancer. He is calm and graceful, measured and lyrical as he describes his summer and semester in Jordan and Palestine, respectively. It’s amazing that he is so calm, really, considering that has not one, but two p...

By: Chloe McConnell

Anisa Kamlani ’11 arrived at the Project Eye-to-Eye mentoring program to find that her mentee shared her passion for designing shoes. “Like every student, if I really want to avoid my homework, I can find just about anything to help me,”...

By: Molly Turpin

The Vassar women’s polo team hoped for their particularly successful season to culminate in a trip to the Northeast Intercollegiate Regional Tournament, to be held at Cornell University on March 12-14. The team stands at 2-7 for the season, and has ...

By: Elizabeth Jordan

With spring on its way, snow days might seem to be a thing of this semester’s past, but the snowfall that began Monday night promises not to let up until the weekend. But in light of this winter’s heavy snowfall and its impact on the Vassar ca...

By: Andy Marmer

This past weekend, the men’s volleyball team hosted their third annual Vassar Volleyball Invitational. For the third consecutive year, Vassar dominated the field and swept the tournament. In the championship match, the Brewers defeated Nazareth Coll...

By: Nik Trkulja

I just don’t care. I sat through all 14 minutes of the Tiger Woods apology not once, but twice this week. I listened as he apologized for having an affair, as he beat his chest claiming he had done wrong and as he lashed out at the media for implyin...

By: Andy Marmer

This weekend the men’s and women’s basketball teams concluded their 2009-2010 seasons. The men’s team finished the season 2-23 (0-14 in Liberty League play), while the women went 9-15 (5-9 in League games). The men’s basketball tea...

By: Mitchell Gilburne

The moment when a swimmer cuts through the chlorinated air and into the blue is the moment in which swimmer extraordinaire, Caroline Shannon ’12, thrives. Shannon calls this the “oh my gosh element” of her sport. This is the time when sh...

By: Molly Turpin

By: the Editorial Board

Last Thursday Feb. 11, Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE) announced that their spring concert will feature the rock band The Flaming Lips. Although the concert is two months away, we must acknowledge that ViCE has outdone itself in planning its most ambi...

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: Carrie Hojnicki

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 s...

By: Erica Licht

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 ...

By: Matthew Bock

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 Foo...

By: Nate Silver

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......

By: Angela Auito

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......

By: Daniel Combs

Sometimes you just need a greasy-ass burger. Sometimes, you also need to top that burger with a mountain of crispy fried starchy goodness. Sometimes, you just need to plow into that meal in a no-nonsense, no-pretense setting. In other words, sometimes you...

By: Kara Voght

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By: Erik Lorenzsonn

Vassar College Entertainment (ViCE) brought two big-time musical acts to campus last semester: the ambient melodies of Grizzly Bear and the poetic hip-hop of Clipse. For their third major concert of the school year, ViCE will provide an evening of pop-roc...