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Updates for February 25, 2010
Video | Faculty Student Basketball Game Preview: Student Team
By: Elizabeth Jordan, Online Editor
Check out members of the Student Team playing in the Faculty Student Basketball Game.
Video | Faculty Student Basketball Game Preview: Faculty Team
By: Elizabeth Jordan, Online Editor
Check out members of the Faculty Team playing in the Faculty Student Basketball Game.
Updates for February 24, 2010
Miscellany Minute | February 24
By: Molly Turpin
Faculty must vote in favor of athletics proposal at next meeting
By: the Editorial Board
Staff Editorial
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…
Why Vassar chose ‘units’ over credit hours
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’…
This Week in Higher Ed | Feb 18 – Feb. 25
By: Ruby Cramer
Former GW employee arrested for threatening University students and faculty A former George Washington University (GW) mailroom employee was arrested last week after allegedly calling “a University office and [making] threats to ‘kill faculty …
VSA hosts forum on illegal downloading
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 …
ACDC changes location of cashiers to dining entrance
By: Jillian Scharr
New cashier location may reduce cases of theft, says Walker
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 …
Faculty delay vote on athletics proposal until next meeting in March
By: Matthew Brock
Proposal discussed at last meeting, but not voted on
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….
Updates for February 17, 2010
Miscellany Minute | February 17
By: Molly Turpin
Audio slideshow of Vassar news in brief
Kunstemporary Records makes noise
By: Esther Clowney
Kunst, the German term for art, is the root word of John McCartin’s ’11 embryonic record label, Kunstemporary Records. It seems like a strange title for a label that seeks to undermine the concept of a creative class. “Isn’t it dum…
Valentine’s Day sinfully sweet
By: Erik Lorenzsonn
The Big Screen
Valentine’s Day the holiday was honored on my part mostly with apathy, although there was a high point where someone slid Sweet Tarts underneath my door. But let’s face it, when you take the candy out of the equation……
