A Decade at Vassar

Introduction

A ten-year prospectus of Vassar College

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The Miscellany News website of 2000.

To look back on the past ten years, The Miscellany News has presented just a few of the successes, failures and controversies that have helped shape Vassar to become the College we know today. Since 2000, Vassar has witnessed a globally devastating terrorist attack, the rise of the World Wide Web, the coming of a new War, and the inauguration of the first African American President to the White House. On campus, new organizations were formed, facilities were renovated, the student government was restructured, issues of race and sex permeated debate and Vassar welcomed its own new president into office. Browse through the years on the left to review this remarkable decade.

Written by Ruby Cramer, Editor in Chief
Designed by Eric Estes, Design and Production Editor

2000

The 2000 Elections cause upset on campus

The Miscellany News, Nov. 10, 2000

On the night of Nov. 7, Vassar students anxiously awaited the results of the 2000 United States Presidential Election. Following voting irregularities and a controversial recount in the state of Florida, the country elected George W. Bush as President in what was the closest election since 1876. According to a Miscellany News poll from that week, 82 percent of Vassar students participated, with 57.6 percent voting for Democratic candidate Al Gore, 15.5 percent for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and 3.4 percent for Bush. “The day after the national election was a sad day at Vassar College,” wrote then Miscellany Features Editor Alexandra Berzon ‘01, now a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist at The Wall Street Journal. “Students and professors alike walked around the College Center appearing bleary eyed from staying up most of the night to find the results, and depressed from the fact that for most people, their candidate had most likely lost the election.”

Students given right to vote locally

In the fall of 2000, Dutchess County college students were finally given the right to vote locally, following the appointment of Republican elections commissioner David Gamache, a strong proponent for student voting rights. The event was a momentous one for many at the College. “I don’t want to vote by absentee ballot because I don’t want to feel absent,” said Heidi Handelsman ‘03 in the 11.03.00 issue of the Miscellany. “I want to be there with the other voters in Poughkeepsie, showing them that I have opinions and that I care. Taking a walk all the way down to the elementary school to vote in a booth makes me feel more active than I would feel if I just filled out a card in my dorm and put a stamp on it.” The issue of local voting rights re-entered the pages of the Miscellany this fall when students were challenged at the polls at Arthur S. May Elementary School.

New Athletics and Fitness Center completed

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In 2000, the College completed the 53,000 square foot Athletics and Fitness Center and made renovations to the adjacent Walker Field House, centralizing the Athletics & Physical Education Department and furnishing students with a 1200-seat wood floor gym, an elevated jogging track, a weight training and cardiovascular facility and a fitness room stocked with treadmills, stationary bikes, free weights and machine weights. The push for the new facility came in great part from President Frances D. Fergusson, who made Athletics a top priority throughout her tenure.

2001

September 11 devastates students

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Following the tragic terrorist attacks to the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, Vassar students, administrators, faculty and staff were quick to respond. That morning, the College installed a television set and telephones in the Villard Room, and the following day, President Fergusson called a campus meeting on the library lawn, where community members observed a moment of silence before singing dona nobis pacem and placing flowers around the trunk of the London plane tree. Throughout that week, the Chapel remained open 24 hours a day, Counseling Services held extended hours, students attended candlelight vigils, the Library established a website with collected materials on Sept. 11, the College hosted a lecture by political activist Paul Loeb and many members of the community drafted a letter to President Bush cautioning against the use of force in a war or terror. In the week following the attacks, The Miscellany News showed only the numbers “9.11.01″ on its cover, reflecting the shock of the community and the wider world.

First annual All-College Day held

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Now in its ninth year, the annual All-College Day event was founded in 2001 by the Office of Campus Life and the Campus Life Resource Group to foster community and gather students, faculty, staff and administrators in discussion. “All-College Day is a moment to pause and think about what it means to be a community,” told Associate Dean of the College Ed Pitman to The Miscellany News last year before the campus-wide event.

Vassar begins using Blackboard

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In 2001, Vassar began using Blackboard Inc. and became one of the first colleges to incorporate digital learning software into its classrooms. Since that year, professors have used the software to post announcements, share syllabi, create digital discussion groups and upload class readings. This fall, however—following a recommendation from the Committee on Computing and Education Technology—the College decided not to renew its contract with Blackboard; instead professors and students will work with Moodle, an open-source content management system, a move that will save the College approximately $50,000. Vassar begins using Moodle exclusively starting next academic year.

More from 2001

• National Book Award winner Steven King delivers commencement address
• “The Time Machine” filmed in New England Building, 100 students used as extras
• Vice President for Finance and Administration Elizabeth Eismeier comes to Vassar
• Martha Rivers and E. Bronson Ingram Library built

2002

Women’s golf team formed

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In 2002, when the Athletics & Physical Education Department reviewed its varsity programs, the College decided to add another women’s sport to ensure compliance with Title IX, the 1972 law mandating equal athletic opportunity across sexes. With strong support from students—and with the fully functional Vassar Golf Course on campus—women’s golf was chosen as the new addition to the College’s varsity teams. The Brewers competed for one season at the club level before advancing to varsity status in the fall of 2003.

Barnes & Noble Bookstore debated

Julia Carlton

Throughout the late 1990s early 2000s, the College implemented several changes in its bookstore’s management. Until 1998, two stores existed on campus, the College Store and the Vassar Cooperative Bookshop. While the former was operated internally by the institution—supplying course textbooks, clothing and food—the latter was a cooperative owned by students, faculty and alumnae/i who paid membership dues at the start of each academic year. The cooperative primarily sold trade books not necessarily required for an academic course. In 1998, the cooperative shop was dissolved when the two stores merged. Two years later, the College signed a contract agreement with Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. This decision precipitated  much debate from members of the community, and on April 16, 2002, the newly formed College Bookstore Advisory Committee released a comprehensive Research Report in response to the many “questions and concerns about this newly implemented transition to a contract-managed college bookstore…and the process that led to this decision,” read the report. The committee’s research was utilized again in 2008 when the Urban Studies Majors Committee campaigned against the College’s decision to move the bookstore into the space currently occupied by Juliet Café.

More from 2002

• Jewett House undergoes renovations
• First “Community Works” campaign raises $68,004 for national charities
• 2002 Senior Class Gift is Matthew’s Bean
• First Modfest held on campus

2003

Campus confronted by Iraq War

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From the moment the Iraq War was declared in the spring of 2003, Vassar students took action, holding numerous protests and writing letters to the White House advocating for a peaceful solution in Iraq. That spring, the Miscellany editorial board spoke out against the War in its staff editorial, reflecting the spirit of many students in the community. Throughout the next four years, more activism continued on and off campus. In 2005 and again in 2007, students joined hundreds of thousands of protestors in Washington D.C. for United for Peace and Justice marches, and throughout this period, The Miscellany News printed at least five letters or columns per semester that addressed Iraq. Not all, however, were against the “War on Terror”; one student in a 2004 letter called Vassar activists “self-righteous” and another in a 2007 letter indicted activism itself as “selfish.”

Grade inflation becomes concern at Vassar

In 2003, an ad hoc committee was formed to address grade inflation at the College, an issue that had become more relevant than ever at institutions across the country. That same year, Princeton University found that 47 percent of its awarded grades were A-minuses; Harvard found two years earlier that 91 percent of its students graduated with honors; and a Princeton study found that A-range grades represented 44 to 55 percent of grades given at 11 of the top colleges in the country—Stanford University, University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the eight Ivy League schools. And at Vassar, the average grade point average for graduating classes had risen from 3.12 in 1990 to 3.37 in 2003. In response to the rise, the committee sent a survey to faculty to attempt to remedy the problem. “As I remember,” said Professor of Political Science Richard Born in a Spring 2009 interview with The Miscellany News, “those who responded to the survey thought it was quite serious—they were bothered by grade inflation in a lot of regards.” Today, grade inflation continues to plague Vassar and its peers. According to the Office of the Registrar, last year’s graduating class had an average GPA of 3.48, an unprecedented high for the College.

The Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film built

Tamar Thibodeau

The Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, completed in 2003, was one of Vassar’s most daring and innovative architectural projects to date. Behind the design was renowned Argentinean architect Cesar Pelli, who decided that the former Calisthenium and Riding Acedemy—later renamed Avery Hall—would be demolished, save for its façade, which was stabilized and restored to be one of two main entrances to the Center. The interior of the building was completely rebuilt and included a new 330-seat proscenium theater that now hosts Vassar productions year round.

More from 2003

• Number of noise complaints on campus reaches unprecedented high
• iTunes begins selling songs for $0.99
• Susan Sontag delivers commencement address

2004

Facebook comes to Vassar

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In 2004, after the social networking website launched on Feb. 4, Facebook came to computers across campuses and quickly gained momentum at Vassar and peer schools alike. The original model of six years ago was rudimentary in comparison to the site students use today. There was no “Wall” or chat feature; instead, users could send messages or purchase “Announcement Space” on a network’s sidebar. A year after its launch, the entering class of 2009 was the first to have access to Vassar’s Facebook network before arriving on campus in the fall, and many students used the site over the summer as a way to connect with future classmates before even meeting them in person.

Smoking banned indoors

After adjustments made to New York State law in 2004, the Vassar Drug Education Committee helped initiate a policy change at Vassar that prohibited smoking inside residence halls and other indoor facilities, including Matthew’s Mug, which upset some on campus. In addition, the new policy required that there be no smoking within 25 feet of all entrances to campus buildings, a rule that many officials found difficult to implement.

Rumors of rape dispelled by College

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In the fall of 2004, false rumors spread across campus that six rapes had occurred at Vassar during preceding year. In response to the spurious claims, the Security Department sent an all-campus e-mail quelling the rumor. Director of Counseling Services Sylvia Balderrama was puzzled by the situation. “I hadn’t heard students reporting the rumor—or at least not to us,” she said in a 2004 interview with The Miscellany News. “What kind of conversations were going around campus that flared up to something that Security felt they needed to respond to?” The e-mail from Security was followed by another that was signed by Dean of Students D.B. Brown, former Dean of the College Judy Jackson and the Sexual Assault Violence Prevention Office. The message was meant to educate students about resources available on campus for victims, as several in the Health Education offices were worried that Security’s e-mail may have misled students to believe that rape was not an issue at all on college campuses. “If I were a rape counselor advocate,” said Balderrama, “I would also be pretty inflamed to think that the first year class or anybody might think that there are no rapes on campus, because that is inaccurate.”

More from 2004

• MICA founded on campus in an effort to broaden political debate
• Media Studies becomes multidisciplinary program
• Women’s rugby makes nationals

2005

The Imperialist causes campus-wide controversy

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In September 2005, controversy broke out over an article entitled “Race and Freedom” in the Moderate, Independent and Conservative Alliance (MICA)’s publication The Imperialist. Many students and professors felt that the anonymous article expressed racist and sexist points of view; one major point of contention was a passage in the piece that referred to the ALANA Center and Blegen House as “ghettos” and called the objective of diversity “meritless.” In the following weeks and months, the article in The Imperialist was a constant topic of discussion. In a Miscellany News Staff Editorial from that September, the Editorial Board wrote that the publication was filled with “irreverent and inflamatory material that belied any interest in engaging students on an intellectual level.” Several open forums were held in the College Center and the ALANA Center to discuss the issue, and the Vassar Student Association (VSA) passed a resolution on Sept. 18 strongly recommending that MICA host a forum to discuss the issues raised by the article. The MICA forum was held before October Break, and upon returning to school later that month, the VSA revisited the issue at a Council meeting where they voted to de-authorize the organization. Still later, the discussion continued when UPN 9—a New York television station—aired a news segment on the controversy, and a conservative website, overthrow.com, continued its coverage of The Imperialist as late as February of the next year.

Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast

When Vassar students first arrived on campus for the 2005-2006 academic year, they were confronted with the reality of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29. Students responded immediately by hosting a candlelight vigil on Sept. 2, holding student-led benefits and raising thousands of dollars within one year of the tragedy which affected the lives of so many Vassar students.

President Fergusson announces retirement

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Vassar College President Frances D. Fergusson announced her retirement in February 2005 and left the College in July of 2006 after 20 years in the position, making her Vassar’s third-longest-serving leader behind successive Presidents James Monroe Taylor and Henry Noble MacCracken. Fergusson’s tenure is often remembered for a strong commitment to campus architecture and capital planning; with master’s and doctoral degrees in art history from Harvard University, Fergusson pushed for the completion of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, the Class of ‘51 Observatory and the Athletic and Fitness Center. In addition, under Fergusson’s leadership, the College doubled its number of applicants and tripled its endowment following a record-breaking $206 million fundraising campaign.

2006

President Hill becomes Vassar’s 10th President

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Shortly after President Fergusson announced her retirement in 2005, the College began an extensive national search for her successor that yielded more than 200 candidates. Of those contenders, the Board of Trustees unanimously selected Catharine Bond Hill as the tenth President of Vassar College. Hill succeeded Fergusson on July 1, 2006, and was officially inaugurated in a five-day celebration from Oct. 25 through Oct. 29 that included events for students such as “Cappy and the Chocolate Factory,” a party in the Students’ Building featuring live entertainment and desserts such as “Cappy candy bars,” a cotton candy wall and a chocolate fondue fountain. Hill highlighted her primary goal as improving affordability and access, and also to, as she said at one of her first gatherings with students, “articulate and build a consensus around a vision of an institution.”

Kenyon Hall renovations completed

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The $21 million renovations to Kenyon Hall began in July 2004 and ended nearly two years later in the spring of 2006. The project, funded in great part by alumnae/i gifts, gave way to the 5,700 square foot Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, six “smart” classrooms, three upgraded dance studios, renovations to Vassar’s six International Rules squash courts and one of the only collegiate volleyball gymnasiums in the country.

Matthew Vassar statue installed

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In 2006, the bronze statue of Founder Matthew Vassar was installed on the south lawn in front of Main Building, fulfilling a request made by the Founder one year before his death in 1868. Vassar requested to the Board of Trustees that a seven-foot-tall statue of himself be erected in the circle in front of Main, so that “the magnitude, character and duration” of Vassar endure even after his and the trustees’ bodies were “crumbling in the grave.” President Frances D. Fergusson unveiled the statue, fulfilling Vassar’s wish 139 years later on June 9, 2006.

African Violets join Commencement procession

In March of 2006, it was announced by former Dean of the College Judy Jackson that the African Violets would march at Commencement with the Daisy Chain. Similar to the Daisy Chain, the African Violets are a group of underclassmen appointed by the Council of Black Seniors (CBS) to participate in Senior Week, among other things. Earlier that year, CBS had submitted proposals to both the Vassar Student Association Council and Jackson.

2007

Vassar goes need-blind

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Perhaps one of the most notable events at the College in the last ten years has been its return to a need-blind admissions policy after 10 years of a need-sensitivity. When she first became President of the College, Hill made it clear that of her priorities for Vassar’s future, a robust financial aid program was paramount. “Need-blind is a very important message to be able to tell students,” said Hill in a September 2007 Miscellany News interview. “It is right direction to go in as a way of increasing socioeconomic diversity at Vassar.” The Vassar Student Association first debated a resolution in favor of need-blind at a Council meeting on Dec. 3, 2006. Nearly five months later, Hill announced the decision to go need-blind during her remarks at the Class of 2007 Commencement. “I am particularly pleased today,” said Hill at the Outdoor Amphitheater, “to make the official announcement of a very significant accomplishment this year. With the support of the entire Vassar community, and endorsed unanimously by the Board of Trustees, we have made the decision to return to making admissions decisions without taking into account the financial need of applicants. Vassar’s very founding,” continued Hill, “was based on making a quality education available to those to whom it was previously denied. Starting in 1861, young women, who couldn’t go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, could get a superb liberal arts education at Vassar! And, from the very beginning, resources were available to students and families who needed scholarship assistance.” Indeed, Founder Matthew Vassar bequeathed $50,000 to establish the College’s first endowed scholarship fund, thus paving the way for the need-blind policy that Hill re-implemented in 2007.

VSA Executive Board restructured

On Feb. 18, 2006, the Vassar Student Association (VSA) passed a major amendment to its Constitution. The revision made alterations to Article IV and declared that there be a new sixth position added to the Executive Board: the Vice President for Student Life—an elected student who would be the liaison between the VSA and offices such as Campus Dining, Dean of Studies, Residential Life, Security and Student Employment. The elected student would be responsible for “improving the quality of student life and promoting general student welfare at Vassar College,” according to the original proposal. In addition to the new Executive official, the amendment also renamed the remaining Executive Board positions; Vice President, Academic Executive, Organizational Executive and Financial Executive changed respectively to Vice President for Operations, Vice President for Academics, Vice President for Activities and Vice President for Finance. The changes were made in an effort to increase and emphasize student advocacy, as well as to clarify the internal workings of the governing body. The passed amendment marked the first added position to the Executive Board in 22 years.

Noose found in Jewett House

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On Thursday, Oct. 25, a Residential Operations Center employee walking through the sixth floor of Jewett House discovered that the drawstring cord of a window shade had been fashioned into a noose. That day, Security removed the noose, but the event made a lasting impression on the community. In response to the incident, the Office of Residential Life and the Jewett house team planned a mandatory all-house meeting which was also attended by faculty and former Dean of the College Judy Jackson. The meeting included an open forum, during which many shared their perspectives on racism and suicide. The incident was not the first of its kind at the College; in the three years preceding the noose, three swastikas had been drawn on the walls of dormitories—in Lathrop House in 2005 and in Raymond and Main Houses in 2006.

More from 2007

• Quidditch team formed at Vassar
• Construction of roundabouts continues on Raymond Avenue
• Vassar plans for Bookstore move to Arlington Business District

2008

Obama elected as President of the United States

Molly Turpin

On Tuesday Nov. 4, 2008, the second floor of the Students’ Building (UpCDC) was packed with students anxiously watching election results as voting counts from across the country were reported on MSNBC. Because the students following the election in UpCDC were largely supporting Barack Obama, they cheered frequently as news poured in, and when polls closed in California and it became clear that Obama had taken the election, students joined together, shouting “yes we can” over and over again. When the President-elect took the stage to deliver his acceptance speech, students in UpCDC started chanting “USA.” Although not all at Vassar supported the democratic candidate, there was a unified sense across the entire campus that to elect the nation’s first African American President was a hugely significant moment in history.

Kick Coke sparks campus-wide debate

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For nearly two months in the fall of 2008, the campus debated over the presence of Coca-Cola products at Vassar, after a group of students began the “Kick Coke” campaign, which advocated for the banishment of Coca-Cola from campus. The group presented evidence that in India, Coke bottling plants had polluted water sources, and that in Columbia, paramilitary groups had murdered and kidnapped employees who belonged to unions in Columbia bottling plants. It is unclear, however, whether or not the Coca-Cola Corporation ordered these attacks; nevertheless, members of the Kick Coke campaign argued that Coke was ultimately responsible. On Oct. 26, members from the campaign came to the Vassar Student Association (VSA) Council Meeting and urged the Council to endorse a resolution banning Coke products from campus. At the next Council Meeting—after an hour and a half of debate from Council members and the 30 guests in attendance at the meeting—the Council endorsed the proposal with a close 14-to-8 vote. Following College procedure, the proposal then traveled to the Committee on College Life, where—based on a vote—members would draft either a positive or negative recommendation to the President. After the committee’s meeting on Dec. 3, its members rejected the proposal in a 12 to 5 vote. Aside from sparking campus-wide debate, the Kick Coke campaign also raised concerns about Vassar’s committee structure, as the three-year campaign traveled through many committees and offices before they were able to receive a final decision.

Student blogs gain momentum

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In 2008, student-run blogs were on the rise. Mads Vassar Blog, an “unofficial news and culture blog” established in 2007, continued to gain popularity, and a new blog called Blog 9, appeared on Feb. 18 with nine student contributors chronicling life at Vassar, each one from a different dormitory on campus. In addition, both the Office of Admission and the Athletics & Physical Education Department recruited students to keep their own blogs detailing Vassar student life.

More from 2008

• VSA begins traditions of annual Meet Me in Poughkeepsie and weekly Tasty Tuesday
• Offensive BoredatVassar site taken off Web
• Students adjust to new meal plan
• Gender-neutral housing approved

2009

Global recession hits Vassar, peers

Ruby Cramer

Though it was in 2008 that the economic crisis began with the sale of Merrill Lynch & Co., the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings, the near collapse of A.I.G. and other major losses on Wall Street, it was in 2009 that the recession had its greatest impact on the Vassar community. Like its peers, Vassar saw a jump in students’ financial need and a drop in its endowment. In order to nurse these budgetary losses, College officials were forced to make difficult decisions that often spurred passionate reactions from community members.

Though three-quarters of necessary savings for the 2010-2011 non-faculty salary budget were made through voluntary means, President Hill announced on Sept. 30 that 13 staff positions would still need to be eliminated. Since the announcement, several of the employees whose positions were lost have found alternative employment at the College. The layoffs, however, were met with opposition from a group of students, faculty and staff that came to be known as the Campus Solidarity Working Group. On Oct. 14, the Working Group held a demonstration outside Main Building, during which they presented a list of demands and marched across campus. The demands were ultimately not met or discussed between the Group and the Senior Officers, as members of the Working Group left the scheduled meeting with officials after administrators refused to have the meeting video taped.

One month later, on Nov. 14, the Dean of the Faculty office announced that 14 current non-tenure-track contracts would not be renewed for next year; however, despite fear that the curriculum would shrink next year, it was announced last month that it would actually grow by 24 course sections. In addition to these staffing changes, Baldwin reduced its operating hours, the Atrium stopped service and the Athletics & Physical Education Department announced that the varsity men’s and women’s rowing teams would become club teams next season. In response to the news, the rowing teams immediately went into action, hosting a 120-hour ergathon, raising over $10,000.

With budgetary pressure affecting widespread areas of the College, many students requested that President Hill take a pay cut of some kind to serve as a personal symbolic sacrifice. Although Hill had already given five percent of her 2009-2010 salary to the Annual Fund—a gesture largely unbeknownst to students—Hill announced in a Miscellany News letter to the editor that the following year she would be taking a five percent reduction to her salary.

Most recently, three students began a hunger strike in the lobby of Main on Dec. 8 to protest the 13 staffing cuts. The strike continued for 89 hours, despite the administration’s insistence that staffing policies would not change. Following the strike, students involved released individual statements to The Miscellany News that were met with mixed student reaction.

Davison House fully renovated

Following a year of renovation, Davison House opened its doors to Vassar students again at the start of the fall 2009 semester. Each floor of the dorm now houses a study space, the fifth floor has ceilings with sky-light windows and the basement a fully equipped kitchen. Though the building holds many new features, renovators were careful to maintain the original architectural style of the dorm—there is exposed brick in many of the study spaces and stairwells, there is molding in the rooms, white tiles in the bathrooms and copies of the original twin cupolas still rest atop the building. Last month, 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, most of which was positive.

Ladies of Language mini-course cancelled

In late February of 2009, several students created a mini-course called “The Language of Ladies,” which was intended to help men feel more comfortable about meeting and talking to women from different countries. The subject matter and objective behind the course offended many students on campus, and the course was canceled by Megan Habermann—former Assistant Director of Campus Activities—who wrote a guest column for The Miscellany News during the heat of the controversy. She explained that once the mini-course began, the course material was different from the material that had been proposed to Habermann before the start of the semester. “The Facebook group [formed by students to protest the course] and subsequent information regarding what happened during his session were brought to my attention the morning following his first class by some students and administrators,” wrote Habermann in her column. “Once I was made aware of the situation, I immediately canceled his course. The cancellation was not only because of the offensive nature of the content, but also because we had set parameters together, and he chose to disregard them.”

Vassar embraces social media

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While many colleges approach the burgeoning world of social media with hesitation, Vassar experimented throughout 2009 with how various online networks could aid different offices and divisions. The College has over five accounts on Twitter—such as Vassar College News and Vassar Web Design—and over 15 Facebook fan pages for offices such as Computing and Information Services and Career Development.

More from 2009

• 2008-2009 Noyes House President resigns amid pressure
• H1N1 vaccines made available to all students
• Students challenged at Dutchess County polls
• College announces Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will close for eight months for necessary roof repairs