Even before Facebook’s one billion dollar acquisition of  Instagram, many Vassar students were using the popular photo-sharing program to snap pictures of Vassar’s beautiful campus. Check out the perfect views that students captured walking to class or bored in the library, with the convenience of their cell phone. Now that Instagram has expanded beyond iPhone and made itself available to Android users, there is sure to be even more shots of Vassar circulating the social media tool.

Photography by Matt Ortile ’14, Ruby Cramer ’12, Madeleine Little ’12 and Madeline Zappala ’12.

Although the weather has been teasing us this week with thunderstorms and wind chills making us question whether spring has really arrived, the foliage on campus makes a true statement.  The flowers are out: spring is in bloom. Keep your eyes out for the beautiful colors popping up around campus as the weather gets warmer and warmer and we get more convinced that spring has arrived at Vassar.

Photography by Rachel Garbade ‘ 15.

This week, Philaletheis presents a student production of Fat Men In Skirts, a play by contemporary American playwright Nicky Silver.  Vassar’s production of the play, to take place in the Shiva this Thursday through Saturday, was directed by Andrew Rovner and stars seniors Evan Glenn and Kathee Buxton, as well as freshmen Kelly Schuster and Ben Olneck-Brown. Described by Silver as ” a love story albeit a rather unconventional one,” Fat Men in Skirts is a show you should be sure to see.  Read more about the play in this week’s Art section of the Miscellany News.

Photography by Madeline Zappala ’12.

This spring break, along with the many students traveling to far away lands to escape the normalty of campus life or home life, one international studies class escaped to Cuba, with student visa for the purposes of studying.  The group has been preparing for their trip in the class “Cuban Transitions: Heritage, Ecotourism, and Cultural Transformations in the 21st Century,” where they studied Cuban tourism, economy, agriculture, art and culture.  Faculty Colleen Cohen (Anthropology/Women’s Studies), Liza Paravisini (Hispanic Studies/Environmental Studies), and Leslie Offutt (History) came together in the teaching the students and guiding them through this unique experience.

Photography by Jessica Ditmore ’14.