YOU ARE WHERE YOU EAT: Dining halls often conjure up images of steam tables stacked with gray meats, gooey side dishes, and salad bars spilling over with iceberg lettuce. At Vassar’s All Campus Dining Center (ACDC), students nosh on pizza topped with homemade sauce from local tomatoes and basil, enjoy omelets made from cage-free eggs, and pour hormone-free milk on their cereal, knowing it came from cows that graze in the Hudson Valley...
JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS Last summer, 20 students learned first-hand about human service work as they joined the staffs of over a dozen local community service organizations. Now in its 10th year, the Community Fellows Program is organized by the Field Work Office and funded by the Dyson Foundation and the college. During the year, students have the opportunity to volunteer and work in the community at dozens of organizations...
NEW STUDENTS MOVE PAST FRESHMAN FEARS Move-in Day, Aug. 25, is a day like no other for the 682 freshman entering as Vassar College’s Class of 2011. Temperatures lingering above 90 degrees, an endless line of cars chock full of dorm goods and the energetic Strong girls screaming “Honk If You Love Vassar,” met us as we arrived on campus.
College freshmen all face myriad fears upon entering...
SERENDIPITY AND CIRCUMSTANCE IN THE CRAFTING OF A CAREER Crouched beneath a tight rock overhang, Lucy Johnson carefully measures the length and width of the dark space surrounding her. For the past year, the professor of anthropology has been working with students at the Mohonk Preserve to survey the ridge and identify rock shelters used by some of the earliest people as they moved through the Shawangunks...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN For cross country runner Colin Sanders ’08, 2006 felt like a dream. He had only been running since the end of his sophomore year in high school and decided late in his senior year to continue cross country in college. Cast in the shadows of some of Vassar’s strongest runners, Sanders didn’t stand out his first two seasons, but he stuck with it. Then, in the beginning of his junior year, things began to change...
FORMER NBA STAR JOHN AMAECHI: Former NBA star John Amaechi spoke about his career and new memoir Man in the Middle at Vassar in October. Not only is Amaechi the first (and still the only) NBA player to have come from Great Britain, he was also the first to come out publicly as a gay man. His new book chronicles his journey from an overweight kid in Manchester, England, to a rising NBA power forward and center for the Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Utah Jazz. During his visit to Vassar, he held a compelling workshop with the college’s athletics staff, gave a campus-wide talk, and attended a reception at Blegen House, the college’s LBGTQ resource center, where students joined him for tea and desserts.