WHERE WILL I LIVE? WHAT IF MY ROOMMATE SNORES? WHAT IF S/HE IS A SLOB/NEAT-FREAK? HOW WILL I GET ALONG? WILL I MAKE FRIENDS? CO-ED BATHROOMS?!? SERIOUSLY? When you think about it, first-year fears are pretty reasonable. Wherever you live now and whatever your home situation is, it’s home. If your brother snores, you can yell at him. If you’ve got the flu, your mom will make you chicken soup…
HELP FOR HAITI: It was their work with the student organization Pro-Health that brought four Vassar students to Haiti on January 6, 2010. They planned to perform basic health screenings, give physicals, and hand out clothing and other supplies in the villages…
ON THE LINE: There’s a small round window high on the wall of the Atrium Gallery in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar. For Harry Roseman, chair of the Art Department and professor of sculpture and drawing at Vassar since 1981, that window was a starting point…
IT’S MOSTLY IN THE MIND: The new women’s basketball head coach Candice Brown has a piece of paper tacked on the outside of her office door. On it is the preseason coaches’ poll for the Liberty League. Vassar is listed as last. More importantly, though, scrawled next to Vassar are the words: “It’s not where you start, but where you finish.” As a team that finished last season with a 4-21 record and only one league win, things haven’t ended so ideally in the past…
You may know her from the hit TV show Friends, or from movies like The Comeback, Analyze This, or Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion. At Vassar, she’s known as a class of ’85 biology major and a member of the Board of Trustees. Lisa Kudrow will be returning to campus this May to deliver the address at Vassar’s 146th commencement ceremony. Watch an interview Lisa did with students after taping an episode of Fourth Floor Main at youtube.com/vassar.