Straining the Limitations of Meritocracy: A Meditation on Busyness
I am busy. There are eight events on my calendar today—I’m booked from 9:00 this morning to 10:30 tonight. Students at Vassar are busy….
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Appropriation of a Different Kind: Social Justice as a Means to Social Capital
To preface, we accept that the language of this article may present us as hypocritical in our active intellectualization of the subject matter. We…
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Vassar College Security: Over-Policing the Politics of People of Color and Getting Paid to Do It
In light of the racial profiling incident involving three young boys from Poughkeepsie last semester, we as students are being fed bullshit about reparative…
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The 2014 Midterm Election: Just How Bad Was It?
For anyone the slightest bit moderate, this election was a complete and utter disaster. According to the Washington Post, the 114th Congress will be the…
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Justice for Ayotzinapa: A Call for Solidarity in Vassar and Beyond
Mexico has a long history of perpetuating violence against its people to maintain neoliberal and US supremacist government structures. Recently, Mexican citizens have become…
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If Mike Brown was Michelle Brown: Engendering the Fight for Racial Justice
A vision of racial justice that is genuine and viable . . . has to do this across gender and across race. -Luke Harris,…
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Short Memories: Media and the Construction of “Radical Islam”
On August 19th, 2014, the day that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (known as ISIS or simply the Islamic State) uploaded to…
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Consuming Ebola: Media, Myth, and Madness
There is an enduring and guttural fear surrounding the Ebola virus: its symptoms are gruesome, its onset is sudden and there is no known…
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Floated Along in Flood Wall Street: A Vassar Student’s Observations
The ideology of Flood Wall Street was valiant, and it was sound. It was touted by its organizers not as an isolated event, or…
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