2013 Election Results

Courtesy of The Miscellany News:


Admissions and Financial Aid: Aashim Usgaonkar

Committee on College Life: Emily Bernstein

Residential Life Advisory Committee: Fardeen Chowdhury

Judicial Board:
Paul Weinger
Max Frankel
Jordan Miller
Lane Kisonak

Freshman House Representatives:

Strong: Sophia Wasserman

Davison: Cory Epstein

Raymond: Jake Harris

Noyes: Jenna Konstantine

Main: Alexandra Magill

Lathrop: Natalie Allen

Josselyn: Dan Flynn

Jewett: John Lee

Cushing: no one ran.

Freshman Class Council:

Treasurer: Jason Rubin

Secretary: Raffi Kiureghian

Vice Pres: Matthew Horton

President: Eli Berns-Zieve

Disabling

In this recent article by the Misc (http://misc.vassar.edu/archives/2008/05/vassar_faciliti.html) we learned about Vassar's lack of access for disabled persons, and this is something that should worry all of us. How many dorms have access for disabled people? No Quad dorm, not Joss, not Cushing, and many buildings where we have class also lack access for everyone. And hey, I am not counting those lame elevators in the Quad dorms as "access" - would you want to call security every time you wanted to go up even one floor? Even the new Quad stairs were not even built to be accessible. Am I the only angry one that in 2008 we (yes, we) are not even able to provide all of the students with full access to every building? I come from a school that did not have a lot of money, but it was the country's law that every building had to be accessible to everyone, and the school had to start investing in ramps and elevation-machines for stairs and elevators. Will we have to wait for an alumni/ae to donate money to make this College accessible to everyone or will this institution (and us) take the matter seriously and start changing things around? I would be more than willing to help my friend up the stairs, but that is not the point, the fact is that we should all have the right to be able get wherever we want on this campus if we so desire. So, next time we think about getting swipe machines for the vending machines, why not think of things that actually matter first?

Cheers,
ElCarrà.

Blog9 and Mads in This Week's Misc

And in cited in the same sentence, no less!

Pick up this week's copy, and turn right away to page 9 (appropriately) to read a wonderful story about the rise of campus blogs, written by none other than editor-in-chief Acacia O'Connor herself!

It'll be the most enjoyable read of your life (though we offer no money-back guarantees).

Do it. You won't.
~The Blog9 Team

(Oh, and Acacia, we forgive you for putting a space between "Blog" and "9")

UPDATE: Full article now online here.

Randommmm

Today as I was walking around campus I saw a woman and a WITTO GIWL who was SO CUTE my heart bunched up and squeezed itself and spread fat warm drops of love throughout my chest. I LOVE BEHBEHS

But once they get past age 3, nah-ah. Jumping excitable snots.

And if I really wanted to be creepy, I'd tell you about how Luis was at the Retreat being fabulous with two other people. But I won't. I also won't tell you that he was sitting at the second table directly to the left of the path in the middle of tables.

Let's go to Morocco. On the Marrakesh Express.

The weather is so nice. Relax and be happy.
CJDC

Bad News, Athletes

According to a Misc web update:

"...the Prentiss Field renovations will not likely be completed for the 2008 spring season.

The complex, which will consist of a lighted turf field with an eight-lane track, a press box, two grass fields (one for field hockey and the other to be shared by soccer and lacrosse), a baseball diamond and a baseball practice field, was originally slated to be ready by Sept. 1, 2007."

Full story here.