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“On Thursday, Dec. 4, The Miscellany News published a report detailing Vassar College’s plan to redevelop 2.24 acres of ...
12/17/2025

“On Thursday, Dec. 4, The Miscellany News published a report detailing Vassar College’s plan to redevelop 2.24 acres of downtown Arlington. The administration alleges that a significant number of students chose not to attend Vassar because of the current state of downtown Arlington. An unnamed source tells us another factor is at play: “Conservative applicants simply don’t want to attend Vassar because of the progressive atmosphere,” they told The Misc. “We’ve proposed creating a welcoming environment for them, including ICE detention facilities, Tesla dealerships, animal slaughterhouses and firearm manufacturing factories.” Administrators are also in talks with a Saudi Arabian contractor over the feasibility of setting up an oil refinery at the Preserve”

Read Noah Daube-Valois’s “Vassar redevelopment includes building Tesla dealership” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/38fus77r

“On Nov. 20, 2025, President Bradley made a college-wide announcement, canceling all classes for the week. Students were...
12/17/2025

“On Nov. 20, 2025, President Bradley made a college-wide announcement, canceling all classes for the week. Students were informed they were now enrolled into ERAD 211: “Eradication of the EVIL MENACE!” The Evil Menace, the President proclaimed, is a “strange species of spotted three-foot tall aliens with no arms, or legs, who [had] built a Death Ray currently aimed at Rockefeller Hall.” When asked for an explanation on how these limbless aliens had managed to construct such complex technology—or really, any technology at all—she declined to comment. Instead, she brought her husband onto the scene, who announced that armaments available for student use would be deployed at strategic drop locations around campus, like the Library, the other Library ‘and that really long boring building only the Chem majors go to’”

Read Evan Seker’s “President Bradley unites students against Evil Menace” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/3y3acxj6

“Vassar’s very own Office of (Inter)national Programs is excited to launch a brand-new cross-cultural immersion program ...
12/17/2025

“Vassar’s very own Office of (Inter)national Programs is excited to launch a brand-new cross-cultural immersion program in partnership with Wesleyan University. Vassar is known for its comprehensive, full-life approach to engaged global citizenship, which is why students will be offered a chance to immerse themselves in a new way of life at Vassar-Wesleyan Marist.”⁠
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Read Anna Berggren’s “Vassar launches new study abroad program at Marist” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/24huunsn⁠

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“Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and for many of us, our relatives have come and gone with it. Not everyone here com...
12/16/2025

“Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, and for many of us, our relatives have come and gone with it. Not everyone here comes from a leftist utopia. Many of us go home to towns full of racist, homophobic insane people preying on our downfall. I want to speak to you, my brethren. Those born into an NPR-listening household need not read on. The holidays present a practically perfect opportunity to release some pent up anger. There’s no shortage of ways to get people yelling at the dinner table. Yelling at old people is great, I get that! Still, as we enter winter break, I want to offer all of you black sheep a few more creative ways to stir the pot this holiday season”

Read Emma daRosa’s “Your guide to stirring s**t this holiday season” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/y7pb7dzn

“As the renovation of the Library’s 24-hour section draws to a close, Vassar College has announced plans to create a new...
12/16/2025

“As the renovation of the Library’s 24-hour section draws to a close, Vassar College has announced plans to create a new 24-hour section in the Gordon Commons dining hall, commonly referred to as the Deece. The new section will consist of the west side of the first floor, from the dishroom and soda machines over to the window, colloquially referred to as the “straight side” of the dining hall”

Read Josie Wenner’s “Vassar to create new 24-hour section in the Deece” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcmdefy

“We all have one friend who turns the group chat green. Despite their constant defenses, such as that their “camera is b...
12/16/2025

“We all have one friend who turns the group chat green. Despite their constant defenses, such as that their “camera is better” and that they “did not have a choice in which phone they got,” our Android phone-using friends receive never-ending chastisement for their phones from Apple product users”

Read Zoe Anaya’s “Happy Holidays to everyone...including Android users” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/mrfcaayz

“Thursday, Dec. 11 is a very special day. Gamers around the world will gather—on their individual screens—to watch the 1...
12/16/2025

“Thursday, Dec. 11 is a very special day. Gamers around the world will gather—on their individual screens—to watch the 11th Game Awards (TGA) broadcast. If you have ever perused a TikTok comment section under a video showcasing gameplay of a popular release, you will have seen users spam the term “goty,” meaning “Game of the Year.” From among all of the awards given in the TGA ceremony and other award shows in the video game industry, none are as coveted as the GOTY award. Recognition is given in particular to a team of game developers when they win this award, as development is a great investment of time, money and even health. However, because of strange nominations and wins, The Game Awards have become a problematic yearly affair”

Read Jacob Cifuentes’s “‘Black Myth Wukong’ should have won Game of The Year” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/mr84wwry

“Thank you for your recent coverage of our proposed Arlington redevelopment project. We write to not only address concer...
12/16/2025

“Thank you for your recent coverage of our proposed Arlington redevelopment project. We write to not only address concerns raised in the article about communication, but to also provide additional context regarding how Arlington Capital Investors, LLC and our management company, TCD Management Corp., have supported the current tenants. The tenants quoted in the article are valued members of our community, and we take their concerns seriously. However, the article did not fully reflect the support our management company has provided. We would like to offer additional information about our efforts”

Read David Kaminski’s “Letter to the Editor re: article about Arlington redevelopment” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/4zybzv3c

“The purpose of this letter has shifted from when I began to write it. At first, it was an impassioned plea against the ...
12/15/2025

“The purpose of this letter has shifted from when I began to write it. At first, it was an impassioned plea against the plans laid out by Arlington Capital Investors, LLC’s redevelopment proposal, but I have been cheered to learn several new, important pieces of information…”

Read J. Lincoln Daur’s “Letter to the Editor: Re. The Proposed Redevelopment of Arlington” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/2zbm3276

“Earlier this year, I spoke to an Arlington resident whose building is currently planned to be demolished as part of Vas...
12/15/2025

“Earlier this year, I spoke to an Arlington resident whose building is currently planned to be demolished as part of Vassar College’s redevelopment plan. She told me that, before the building on 9 Collegeview Avenue was The Barber Haus NY, Vassar had not expressed interest in purchasing it. However, she said, when the building became The Barber Haus, Vassar suddenly became interested in acquiring the property. The reasons for this, from what she claimed her landlord had told her, was that Vassar thought The Barber Haus “created an unsafe environment,” and that they wanted to buy the building “to rein it in.” Her landlord then shared that part of Vassar’s criteria for purchasing Arlington property is whether the properties and people who occupy them ‘fit the theme of the neighborhood’”

Read Hadley Amato’s “Addressing Arlington Redevelopment” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/ycx465be

“Images from Buenos Aires have circled the world: Argentinians flooding the streets, pots and pans clanging, banners unf...
12/15/2025

“Images from Buenos Aires have circled the world: Argentinians flooding the streets, pots and pans clanging, banners unfurled. What headlines call “protests of austerity” is, in reality, something far larger and older. It is a struggle over who gets to shape the destiny of this country and whether foreign interests will continue to dictate its economic future under the guise of “reform.” The U.S. involvement in Argentina today echoes patterns of domination that have shaped Latin America for generations. The crisis is not only economic—it is part of a long history of foreign interference that has repeatedly undermined national sovereignty.”

Read Inezz Rozo’s “Analyzing Neo-colonialism in Argentina” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/yybzjynu

“The College Football Playoff (CFP) is the culmination of this season of college football, a sport increasingly influenc...
12/14/2025

“The College Football Playoff (CFP) is the culmination of this season of college football, a sport increasingly influenced by money and power, as Casey McMenamin and I wrote last year. The CFP began its current form in 2014 with a four-team field, replacing the Bowl Championship Series in which the top two teams played in one of the New Year’s Six bowls (Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Peach Bowl and Fiesta Bowl)”

Read David Bray’s “Previewing the 2025 College Football Playoffs” by clicking the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/3vuhepdx

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