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Volume 165 | Issue 7 | April 2, 2026 | miscellanynews.org | | The Miscellany News is back with another (partly foolish) newsletter! Each week's articles will be delivered right to your inbox. If you know of anyone who would be interested in receiving this service, please share it with them at this link. | | ALLISON LOWE | Vassar College’s Center for Career Education (CCE) recently hosted its first annual Senior Career Connections (SCC) for the Class of 2026. This new-and-improved version of SCC focuses on giving students a glimpse of what their postgraduate lives may hold:) linework tattoos, unemployment and endless nights out in Bushwick dive bars. The event took place over the weekend of Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29. Hosted within the Scandi-chic splendors of the new Dede Bartlett Center for Admission and Career Education, SCC treated graduating seniors to a variety of career panels, workshops and networking opportunities, all based around the average life of a recent Vassar graduate. Representatives from the CCE told The Miscellany News that they were inspired to plan this event after noticing that previous graduating classes had left Vassar unprepared for the “real world,” saying:) “In this day and age, we cannot ethically tell our seniors that they will all be granted stable, entry-level jobs at respectable companies… They need to be ready to face the reality that is waiting for them.” | | Image courtesy of Public Domain Images. | | GRACE FINKE | In the midst of Vassar’s flourishing rock and indie-folk student music scene, three students have decided to take a different approach. Consisting of Johnny Michel ’26, Cate Shrub ’28 and Phiona Pear ’27 [Disclaimer:) Pear is a Senior Editor for The Miscellany News], jüxtæpøsïtìôñ describes their music as boldly avant-garde, recklessly experimental and fearlessly consequential. | | Phiona Pear/The Miscellany News. | | JAY FU | Sporting a striped band of dyed hair in the shape of a pair of headphones, April Harper Grey, known professionally as underscores, sits for a creator interview with Our Generation Music prior to the debut of her third studio album “U.” Nine minutes into the 24-minute long video, the host provides underscores with a printout of a post authored by @headphoneemoji on X: “is anyone else so scared for the new underscores album What if it changes music forever” | | SOPHIA MARCHIOLI | On Friday, March 27, The Hellp returned to New York on tour with their newest album, “Riviera.” The indie electronic duo packed the house at Brooklyn Steel with young fans decked out in their edgiest adornments. The venue, with its wide floor and a balcony above for those not interested in head- bashing, was the perfect setting for the mosh pit that ensued. The duo effectively hypnotized the crowd into a state of constant jumping, appreciating the music and the new record, as they kept randomly echoing the word “Riviera” over the microphone. | | SYDNEY JONES | Geese. Loud. Obnoxious. Residents of New York. An especially prevalent topic on the Vassar College campus last semester. Aggressive?—perhaps. Unable to perform on “Saturday Night Live” due to an “inability to account for interspecies differences,” or so I have been told by Lorne Michaels. That is right, I am not talking about the band behind widespread tax evasion cases this year, but rather their avian namesake. With most of the geese gone from our quad, leaving us with a nicer smell but noticeably fewer opportunities to watch nervous tour groups navigate around the gaggles, it seems most of The Miscellany News’ readership has flown away with them. Full paper baskets sit untouched across our campus, leaving the hard work of our staff and our otherwise pro-Geese—band and bird—sentiments unappreciated. | Sydney Jones/The Miscellany News. | GRACE FINKE | In an environment as eclectic as Vassar College, many of us have experienced the natural flicker of intrigue when encountering someone with a unique personal ethos. While we may typically think little of it before moving on, the podcast “Answering Machine” unpacks this curiosity and transforms it into a profound dialogue. Hosted and produced by seniors Bridgette Nally and AJ Seedansingh, “Answering Machine” is an interview-based podcast exploring diverse beliefs, ideas and lifestyles of both the Vassar community and soon beyond, aimed to educate listeners and broaden their perspectives. | | Image courtesy of of AJ Seedansingh ’26. | | ISABEL HOLMES | Vassar College has returned to life after the first full week of classes back from spring break. One week ago today, campus looked very different with students out on vacation and only a few staying behind. I wanted to know how people identify their home— where is home for Vassar students? I set out to ask Vassar students to identify where their “home” is by talking about their spring breaks. | | SYDNEY JONES | “Wellness is a community effort,” said Office Specialist at Student Living and Wellness (SLW) Stacy Ripo when I sat down with her on Friday to discuss the exigence behind last week’s third annual Women’s Health Expo, hosted by the Women’s Center. Held Wednesday, Mar. 25 from 3 to 7 p.m., the Expo involved tabling and representatives from a variety of campus and community health and wellness organizations. The event was designed for students to stop by, gather information about available services and speak with peers, specialists and administrators from offices on campus and in the greater Poughkeepsie area. | | Sydney Jones/The Miscellany News. | | EMMA DAROSA | The Vassar Senior Events Director, Seynour Evants ’26, has made an exciting and intriguing announcement. On Wednesday, April 1, during an impromptu press conference on PB and J’s lawn, Evants announced that he’s planned an all-new senior event for the class of 2026 to enjoy. You’ve heard of the Sunday scaries, but why not be scared on Saturday too? That’s right: on Saturday, April 4, take a break from nursing your 50 Nights hangover and go enjoy 49 Nights! Have a blast on Friday celebrating 50 nights until graduation, and on Saturday, head to the Villard Room to bask in the terror of getting ready to be officially “postgrad.” | Emma daRosa/The Miscellany News. | WREN BUEHLER | Y’know, life used to be pretty simple. War didn’t happen, or at least it didn’t happen to people who mattered, or at least it wasn’t reported on, or at least I didn’t care about it. But these days, it seems war is all we can talk about, for reasons I don’t totally understand but I think are related to the newly-prohibitive prices of my monthly crude oil bath. It seems you can’t go 10 feet without hearing about the preventable deaths of children, or the undemocratic removal of foreign heads of state, and frankly, I was getting pretty annoyed with it. But I’m a Vassar student, and an avowed progressive, and I’m willing to post any thinkpiece if it means an end to injustice. | | AIDAN MCEACHERN | According to a new story in The Miscellany News, an article in the most recent edition of the newspaper references itself. | | OFFICE FOR UPGRADING CAMPUS | This message is on behalf of OFUC also known as the Office for Upgrading Campus. Many of you have probably noticed that the Deece now features fancier ice cream and speakers. We have received many messages along the lines of “I live in Raymond and can’t get a quality shower but you put speakers in the Deece? Make it make sense!” So that’s what we’re going to do. We are embracing transparency and are giving you the list of things we have to do before we can renovate Raymond. | | | CHLOE ROGERS, LUKE JENKINS |
Grass inside my shoe — Wooden stick like a beaver. Spoons debut at “Sweets” | | ELI LERDAU | The life of a writer is no easy life. Simply ask Ernest Hemingway. We at The Miscellany News have grown to understand this. The combination of deadlines, the stress of writing and balancing our journalistic practice with our collegiate commitments is frankly one of the great struggles of mankind. However, with the rise of new technologies, a solution to this crisis exists. This solution is, as all great new technologies are, highly controversial. Nevertheless, in this essay, I will paint a clear and convincing picture of why and how we as writers can change The Miscellany News and change journalism forever by embracing AI. | | | ABBIE ZHANG | “Do women ejaculate?”
Independent filmmaker M.M. Serra poses this question to the room. The audience bursts into laughter, while fellow panelist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh covers her face with her hands and tries to redirect the conversation. I had come for 'Women's Work: preserving independent film and video histories'—but this, too, was seminal women's work. Serra’s provocation exposed a connection between sexuality and filmmaking that clearly resonated with the room. | | SETH JENKINS | Francis Fukuyama, an American Political Scientist and Philosopher, asks whether history has reached its endpoint—whether the major contradictions of human life have been resolved within liberal democracy. Famously, his answer is yes. Fascism and communism have been defeated. What remains, in his view, is a world moving unevenly but inevitably toward a single political and economic form. Everything else is merely an event along the way. | | HENRY FRANCE, CASEY MCMENAMIN | As first reported by The Miscellany News, NBA superstar and Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James has announced his commitment to continue his athletic and academic career at Vassar College, joining the Class of 2030 in a shocking move that has been verified by Vassar College and Vassar Athletics. James will be trading in his basketball shoes for golf spikes as he takes on a new challenge: the game of golf. James has only recently picked up the sport, but it has quickly evolved into an obsession of his. The 41-year-old four-time NBA champion told The Miscellany News in an exclusive interview that he will be retiring from the NBA after this season to become the first Vassar men’s golf athlete as the school is establishing a men’s golf team. Declaring for the NBA draft out of high school, James maintains his four years of NCAA eligibility. The move is surprising, but it is not altogether unbelievable. | | BENJAMIN KAPLAN | Well, another mediocre All-Star break has passed. The most notable events, if, like me, you did not care to watch, were the hilariously underwhelming dunk contest and the “KD Files” unfolding on X formerly Twitter, where All-Star Kevin Durant might have been exposed for talking smack about his teammates on a burner account. Regardless, we are nearing the stage of the season where we can safely look both forward and backward to ascertain what is going on with each team and who might win it all this June. | | | | |
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