February 2012
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January 2012
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The 10 Colleges With The Best Discussions:... →
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SLC #1!
December 2011
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September 2011
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“William Van Duzer Lawrence, 84, retired Manhattan drug and hotel man, last month read a magazine article which enhanced a major apprehension of his thoughtful age. Young women of intellect, college women (said the article), were more and more avoiding what Mr. Lawrence believes is “their real career”—marriage. Spurred, Mr. Lawrence did what he had long thought of doing. He...
August 2011
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The Princeton Review released its annual college rankings lists earlier this month, including lists of the top 20 schools with the most religious and least religious students.
The top five schools with the least religious students are: 1) Bennington College in Bennington, Vt. 2) Reed College in Portland, Ore. 3) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. 4) Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 5)...
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Debate about the liberal arts in the Los Angeles...
An interesting article was printed in the LA Times last week about the liberal arts. What do you think?
“If recent trends hold true, most of the 3 million freshmen starting at U.S. colleges this fall will choose majors that prepare them for careers rather than majors in the liberal arts. Department of Education data show that students are opting for engineering, education or criminology...
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Further proof that Westlands is the X-Mansion
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July 2011
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Save the Sarah Lawrence Course Catalogue
The Official Petition to Retain the Sarah Lawrence College Course Catalogue for 2011-2012 and Beyond
“Remember, if you will, move-in day your first year. (If you can’t remember, go dig out your student ID, look at your grinning, baby-faced self on it, and then return to reading.) Remember, tucked in the back of the packet you were given, a slim paperback that you flipped through,...
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marshall field ghost story
From Leah Mahony, SLC class of 2008:
here’s a ghost story from our first semester. we were in marshall field one evening with a friend who was the monitor. everything was normal upstairs since she had last checked; no one had gone up or down. we went up the stairs and the painting that normally hung there, a large portrait of a man, had been turned upside-down. the painting was so large that...
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A Sarah Lawrence Movie
“Sarah Lawrence College was released three years ago from the protective custody of Vassar’s President Henry Noble McCracken (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), its eight-year-old feet set firmly on the path of progressive education. Ever since then, the college has wanted to record in film a “sustained visual explanation” of itself. Last week the wish was fact.
Shown for the first...
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“It is not enough anymore to just go to camp to have fun and make friends and improve independence and self-esteem,” Mr. Black says. “Some parents want actual takeaways. They want to see skills, achievements, patches and certificates.”
“Fun? Friends? Self-esteem?! What do you think this is—Sarah Lawrence??”
—via Gawker
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A Marshall Field ghost story
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sarahlawrencegirls:
Marshall Field, the Sarah Lawrence music building and home to fabled ghosts. Do you have a Marshall Field ghost story?
I spent a lot of time in this building around 2 am, just before closing time. Once, a security guard came to lock up and kick me out, and I turned off a light switch behind me in the practice room. The security guard jumped about a foot...
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June 2011
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“THE YEAR IN WHICH President MacCracken founded the Vassar Summer Institute of Euthenics, 1926, was the same one in which he led a group of persons in the application for a temporary charter for a junior college in Bronxville, New York, to be called Sarah Lawrence College. The two events were closely connected, and both stemmed from MacCracken’s desire to further...
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Arianna Huffington: 2011 Commencement Address,... →
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The media queen, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, speaks to the graduating class of Sarah Lawrence College on the importance of connectedness, empathy and wisdom in this generation of young adults to take charge and discover the leader in the reflection of the mirror.
“…to quote this great sage will.i.am ‘We used to consume news and information sitting on the...
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“Even the people who don’t have style at a liberal arts college know at the very least to wear Doc Martens and a floral dress. The worst dressed person at a school like NYU or Sarah Lawrence is the best dressed person at a place like Michigan State.”
-Thought Catalog
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‘Cliffe Scores Sarah Lawrence for Over-Emphasis on Individual
Education at Sarah Lawrence is characterized by a “frightening concentration on individualism” at the expense of scholastic excellence, according to a Radcliffe student who spent last week at the college.
“I don’t know that this great emphasis on each girl as a single soul is healthy,” declared...
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