A few months back Vassar thoroughly embarrassed itself when a ‘technical glitch’ delivered 70 acceptance letters to high school seniors the world over–by mistake. Now U.C.L.A. has been struck by the same mysterious case of the stupids. If anything, the California school’s boo-boo was worse, since this time 894 high school students had their hopes raised, then dashed: Read More
From Vassar’s sesquicentennial celebration
Vassar College recently ruined the weekends of applicants around the world–by sending out more than 70 mistaken acceptance letters to students who had applied for early decision admission. Students from Singapore, Tunisia and the U.S. all went through something of a roller coaster ride due to a basic clerical error: Read More
“We finally took the plunge!” The eager first-time homeowner, Gavin Parks, told The Observer. The mergers and acquisitions consultant was referring to his recent $1.6 million purchase at 61 Jane Street, but he may well have been referring to the other recent plunge he and wife, Elizabeth, took—their June nuptials. Indeed, Read More
It’s hard to imagine that the founders of the National Model United Nations program intended things to be quite so real.
During a five-day convention this week at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square—the second-to-last Model U.N. session of the Bush years—the American delegation fairly hijacked the proceedings, seizing control of the individual commissions Read More
Considering all the trouble cartoons have caused in the world lately, it was with some trepidation that I entertained James Mundy’s request. James is both a friend and the director of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and he called a few weeks ago to ask permission to borrow some of my Read More
Considering all the trouble cartoons have caused in the world lately, it was with some trepidation that I entertained James Mundy’s request. James is both a friend and the director of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, and he called a few weeks ago to ask permission to borrow some of my Read More
The librarians at a quiet public library on eastern Long Island have spent a lot of time recently assisting big-city reporters looking for the 1976 West Islip High School yearbook. That’s because the yearbook contains a picture of one Enrico Lazio-a cherubic young man with a bad 70′s haircut and a bow tie who was Read More
