Vassar Yesterday
Contemplative woman
Quiz time: who is this pensive lady? Is she you, perhaps? Is she a graduating senior, saddened by her impending departure? Or is she an anxious freshman, overwhelmed by the thought of unpacking yet another trunk? Write us with your thoughts. This year, seniors had a lot to think about after hearing the commencement address of Susan Sontag, famed essayist and human rights activist whom the New York Observer called “a better writer, sentence for sentence, than anyone who now wears the tag ‘intellectual.’” — L.D.
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