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- The school's 23 Division III sports teams are known as the Brewers. They are named for Matthew Vassar's occupation.
- John F. Kennedy reputedly visited Vassar a number of times while
he was an undergraduate at Harvard. (This would have been a decade before Jackie went
there, however.) Mary Meyer, a woman
known to have been a mistress of Kennedy while he was President, was a Vassar graduate. She was murdered under mysterious
circumstances in 1964.
- The original colors of the college were pink and grey, intended to symbolize "the rose of sunlight breaking through the gray
of women's intellectual life." After Vassar became coeducational, the pink was darkened to maroon.
- The Group,
a controversial novel by Mary McCarthy class of ’33, follows the
lives of 8 Vassar graduates. Very little of the book, though, actually takes place at Vassar. It was made into a movie by
Sidney Lumet, released in 1966.
- The opening flyby in the movie The Muppets Take
Manhattan is over the Vassar campus and Kermit graduates from "Muppet University" on the steps of the Vassar dining hall. In
addition, the opening scene of The Time Machine was filmed at
Vassar and all the etxras for that scene are Vassar students. Vassar is also mentioned in the films Moonraker, Sabrina, Police Academy, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, the television series The Simpsons and Spin City and numerous other television shows
and movies. It is usually associated with defining well-educated women in society.
- Vassar has a world class art collection. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
 is run as a independent museum and is open to the public.
- The campus is a registered aboretum. There are over 200 tree species spread over 100 acres (400,000 m²) of forest
land.
- Except for Strong House, the one all-female dormitory, all of the student resident halls at Vassar are co-ed and have co-ed
bathrooms.
- Following World War II Vassar enrolled a total of 152 veterans as part
of the G.I. Bill of Rights.
- Vassar maintains a 60/40 to 65/35 Female/Male ratio amongst its student body.
- Mike Diamond of the Beastie Boys went to Vassar for six months. He was
expelled after throwing a keg from the 9th floor of the Jewett's tower.
- Anne Hathaway (actress) was a student at
Vassar until 2005, when she transfered to NYU.
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