Vassar Urban Legends
A student hung herself in the bell tower of Main Building.
Mike D. from the Beastie Boys threw a keg off a balcony in the Jewett dorm.
Vassar is a clothing–optional campus.
The largest cocaine bust in NY State occurred on a hallway in Main building in the early '90s. The hallway is now known as “Coke Alley.”
Vassar is the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest suspended tree branch.
The hallways in Main were built wide enough that if the school failed, Matthew Vassar could turn it into a brewery.
The poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, class of 1917, dramatically threw herself out of the tower (her fall broken by the third-foor roof).
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