The University of Vermont's Independent Voice Since 1883

The Vermont Cynic

The University of Vermont's Independent Voice Since 1883

The Vermont Cynic

The University of Vermont's Independent Voice Since 1883

The Vermont Cynic

April 11, 2013

When people are gunning down elementary schools and bank executives are making millions at the expense of families, it is said we are living in a Godless age.Maybe it is more accurate to say the times...

Greeks do good

April 4, 2013

ÊExcellence in community service is on our shores.With the growing prominence of UVMÕs new club, SHORE, we are continually reminded about how much community service UVM students devote their time to.What...

Go local, ski small

March 27, 2013

ÊVermontÕs own heritage is slowly melting away.The corporate world that Vermonters and UVMers have met with such resistance is hitting us where weÕre most vulnerable Ñ on the slopes.Ski resorts are...

UVM’s identity crisis

March 21, 2013

 If the University goes further with an initiative to focus on the three ÒSpires of ExcellenceÓÑ complex systems, food systems, and neuroscience and behavioral healthÑ we hope that the quality...

College media loses its liberties

January 30, 2013

Up north, college journalists access to information is going south.McGill University filed a motion Dec. 7 that would allow it to deny access to information requested by The McGill Daily, Concordias The...

Amp up campus security

January 24, 2013

Vermonters may just be too nice.After several recent incidents involving trespassing, the Vermont way of holding doors is starting to look like a problem. But is it really the students fault?The Universitys...

Corporate warming; the price of buying

January 17, 2013

Water bottles are gone, but were still doomed.Both Burlington and the United States as a whole have recorded 2012 as the warmest year on the books. Burlington broke the previous mean temperature record...

No new messages: CatAlert drops ball

December 6, 2012

At least we know were safe from toy guns and bears that might not actually be bears.So the University dropped the ball twice in one night no CatAlert and an apparent technical difficulty that prevented...

Water too smart to evade the ban

November 29, 2012

The day of reckoning is almost upon us. With the end of this semester also marks the final days of bottled water on campus. The students have spoken, and bottled water is history kind of.Bottled water...

Divesting from oil, working together

October 25, 2012

A few savvy students recently took a look at the stocks UVM invests in. The findings? There are a few black marks on our very green campus.They argue that a university cannot preach sustainability when...

Mr. President step up with the specifics

October 17, 2012

We at the Cynic see great potential in President Thomas Sullivans ability to do great things for our University, but he needs to get specific.When UVM President Sullivan took office, he focused the beginning...

Where are all of the protesters?

September 27, 2012

A year after our campus was first wrapped up in the fight of the 99 percent versus the one percent, is Burlington still occupied?If the Occupy movement is still in full swing, they are hiding it well.A...

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