Happening Now: UVM board of trustees hold annual meeting and discuss changes to come
October 25, 2019
The group that governs UVM is meeting all day Oct. 25-26 on the University's campus to discuss and vote on changes to come. The group, the board of trustees, meets three times per academic year in October, February and May. This will be President Suresh Garimella's first BOT meeting. Throughout...
SGA looks at tax break for FSL
Zoe Stern, Cynic News Reporter
October 24, 2019
The vice president of SGA and an SGA senator are exploring the possibility of returning fraternities and sororities back to property tax-exemption status in Vermont. The state bill which overturned their tax exemption status was passed in 2014 and took effect January 2017, according to the bill. Before...
10 years later, no sign of DI baseball coming back to UVM
Hayley Rosen, Staff Writer
October 24, 2019
You could hear a pin drop after the 48 UVM Division I baseball and softball players were informed their teams were being cut in 2009. After suffering from the 2008 recession the UVM athletic department had to make $1 million in cuts. This included cutting the varsity baseball and softball teams, ea...
Student safety concerns go unaddressed
Maryann Makosiej and Sawyer Loftus
October 23, 2019
Here's what the city of Burlington and UVM are doing to address safety concerns at the U-Heights, Main Street intersection.
UVM Police Chief remains on leave three months later with no end in sight
Emma Pinezich, Assistant News Editor
October 22, 2019
The head of UVM Police Services remains on paid leave for the third consecutive month, without any explanation of why from anyone, including the police chief herself.
UVM celebrates Vermont’s first Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Ella Ruehsen, Staff Writer
October 21, 2019
Chief Don Stevens and Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan stood at an altar with sweetgrass and a pipe for the Oct. 15 healing ceremony. They had not performed a ceremony on this land for decades. The Abenaki have been in Vermont for thousands of years, but are not a federally recognized tribe. Additionally,...
Here’s why UVM’s timepiece can’t tell time
Irene Choi, Staff Writer
October 21, 2019
It is a brisk fall afternoon at UVM. The Ira Allen clock tower stands tall against the blue sky, its bells ringing as students hurry to their next classes. The time is 3:23 p.m. The clock reads noon. Currently, all four sides of Ira Allen Chapel’s clock tower have different times displayed, none...
SGA places UVM employee in charge of how much SGA members get paid
Staff Report, Cynic News Staff
October 17, 2019
SGA passed a resolution that gives their business manager, a UVM employee, the power to change the amount executive members are paid at their weekly meeting Oct. 15. Blanka Caha, the SGA business manager, now has the power to raise or lower the amount of pay for the treasurer, president, vice president...
A look at UVM’s Boulder Society
Ella Ruehsen, Staff Writer
October 17, 2019
Over a century ago, UVM students came together and decided they needed a way for the student body to directly communicate with the administration. To answer this call, the students founded the Boulder Society in 1905. More than a hundred years later, the SGA has taken over the original role of the...
Who controls your privacy? Students left in the dark over who has access to their data at UVM
Julianne Lesch and Sawyer Loftus
October 16, 2019
“Under the current configuration, even faculty using the system for legitimate purposes may inadvertently see the information that can cause adverse effects for students, including unconscious bias,” the letter stated.
Breaking: Student journalists barred from official meeting with city and University officials
Sawyer Loftus, News Editor
October 16, 2019
Two student journalists were barred from attending a meeting between Burlington public works officials, UVM officials and Student Government representatives, Wednesday, Oct. 16. The Cynic along with a student journalist in the developing Community News Service were told by UVM and DPW officials that...
SGA weighs increasing their pay and who controls it
Zoe Stern, Cynic News Reporter
October 15, 2019
SGA is weighing the possibility of handing over the power of determining how much members get paid to a UVM employee. A proposed SGA resolution would allow their professional business manager, Blanka Caha, to increase student stipends, as opposed to retaining that power within SGA. The only stipend m...
