Sara Klimek, Senior Environmental Studies Major
• November 19, 2020
This year has certainly been like no other academic year for UVM students.
While we have seen great resilience in our ability to shift classes from in-person to online formats within a matter of...
October 5, 2020
Dear President Garimella, Leadership Team, Board of Trustees, President’s Commission, Shared Governance Advisory Councils, and University of Vermont Community,
As...
We, the undersigned, are recipients of the University of Vermont’s highest awards for teaching, scholarship, and community commitment.
Our group includes winners of the George V. Kidder Outstanding...
Letter to the Editor
Shuvan Shrestha ’21
The most vulnerable UVM student group right now are UVM students living on-campus, most of whom are international students, unable to go home, alone by...
Letter to the Editor
Sean Brewer '21
I was the only Black person in all of my classes last semester.
That simple sentence was to give you a basic understanding of the enforced isolation Black and Brown...
Letter to the Editor:
An opinion piece you published recently, “Why UVM needs a student union,” contains numerous errors and shows a fundamental lack of understanding about how the university operates.
The...
Last week, UVM saw an unprecedented event: the opening of an on-campus food pantry for students and UVM community members.
It was heralded by SGA President Jillian Scannell, a senior, several food activism...
In October 2019, posters went up across campus warning of exclusion on the Incentive Based Budgeting steering committee, pending academic cuts, pay inequality and a worrying New England Commission of Higher...
Letter to the Editor
Sophia Smith '21
Chair, SGA Committee on the Environment
Member, Socially Responsible Investment Advisory Council
Undergraduate Representative, Budget and financing...
Last summer, UVM student leaders were invited to attend Maccabee Task Force’s Perspectives Trip, a propaganda campaign designed to obscure the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Unfortunately,...
The climate movement has been gaining necessary momentum over the last few weeks. Climate science doesn’t lie, and people are increasingly acknowledging the urgency of climate change.
One of many institutions...
By Sara Klimek '21
In a recent Cynic article, UVM’s newest leader of sustainability, Richard Cate, said UVM was not planning to divest from fossil fuels under President Suresh Garimella’s administration.
Cate’s...
