It's eleven thirty on a Friday night and you're hanging out with friends at your place downtown. There's a knock at the door. You answer it and come face-to-face with the Burlington Police Department. It...

The state of Vermont has been hit with one of the worst natural disasters in our history.  Lives have been lost. Vermonters throughout the state have seen their homes, businesses and farms suffer...

In an email sent Friday afternoon to the university community, President A. John Bramley and Provost Jane Knodell outlined a plan to steer UVM through "challenging

Dead editor, I wanted to thank you for publishing "Jokes?" by Brian Kelly. Too often the topics of roofies and sexual assaults are tossed around for comedic relief, when in reality they are both terrifying...

As an obnoxious thirteen-year-old once sang, "It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday," but how far down are you willing to go? For most college students, the answer is usually one flight of stairs,...

Dear Editor, The school year has come again. Flocks of students can be seen walking, bike riding, Vespa-ing (?) and occasionally running to class. There are meal times at cafeterias, social school gatherings,...

Everyone remembers where they were on September 11, 2001.  I was 11 years old, and from my sixth-grade classroom 150 miles north of New York City I watched the World Trade Center burn. Then it was...

This upcoming week America faces a big challenge: commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The challenge lies in organizing the thoughts and memories of an entire country about...

As the Bloodhound Gang once said, "me and you baby ain't nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel."Unfortunately for the gang, and for everyone else, the Discovery Channel...

Dear editor, As an avid reader of The Vermont Cynic, I was disappointed with the article "Hitting the books with newfound enthusiasm" by Josephine Miller. While the article clearly had good intentions,...

Though Burlington was spared the worst of Hurricane Irene, much of southern Vermont was devastated by flooding. A dozen towns in the southern part of the state were left completely isolated — roads...

There are two things the GOP primary season is good for: watching candidates tramp through the Midwest awkwardly eating deep-fried local fare to boost their street cred —is that what they call it...