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...

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...

  Dear Editor, And so this is college. No matter what first years' expectations were and the collective fears they may have are, as UVM ends its first week and enters the next, something weighs heavily...

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...

UVM has been officially pigeonholed.   Well, it depends on how official you believe The Princeton Review's lists to be.  According to the rankings, we all party, smoke weed and wear Birkenstocks. Every...

Dear trustees, I am the tuition-paying parent of a new student at UVM and completely aghast at the decision by the Board of Trustees to throw money at a non-legal, moral issue. Grow up. Office romances...

Dear editor, It was a low-key night at the bar. New friends I didn't know that well. A couple of rounds. Casual conversation. "Don't worry, I already roofied your drinks," Bill joked innocently to the...

Hello to you, bittersweet summer's end. Goodbye summertime adventures.  The beginning of school is all about getting back into the swing of things: learning how to read a college text again, how...

It has been a rocky year for Dan Fogel. After announcing in March that he would resign as president in 2012, Fogel resigned abruptly in July when reports surfaced that his wife, Rachel Kahn-Fogel, was...

The Cynic staff is trying to get to the office but there's a group of wide-eyed high schoolers with UVM tote bags blocking the corridor outside WRUV.It's hard to hate on admitted students, for we were...