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

Public servants for profit

October 18, 2010

A fundamental breakdown of our society is happening right before our eyes, threatening to crumble the very fabric of our being to nothing but lint in the bottom of the dryer, dried up and waiting to catch...

The Chinese paradox

October 18, 2010

A Chinese man named Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week, but few people in China know about it. In fact, many don't even know he exists. Liu Xiaobo has been a nonviolent democracy advocate...

Priority registration for athletes

October 11, 2010

  The notion that student-athletes receive full priority registration for classes may irk some people in concept, but in practice, there is not a good enough reason to stop such a policy.   It...

Point counter-point – Athlete priority registration

October 11, 2010

Against — Josh MacGregor Finally, the SGA has given me something to be thankful for. The weekly stream of e-mails I receive from Mr. Mensah are generally about as useful to me as dark room pornography:...

The epiphany that wasn’t

October 11, 2010

The recent suicide of Tyler Clementi, a first year at Rutgers University, has generated a media frenzy about young men who have recently committed suicide because of anti-gay harassment. But to call the...

Coke croaks

October 11, 2010

UVM has a serious Coke addiction. And you may too, whether you realize it or not. Your Minute Maid orange juice, your Vitamin Water and your Dasani bottle that draws heckles from nature-saving hippies...

We gave Guatemala syphilis

October 11, 2010

And gonorrhea. But mostly just syphilis. In Guatemala from 1946 until 1948, Dr. John Cutler conducted a study under the approval of the U.S. Department of Health authorities and the Guatemalan government...

Mr. Colbert goes to Washington

October 11, 2010

Television personality Stephen Colbert testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Border Security and International law last week. Seeing his five-minute speech, it made...

Mudsliding through midterms

October 5, 2010

Chaos reigned on Redstone Campus Thursday night as a flash flood turned to a campus-wide mudslide and brawl. The rain took full impact sometime around 10:00 PM. Within one hour, almost five hundred students...

Keeping it cool, keeping it quiet

October 4, 2010

Friday night in Burlington can be a raucously loud time. Instead of the occasional student walking from apartment to class, UVM students are hanging out by the dozens on sidewalks, in roads, on roofs...

Internet tapping, nothing to LOL about

October 4, 2010

  I will put up with a lot of things in the name of national security. I will have my crevices searched at the airport by an angry lady in blue. I will listen to any number of annoying announcements...

Healthcare reform, Obama not to be trusted

October 4, 2010

With all the debate over Barack Obama's recently passed health care bill, one thing that can be agreed upon is that the aforementioned president likes to mix in a little bit of everything with his health...

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