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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

Do the job to earn the wage

October 25, 2010

To earn their money, employees must fulfill their job requirements. Currently, the Student Government Association (SGA) does not monitor whether or not senators are earning their weekly stipends. After...

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...

Breast cancer awareness gets it right

October 18, 2010

Breast cancer is the third deadliest cancer in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. However, judging by all the fuss made about it in October, one may be inclined to think that...

Noise over noise, silence over abuse

October 18, 2010

Urine and pepper spray are not the only harmful substances that the Burlington Police Department has been hurling at the students of UVM recently. Abuse of power stands out as the most disturbing thing...

Holy leaking radiation, Batman!

October 18, 2010

Don't drink the water, there's tritium in the water. According to a Reuters article published on Oct. 11, Entergy Corp., the owners of Vermont Yankee, reported that a sample taken from a well near the...

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...

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...

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