We have a reputation.  We have a reputation to uphold and  a reputation to make. The students involved in VSTEP are living up to our reputation as proactive UVM students. VSTEP is working to...

As the swine flu sweeps through our campus and students fall victim to both the H1N1 and seasonal flu, it is important to know the facts surrounding vaccination and to help do your part to keep a University-wide...

What do you and the man with the "Will Work for Food" sign have in common?  Chances are you're both spending time online.  It appears the Internet has replaced the shopping cart as the "must...

There's war in the air again. Yes, it appears that Obama is the trigger-happiest president since … well, since Bush.Not only is he contemplating further escalating the war in Afghanistan, he's taken...

When I go to the airport, I have a reasonable idea of what will happen that day. 'll be forced to wait in line, pay extra for my suddenly too-heavy luggage and strip down to almost nothing.If I haven't...

Envision five years from now teachers telling students not to vaporize tobacco. However unlikely this scenario may seem now, vaporized cigarettes will become a well-known and warned-against product in...

When a billion-dollar beverage corporation issues cease and desist notices to a small Vermont brewery, one can't help but conjure up images of David and Goliath. As in the original myth, this story ends...

This Halloween, I imagine that the Burlington community and UVM students alike will flock to the streets in throngs. Sporting their ghoulish garb, there will be the expected mix of witches, werewolves...

It appears that Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov beat me to the punch and took away my last chance at having an original costume for Halloween. This holiday season, Luzhkov is going to be Mother Nature.He...

In the world of punditry there's a man by the name of Pat Buchanan.    He's been around a while. He's kind of like the informal representative of the always vocal Grumpy Old Men contingent.The...

No matter how you smoke it, the debate over medical marijuana isn't always an easy one to take in. Many see marijuana as the devil's candy — a drug that corrupts the youth, makes people lazy and...

The recent exposure of theft on campus should be met with shock and concern.According to UVM Marché Manager Bill Hackett, stolen food at the Marché and other dining facilities could amount...