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

What Obama should have said

September 14, 2009

Last week, President Barack Obama spoke to high school students in Arlington, Va., about the importance of working hard in school. Unfortunately, concerns about the speech's partisan content forced the...

Rhetoric is not going to reform education

September 14, 2009

He should have known — he really should have known.After only a few trials, Pavlov knew that his dogs would salivate at the sound of a bell, but Obama hasn't yet discovered that half the population...

E-cycling is re-polluting

September 14, 2009

Do you remember your first computer?You know, the one you used to play Number Munchers and Oregon Trail on? The one you downloaded so much illegal music and who-knows-what-else on to the hard drive that...

No party politics

September 7, 2009

About a week ago, a friend of mine asked me what it was like to be bi.Bipartisan, that is.All I could say is what I'll tell you: I'm not bipartisan. I'm not even non-partisan. I'm not anything! I am the...

Westboro, death pannels, birthers: Coping with crazy

September 7, 2009

So, the Westboro Baptist Church came to Burlington — which I guess is like Michael Vick attending the Westminster Dog Show.Justifiably, a good chunk of Burlington came out to show the church that...

Keeping freshmen car free

September 7, 2009

Freshmen may have been disappointed to find out that UVM's parking permit policy restricts any student who has been on campus for less than two semesters from obtaining a parking permit.While many in the...

Defining the typical college experience

August 31, 2009

I won't insult your intelligence by dropping the words "hooking up," "beer pong" or "Twitbook" like those white-haired pundits do every time they're trying to connect with our generation.Lately, the tone...

Overplaying race

August 31, 2009

President Barack Obama in fact may be a racist, just like you.Ok, ok, "racist" might be a little strong but here, let me explain.When Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard Professor, a self-proclaimed victim...

Seeing beyond color

August 31, 2009

When I was a kid, I had a friend who couldn't tell the difference between blue and green, red, orange, yellow or brown.is world was a simple, soft array of black and white hues. Literally.Now, many years...

The summer we almost missed

August 31, 2009

It's great to be back.Well, in reality I'm still at home, but sitting down to write my first Cynic piece has given me a bit of back-to-school excitement. While it is tempting to dive right into the new...

UVM naightlife irks residents

August 31, 2009

Like clockwork, students flood into Burlington at the start of the fall semester and, for two or three warm nights a week, the town of Burlington becomes one giant circus.At night, students can usually...

Tenured Griffin goes too far

July 22, 2009

It's easy to hate on racism. It is easy to preach rhetoric about American liberties.On the UVM campus it would be hard to find a single student that didn't believe in upholding the right to free speech....

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