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...

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....

Dear students, parents and alumni,Welcome to The Vermont Cynic and to the  Burlington community. For many, this is your first encounter with The Cynic.For 126 years, The Cynic has provided the University...

I can't imagine a year that won't start in the fall or end in the spring. Nor can I imagine what I plan to do with myself a year from now when I will be staring graduation in the face.It makes me wonder...

Some may question why we chose to write a conservative Op-Ed piece on an overwhelmingly liberal campus.Despite some criticism, we have succeeded if only a handful of people have been able to open their...

Dear Editor,In response to your article "Animal rights group seeks to widen circle of compassion" on April 14, it was wonderful to see that members of Students for True Animal Rights (STAR) are promoting...

Dear Editor,The April 14 editorial is filled with errors and erroneous assumptions.The  that errors I would like to focus on concern the implementation of a new major in the College of Arts and Sciences,...

And in the eighth month, the media pleaded to God: "We have exhausted all the gossip on this election. We have scoured their personal histories. We are running out of stuff to talk about!"So God created...

Dear Editor, "Sex offender who posed as boy gets 70.5 years. Rare mega-mouth shark caught, then eaten. Newsweek: Is a global economic free-for-all looming?"Such are today's news headlines —...

Currently, the Board of Trustees is determining whether or not to pass a resolution to divest or withdraw their investments from hedge funds that invest in the manufacture of cluster bombs and depleted...

Since the beginning, I have been more skeptical of Students Stand Up and all of the students protesting University President Daniel Mark Fogel than anyone on campus. As of last Thursday, that has changed.I...

Burlington's decision to require that UVM house 70 percent of its students on campus is a blow to students, but the University can be faulted for expanding beyond the means of the community.UVM administrators...