Call out gender bias issue
April 18, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorial
This week, a discrimination lawsuit four years in the making is finally going to trial. Cindy Ruescher, former UVM Enterprise Technology Services employee, accused the University of gender discrimination, creating a hostile workplace and firing her for complaining of discrimination issues. The cou...
Marriage is not the only option
April 13, 2018
Filed under Opinion
A few weeks back, Toys R Us announced that it was closing all of its stores. Rather than blame internet retailers for stealing business in their 2017 annual report, Toys R Us blamed millennials for not having enough kids. While I don’t think the dropping birth rates are the sole reason for Toys R Us clo...
YouTube gun policy is harmful
April 12, 2018
Filed under Opinion
YouTube enacted a new policy on content featuring firearms April 1. How much this policy will affect the firearms community is still to be seen. The policy included banning content related to direct sales and links to third party sellers, certain accessories related to fire rate and high-capacity mag...
SGA demands counselors
April 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorial
Last week, SGA highlighted a desperate need for a counselor dedicated to the serving students of color at UVM. First-year SGA senator Carter Yee brought up a resolution calling on Counseling and Psychiatry Services to hire a mental health specialist to work specifically with students of color. We agr...
When we prescribe too quickly
April 6, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Around 36.4 percent of college students suffer from depression, according to the American Psychological Association. Today’s most popular treatment method is antidepressant drugs according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The idea behind antidepressant drugs is that depression is caused by...
The intern generation
April 5, 2018
Filed under Opinion
“You think kids want to come with their parents and take fox-trot lessons? Trips to Europe, that’s what the kids want. Twenty-two countries in three days.” This line was uttered by hotel owner Max Kellerman in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing,” and his sentiment of teenagers wanting different ...
How to engage SGA voters
April 4, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorial
If we were to write the staff editorial expected of this paper, we would say that only 20 percent of the student body voted in the SGA presidential election, and isn’t that a shame. We would wag our fingers at our fellow undergrads, and point out that an SGA president elect received only 1,124 votes...
UVM, bring Arabic back
March 30, 2018
Filed under Opinion
UVM hardly has a diverse student demographic by any measure, and that is why teaching non-European languages is critical to widen students’ perspective. There is a great deficiency of languages being taught at the University and possibly a misunderstanding over the purpose of teaching foreign lan...
Shots fired at absurd proposal
March 29, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It’s 2019, President Trump has successfully supplied firearms to the 20 percent of “highly trained” school teachers to protect students against crazy, armed lunatics. One in every five K-12 teachers have been thoroughly trained to use a wide variety of firearms to deal with multiple types of ...
We can rename buildings
March 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion, Staff Editorial
Two weeks ago, the board of trustees created a committee to discuss renaming buildings on campus. For over a year, students have called for the renaming of Perkins Hall and Bailey/Howe library. The committee will use a list of criteria developed by Yale University to decide whether or not to rename...
Resisting rent control
March 23, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Due to the high cost of housing here in Burlington, many residents might find the idea of rent control attractive. But rent control is bad economic policy, and would hurt the people it is supposed to help. Rent control is a government-imposed price ceiling on rent. Landlords would not legally be a...
Be skeptical of ResLife changes
March 22, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Living/Learning Communities seem like the way to maximize a residence hall experience, especially for first-year students — that’s definitely what ResLife wants incoming first-year students to think. There are numerous LLCs spanning all of UVM’s campus this year, and ResLife is planning on main...
