Emma Dinsmore, Digital Media Editor
• April 17, 2025
I have been writing for the Cynic’s opinion section since I first got to college.
When I joined, I was a scared first-year who was looking to continue to build my passion for writing and find a space...
On September 21, 2000, the Vermont Cynic headlined a story titled "A new artist whose music is something you need to hear." The artist in question: Britney Spears.
Pop stars aren’t the only thing...
Sam Hansen, Contributing Columnist
• April 16, 2025
Last fall, to help cover UVM’s hefty tuition, I took a work-study job — rookie mistake.
The University of Vermont is known to be one of the most expensive public universities in the country,...
On Feb. 11, the executive order implementing President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative began a mass restructuring of the federal government’s workforce.
The...
Glue-on rhinestones from Michael’s and iron-on Catamount patches from the UVM Bookstore make the Ice Cats’ green dresses glimmer as they skate across the stark white Gutterson Fieldhouse rink.
Even...
Burlingtonians rallied against recent federal action at the “Hands Off!” protest outside City Hall on Saturday, April 5.
The protest was one of 1,400 happening simultaneously across the United...
The basement of the Waterman building used to house a four-lane bowling alley. Billings Library used to hold a dining hall. And there was, in fact, a Taco Bell near the tunnel under Main Street, albeit...
For the third time in the last year, a UVM administrator is leaving Burlington for Tucson, Ariz.
On Tuesday, the University of Arizona announced that UVM’s Interim President Patricia Prelock had been...
Maggie O’Shea, Culture Staff Writer
• April 14, 2025
The student-organized Catamount Film Festival aims to create something that will continue for years to come.
This festival was organized by two senior film and television studies majors, Catherine...
Sophomores Kennedy Connors and Merrick Modun were elected SGA President and Vice President, respectively, for the 2025-2026 academic year after votes were counted on Saturday, April 5.
Voting for...
For UVM’s varsity teams, the difference between seamless play and game-time disaster is an underground operation in the maze of campus’ athletic facilities.
The equipment and laundry rooms mean...
Protests have always been a struggle with a table heavily tipped in favor of people in power.
Given that I wish to even this field, and you probably do too, we should stop policing the methods that...
