Expelled fraternity returns
Sawyer Loftus, Assistant Breaking News Editor
September 13, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
Sigma Phi Epsilon has been added to the list of recognized UVM fraternities, nearly seven years after it left campus in 2011 following a survey that asked, “if I could rape someone, who would it be?” One member of the fraternity added the question to his individual copy of the original ques...
Intervale offers fresh produce and strong community
Bridget Higdon, Culture Editor
September 5, 2018
Filed under Culture, Headliners
Sweet bell peppers, leafy green arugula, and papery yellow onion create a rainbow at the end of an otherwise dusty and gray Vermont road. All this produce was grown by local farmers at the Intervale Community Farm, a 58-acre farm in Burlington that includes seven sections of the Winooski River’...
New sexual misconduct rules leak
Lee Hughes, Assistant News Editor
September 5, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
9/12/18 3:18 P.M. This story was updated to clarify a reference to the Explain the Asterisk petition. On Wednesday, Aug. 29 the New York Times released a leaked, preliminary version of new sexual assault rules for college campuses by Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education. The rules come at ...
UVM Medical Center Nurses spend summer working for new contract
Sawyer Loftus, Assistant Breaking News Editor
August 28, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
Sawyer Loftus For the past four months, nurses at the University of Vermont Medical Center have been in a constant back-and-forth with hospital administrators over new contracts. The nurses’ union, the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Healthcare Professionals, represents around 1,800 nurses an...
Welcome Class of 2022
Sawyer Loftus, Assistant Breaking News Editor
August 28, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
The class of 2022 gathered to ring in a new academic year and begin their journey as Catamounts at convocation. First years gathered Aug. 26 in the Patrick Gym and heard speeches from UVM officials. The class of 2022 is made up of approximately 2,500 students hailing from 43 states and 22 ...
Nurses protest UVM Medical Center’s budget hearing
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
August 24, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
In the midst of ongoing contract negotiations between the UVM Medical Center and its nurses’ union, a hearing to confirm the medical center’s annual budget continued “business as usual” despite pleas from nurses. The union of just over 1,800 members called on the Green Mountain Care Board —...
Nurses to picket UVMMC budget hearing
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
August 21, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
The Green Mountain Care Board will continue to approve the University of Vermont Medical Center’s annual budget as the UVMMC Nurses stage protest. The nurse’s union called on the board last week to delay approving the budget until a new contract could be ratified between nurses and the medical ...
Proposal to remove Guy Bailey’s name from library open to public comment
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
August 20, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
The UVM board of trustees is looking for community comment on the proposed removal of former UVM president Guy Bailey’s name from the Bailey/Howe Library. Demands for a name change stem from a March 22 statement from student group NoNames for Justice, who felt the name was inappropriate given B...
Burlington City Council to decide fate of mural
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
August 14, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
The Burlington City Council has promised action following the approval of a report that called for the removal of a mural on Leahy Way by August 29, 2022. The report from the Mural Task Force recommends the "Everyone Loves a Parade" mural be removed and put up somewhere else inside Burlington among oth...
UVM President to resign
Lindsay Freed and Sawyer Loftus
August 6, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
University President Tom Sullivan will be stepping down after this year, according to an Aug. 6 email to the UVM community. This will be his seventh and final year as president after his 2012 selection by the board of trustees. Sullivan will be taking a research leave to write a book before joining the UVM fac...
Marijuana remains illegal on campus despite statewide legalization
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
July 18, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News, Vermont
Dennis, a pseudonym, describes himself as a “low-level” marijuana dealer on campus. A fan of marijuana, Dennis looks forward to legalization, but personally he doesn’t touch it after a bad experience with an edible, he said. At dinner, right before winter break, Dennis was hit with extreme anxiety...
UVM Medical Center nurses announce plans to strike
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
June 30, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
The UVM Medical Center nurses will issue a strike notice to the UVM Medical Center Monday morning. After a week of negotiations, the bargaining committee has voted to issue a strike notice, according to a June 30 Facebook post made by Stephanie Lusk, a member of the nurses’ bargain...
