Top Cats apologize after flyer provokes backlash
Lindsay Freed, Senior Staff Writer
April 29, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
A student a cappella group has apologized after receiving backlash for their use of racially charged promotional material. UVM Top Cats had posted flyers for their May 5 senior show that depicted the faces of three senior members photoshopped on people wearing the traditional attire of a Mexican mariachi...
Women’s basketball coach resigns
Joey Waldinger, Assistant News Editor
April 26, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Sports
The UVM women's basketball coach has resigned following investigations into his verbal conduct with players. Chris Day stepped down April 26 after two years of coaching, according to a UVM Athletics press release today. The press release did not give a reason for his resignation. The Universit...
No damages awarded after trial
April 23, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
Following three hours of deliberations, a jury ruled that UVM did not mistreat a former information technology employee in a lawsuit she filed seeking financial damages. Cynthia Reuscher, a former Enterprise Technology Services employee, filed suit against the University in 2014, and was laid off...
Scammers target UVM students
Sawyer Loftus, Staff Writer
April 21, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
Junior Allison Schwartz was doing homework when she received a call from an 802 area code number. She didn’t recognize the number, but answered it anyway. “I went, ‘um who is this?’ And they were like, ‘What do you mean, ‘who is it?’ It’s the UVM Police— did you not see the number c...
Former UVM employee says she brought gun to student party
Sawyer Loftus and Brandon Arcari
April 19, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
A former UVM employee walked up to the home of UVM students hosting a party, gun behind her back, with the intent to ask them to quiet down. The former employee, Monica Devino, said in court Wednesday that she went to her neighbors’ house to break up the student party in September 2016. It was 1 a....
Case against UVM claims gender discrimination, hostile work environment
Sawyer Loftus, Staff Writer
April 19, 2018
Filed under Headliners, Uncategorized
A former UVM employee’s gender discrimination case went to trial Monday four years after she filed the lawsuit. Former University employee Cynthia Ruescher is suing UVM for gender discrimination, a hostile work environment and being fired after she first filed the lawsuit in 2014. Ruescher, w...
Uber driver crashes into Davis Center
Brandon Arcari, Assistant Breaking News Editor
April 16, 2018
Filed under Campus, Crime Log, Headliners, News
A car crashed into the Davis Center at 12:58 a.m. April 15. The driver of the vehicle, Uber driver Adeleke Fajobi, lost control after making a left turn onto Main street from University heights, damaging the shrubbery by the Davis Center Tunnel and knocking over the Nolin House sign. Fajobi then c...
UVM employee accused of watching porn at work
Sawyer Loftus and Joey Waldinger
April 12, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
A UVM employee accused of watching pornography at work will be used as evidence in a lawsuit against the University. The University’s lawyers tried to block the evidence from being used in former employee Cindy Ruescher’s lawsuit, according to court documents. The employee in question was Ruesch...
Former UVM employee suing for gender discrimination
April 9, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
A gender discrimination lawsuit from a former UVM employee will go to trial Monday, April 16, according to an April 9 press release from a local lawyer. Cindy Ruescher, who was fired from UVM in April 2015, is suing the University for discrimination based on gender and then retaliation against her fo...
Ethan Foley and Gillian Natanagara win SGA Presidential Election
Brandon Arcari, Assistant Breaking News Editor
March 28, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
Ethan Foley and Gillian Natanagara have been elected as the next president and vice president of SGA for the 2018-2019 academic year. Foley garnered 141 more votes than his opponent, Jamie Benson, and Natanagara received 216 more votes than her opponent Reginah Mako, in the highest turnout SGA election...
Headliner: Carti. Opener? Hardly.
Eleanor Webster, Staff Writer
March 28, 2018
Filed under Arts, Arts Regular, Headliners, Multimedia, Uncategorized, Videos
Rapper Playboi Carti will headline SpringFest, according to UPB’s announcement at Battle of the Bands March 24. UPB did not reveal to the winner of the event due to time constraints. “We were told we had to clear out of Nectar’s, and didn’t have time to make a clear decision,” said sophomore Tay...
Students protest gun rights rally
Joey Waldinger and Sawyer Loftus
March 19, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
Gun advocates had just started their rally in support of the right to bear arms when a group of protesters in the back stood up, turned their backs on the crowd and walked out. Turning Point USA and the Young Americans for Liberty, conservative youth groups with chapters on campus, held a joint rally M...
