Nurses vote to strike
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
June 13, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News, Vermont
University of Vermont Medical Center nurses have voted in favor of a potential two day strike. The approval was announced at a June 13 press conference lead by negotiator Julie MacMillan. MacMillan represents the 1,800 member union, the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, in t...
No deal between nurses and UVM Medical Center
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
June 3, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
After months of negotiations, lead negotiator Julie McMillan of the UVM Medical Center nurses’ union announced they had not yet reached a deal with UVM Medical Center. The announcement came at a June 1 community meeting outside the Medical Center that followed the last session of scheduled negotia...
UVM hit by cyber attack
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
May 26, 2018
Filed under Crime Log, Headliners, News
UVM was targeted by a cyber attack that could potentially lead to the malicious use of University NetIDs and passwords. Julia Russell, associate chief information officer of Enterprise Technology Services, alerted the University community in a May 23 email that the Information Security Office and E...
Board of Trustees meet for third time to close out the 2017-2018 academic year
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
May 25, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
The UVM Board of Trustees met May 18- 19 on the eve of the University’s 217th Commencement. The board is made up of 25 members, including President Thomas Sullivan, Provost David Rosowsky and Governor Phil Scott. This year they discussed two new renovation projects, a fundraising update and an inc...
UVM nurses rally to improve work conditions
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
May 22, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News, Vermont
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined with UVM Medical Center Nurses May 12 to work toward improving staffing and work conditions at UVM Medical Center. The Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals and UVM Medical Center Nurses marched from UVM Medical Center to the site of the new Medical ...
Friends and faculty mourn senior
Brandon Arcari, News Editor
May 19, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
Photo Courtesy// Facebook Senior Azaria Gaudreau unexpectedly died at home in Rochester, New Hampshire May 6. Annie Stevens, vice provost for student affairs, sent an email to students about Gaudreau's death May 8. Gaudreau, a psychological sciences and early childhood/special education dou...
Xanax on Campus
Ben Elfland, Senior Staff Writer
May 1, 2018
Filed under Campus, Headliners, News
Photo Illustration/ Alek Fleury and Genevieve Winn First-year Joe Smith, a pseudonym, popped four bars of Xanax at 1 a.m. one Friday. The next thing he knew he was lying in his Harris Millis dorm bed, 40 hours and nine bars later, at 5 p.m. that Saturday. He had attended two Friday morning engineering...
NoNames closes out semester and reflects
Brandon Arcari, Assistant Breaking News Editor
May 1, 2018
Filed under Headliners, News
NoNames for Justice is planning a sit-in at the board of trustees meeting May 18. The student-activist group held a teach-in April 22 to update students on the progress of their social justice demands. Following the Main Street blockade Feb. 22 and the Waterman takeover by students Feb. 26, adminis...
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...
