UVM has been grappling with the development of a new budget model for years, and now the community’s concerns about the model’s lack of prioritization of the liberal arts have come to a head.
UVM...
A shadow looms over an empty space on the wall of Howe Memorial Library where a portrait of former UVM President Guy Bailey once hung next to that of David W. Howe.
Nearly three years ago, Bailey’s...
Thousands gathered yesterday to protest a widely-perceived repeated administrative mishandling of sexual assault cases at UVM, following a week of rapidly mounting outrage that has overtaken the campus...
Ella Ruehsen, Assistant News Editor
• April 13, 2021
Over 3,000 people have voiced their lack of confidence in UVM President Suresh Garimella and his administration following a series of budget cuts and other perceived administrative failures.
On March...
Kate Vanni, Assistant Managing Editor
• April 5, 2021
As UVM professor Aaron Kindsvatter continues to post videos to his YouTube and make appearances on conservative radio and tv shows, his message — against what he perceives as anti-whiteness — has gone...
Kate Vanni, Assistant Managing Editor
• March 16, 2021
Following mounting calls for his resignation, a UVM professor that posted a video on the internet decrying supposed white discrimination on campus a week ago says, he’s not leaving.
The new video...
Kate Vanni, Assistant Managing Editor
• March 15, 2021
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 3:05 p.m. March 16.
UPDATE: March 16 In a third video Kindsvatter responded to the call for his resignation, “No, nope, not a chance, never gonna happen,...
Ella Ruehsen, Assistant News Editor
• February 23, 2021
Editor's note: This piece takes on a different form of journalism Cynic readers may not be accustomed to. Read the letter from the Editor-in-Chief here to learn more.
Since this past fall...
Student activism was common at UVM throughout the 1960s and ‘70s, resulting in the creation of some of the first African-American, Chicano/a and women’s studies departments in the U.S., English professor...
For 73 years, UVM fraternity members danced in blackface and satin tuxedos during the longest running winter carnival in the country.
At its peak in the 1960s, this event, known as the Kake Walk, was...
Over the next few years the face of UVM will see significant changes, including the removal of certain buildings on campus to make room for the addition of others. President Tom Sullivan recently addressed...
