Stay up to date with the Cynic Roundup, giving you coverage on the stories you might have missed last week, from March 14 to March 18.
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Six UVM-affiliated...
Students should take diversity courses seriously.
As a queer woman, I have some personal experience with the information discussed in diversity requirements.
However, as a white person, signing...
Sawyer Loftus, News and Sports Editor
• January 31, 2020
The UVM board of trustees has approved a new rule that would further prioritize diversity among future board members, according to a Jan. 31 UVM press release.
In November 2019, the Vermont Cynic reported...
Faculty, staff and students filled UVM’s Grand Maple Ballroom, eager to listen to Tarana Burke, founder of the “Me Too” movement.
Burke delivered the keynote speech for Blackboard Jungle 12,...
Kim Henry, Senior Staff Writer
• February 23, 2019
The Oscars have been in hot water for years.
The awards show was surrounded by controversies like #OscarsSoWhite and their record low ratings last year, according to a March 2018 Vanity Fair article.
This...
Not all degrees are created equal.
In October 2018, CAS changed degree requirements for all majors, dropping required credit hours to 30 while increasing the maximum amount of credits students can take...
For the first time since 2011, UVM will be surveying students, faculty and staff about the social climate on campus.
The campus climate survey is a survey of all students, faculty and staff at the University...
Amongst the whirlwind of costume fittings and script readings, the UVM theatre department is re-evaluating itself.
With 84 majors and minors and 13 faculty and staff members, the department is a...
In the past year, Wes Richter has used “racist and threatening language,” according to an Oct. 5 Seven Days article, and J. T. Reichhelm stole the Black Lives Matter flag, according to a Sept. 29 VTDigger...
Addie Beach, Senior Staff Writer
• November 17, 2017
The weather outside may have been chilly, but last Wednesday the Sugar Maple Ballroom was filled with warm tea, comfy chairs and spirited conversation.
Authors Lisa Ko and Kaitlyn Greenidge visited...
The past two weeks on campus have been filled with protests, marches, rallies and emails about diversity and inclusion at UVM.
Student leaders of various diversity organizations on campus delivered...
This week, Vermont and the UVM community saw the first community-altering event of Trump’s federal immigration policy.
Friends and community members stand in jail cells, while their friends,...
