Hundreds gathered outside the Waterman building April 27 to participate in a nationwide walkout against campus sexual violence organized by Explain the Asterisk, an activism group originally founded at...
Halsey McLaen, Assistant News Editor
• February 23, 2022
UVM’s student tour guides, known as AdvoCats, stood in support of survivors at Friday’s protest but denounced its methods, according to a Feb. 21 Instagram post on @uvmadvocats.
AdvoCats stand...
As community members marched in black attire down Battery Street on their fifteenth consecutive day of protest last week, the mayor of Burlington spoke at an emergency meeting, unable to take action on...
Anna Morrill, Cynic News Reporter
• September 8, 2020
As students shuffled between classes on UVM’s Central Campus Sept. 3, a line of students dressed in black, carrying tombstones and a coffin began their somber march to the site of their “death.”
Late...
For 13 consecutive days, UVM students have blocked roads, marched down streets and disrupted downtown Burlington as part of a multi-day non-stop protest calling for the firing of three Burlington Police...
On the same day that some UVM students returned to campus in preparation for the fall semester, roughly 30 people stood outside UVM’s Waterman building to protest the school’s plans to reopen.
Organized...
As cities across the nation protest racial injustice, hundreds gathered in Burlington to speak out against the city’s Police Department and its treatment of black people.
The protesters gathered at...
In the middle of the night Oct. 24, young Burlingtonians hopped from bar to bar along Church Street while a lone violin song fought to be heard.
Violinist, composer and activist Daniel Bernard Roumain...
UVM, where are you? Here you are, posting a “Photo of the Week” of senior Jillian Scannell, SGA president, on your Instagram.
You write, “More than 500 community members gathered outside the Davis...
Over 100 students participated in a rally Feb. 26 in the Waterman lobby, the one year anniversary of the 2018 Waterman takeover.
NoNames for Justice, a student activist group, hosted a rally 2...
Hundreds of people gathered in Burlington to protest the ousting of Attorney General Jeff Sessions as concerns over the future of the Trump-Russia investigation grow.
At least 400 hundred protestors marched...
Nickie Morris, Assistant Sports Editor
• November 9, 2018
Protests for racial equality were present at UVM Nov. 4, but this time at Patrick Gymnasium.
Seven players on the St. Michael’s College men’s basketball team kneeled during the National Anthem...
