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...
Two unsigned posters printed with the words “It’s Okay To Be White” were found along the driveway between Harris-Millis and the Gutterson field house Sunday afternoon.
Both sheets of paper were...
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...
First, let’s be clear: the action of the individual who stole the Black Lives Matter flag was hateful and racist.
In our editorial last week, we were not nearly clear enough about this.
In...
A retreat that caught international attention last year is being held again.
Last year, UVM was put on an international stage after sending students on a weekend retreat to examine their white identity....
The Cynic’s Enterprise section has spent the past three weeks exploring race at UVM, and has covered the Kake Walk, the current racial climate and the future of diversity at our University. Though this...
Forty-seven years ago, the University ended a tradition that involved fraternity members dancing in blackface and satin tuxedos. It was called the Kake Walk, inspired by mid-19th century minstrel shows...
The media has been buzzing about the recent protests at the University of Missouri. Minority students and faculty across the country said they often are left feeling marginalized, and as outsiders...
2014 has been the year of the collegiate white man. Campus rape? We are responsible. Police brutality? Yup, our fault.We’ve learned a lot about ourselves: how we should be assumed guilty of crimes that...
More than 25,000 police gathered for the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos in New York City on Dec. 27.
While the sheer number of officers that attended the funeral was newsworthy, the funeral made headlines...
Dear Editor,Satire sheds the cold, bright light of humor onto societal ills by ridiculing those with power. In theory, it is constructive social criticism, yet satirists often lose sight of their original...
This week, I had the pleasure of getting to see the new racial satire “Dear White People.”
Its primary focus is on the relationship between blacks and whites, first and foremost from the black perspective.
It...
