Ask Cat: answers for your UVM questions
Ask Cat
May 10, 2019
Ask Cat: The Vermont Cynic's advice column. Q: Best study spot on campus? During my second semester at UVM, I got more acquainted with campus, and wandered into the newly restored Billings Library one afternoon before finals week. Billings Library initially scared me because it is so incredibly quie...
Why Trinity campus is perfect for first-year students
April 11, 2019
During the room selection process for rising sophomores, it became clear that most students didn’t want to live on Trinity campus. Yet, Trinity campus allows first-years to succeed. The Residential Life website’s Returner Room Selection page used to say students living in traditional housing could ch...
First-year programmed housing plan moves forward
Lily Young, Staff Writer
November 28, 2018
There will be 100 percent participation in learning communities by first-years by fall 2019. Next school year, all first-year housing options will be in learning communities. Residential Life Director Rafael Rodriguez said that this has been a major goal for Reslife for the past three years. Sophomor...
How ResLife is violating our human rights
Mills Sparksman
October 4, 2018
Warning: This piece is satire! This year, I was assigned to a triple on Redstone campus. It was all that was left by the time I had a chance to select my room, and I was immediately disappointed by the outcome. Having lived in Davis hall for approximately a month, I can now conclude that living in...
UVM students targeted in housing scam
Sawyer Loftus, Senior Staff Writer
July 20, 2018
UVM students and the greater Burlington area have been targeted in a string of recent rental scams. UVM Police posted an alert about the scam on their Facebook page Wednesday July 17 to UVM students and the community. Scammers have copied real property ads and replaced contact information in attempts...
Be skeptical of ResLife changes
Isabella Abraham
March 22, 2018
Living/Learning Communities seem like the way to maximize a residence hall experience, especially for first-year students — that’s definitely what ResLife wants incoming first-year students to think. There are numerous LLCs spanning all of UVM’s campus this year, and ResLife is planning on main...
Co-op educates photographers
Alec Collins, Staff Writer
February 22, 2018
We may be living in the digital age, but some members of the UVM community are throwing it back to analog days by learning and practicing black-and-white film photography. The Photo Co-op in the Living/Learning Center is a space for UVM students, staff and their families to develop their creative...
Mumps outbreak alarms students
Lindsay Freed, Senior Staff Writer
February 19, 2018
A mumps outbreak at UVM was confirmed by the Vermont Department of Health last week. One student tested positive for the mumps, and two other students are highly likely to be positive as well, University Communications Director Enrique Corredera stated in a Feb. 17 email. The Vermont Department of Health’s c...
New ResLife plan fails students
February 15, 2018
Complaints about rooming situations are common on college campuses, but students are especially disgruntled this spring. This year, ResLife required students to select their learning community preferences by November, while last year most students made their selections in March. One argument for thi...
WE residents circulate petition to re-hire RA
Emma Jarnagin, Staff Writer
November 16, 2017
Central Campus Residence Hall residents have started a petition to have their RA reinstated after her dismissal. Sophomore Carter Bradshaw has been relocated to Wellness Environment housing in Christie Wright Patterson after being fired Oct. 16. The petition stated she was terminated for “havin...
Programmed housing for the arts to move to Trinity campus
Ellyn Lapointe, Staff Writer
November 8, 2017
Residential Life will house a new Arts and Creativity community on Trinity campus beginning the fall semester of 2018. Arts Initiative staff and students have been working with ResLife to develop this new program, which will be centered around artistic expression and creativity, said Arts Init...
Converse will be converted to WE housing next year
Alex Verret, Staff Writer
November 7, 2017
Construction on Converse Hall has been underway since summer 2017. Starting next fall, Wellness Environment residents will live in the hall after repairs on the building have been completed. Converse will become additional housing for first-year Wellness Environment students with some spaces a...
