Grooving with the Mountain Goats
Caroline Slack, Features Editor
April 29, 2018
Four men in suits ran on stage, looking like a band of dads hurrying from a business meeting to this gig. For a second I wondered what I was getting myself into. Then I felt the pulse of the bass and heard the hearty strums of a guitar. On Wednesday, April 18, the Mountain Goats grac...
New S.55 bill infringes on rights
April 20, 2018
Going back on a campaign promise made to his supporters, Gov. Phil Scott has signed an egregious piece of gun control legislation, S.55, into law. Contained in this law are mandatory background checks for private gun sales and a ban on the sale of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds for rifles ...
Eggplants: Cooking and Connecting with the Old World
Brigitte Riordan, Staff Writer
March 13, 2018
Food is culture. I am a first-generation Romanian-American, but I don’t know much about Romanian food. My father fled the country in the height of Ceausescu’s dictatorship, and once he moved to the United States, he was dedicated to being an American. He won’t speak Romanian around my brother...
Fresh Tracks
February 5, 2018
While winter slept stubbornly through the early days of December, my friend and I spent our Saturday scraping the icy slopes of Sugarbush. We arrived late in the morning and found the elements at the base of the mountain caught in a fierce war. The muddy earth and wilting meadows were battling...
A Lifetime of Donuts
Max McCurdy, Assistant Photo Editor
December 23, 2017
I vividly remember the first time I dreamed of visiting the Koffee Kup factory. It was winter of 2015, I was a sophomore and lived in Sichel Hall, a part of the distant Back Five on Trinity Campus. Sometime around midnight, I was on the lawn in front of Sichel with my roommate and his girlfriend,...
Slurred Words and Spatzle: Oktoberfest Vermont 2017
Bettina Cataldi, Writer
October 6, 2017
On a quest for locals to bear the last days of Burlington’s Indian summer, the solution was clear: bubbling brews, festive hats and games easy enough for those under the influence to win prizes. Oktoberfest Vermont held its third annual festival this past weekend from Sept. 21 to 23. Forty local,...
Written by:
Erika B. Lewy, Kim Henry, Joey Waldinger, Mariel Wamsley, Olivia Bowman, and Lindsay Freed
April 18, 2017
UVM hosts French-Canadian diplomatic conference
Brandon Arcari, Staff Writer
March 24, 2017
UVM hosted a conference on the connections between Vermont and its neighbor to the north. The March 20 French-Canadian connections conference, focused on the relations between Vermont and Quebec. It featured speakers including UVM President Tom Sullivan, Gov. Phil Scott and Rita de Santis, the Qu...
The Governor and UVM
Erika B. Lewy, Assistant News Editor
February 15, 2017
Gov. Phil Scott sat back in a wood chair in his large, fifth floor Montpelier office. He spoke quietly and slowly, pausing between thoughts, and leaned forward each time he told a story. He looked up as he described growing up in Barre, Vermont; he worked on construction jobs across the state, an...
UVM student dies after snowboarding incident
Olivia Bowman, News Editor
February 15, 2017
Senior Brett Cohen of Needham, Mass. died at the University of Vermont Medical Center Feb. 14. Annie Stevens, the vice provost for student affairs, announced Cohen’s death in a campus-wide e-mail Feb. 15. “We extend our deepest condolences to Brett’s family,” Stevens stated....
Behind Burlington’s Creative Social Network
February 7, 2017
It’s no secret that Burlington is a creative community — this much can be understood by simply looking at jackets and backpacks Burlingtonians embellish with the Grateful Dead logo. In an attempt to better understand Burlington’s artistic spirit, I reached out to a number of local artists and creato...
Phil Scott: the right choice for Governor to move our state forward
November 4, 2016
Disclaimer: Jason Maulucci is both the President of the UVM College Republicans and a staffer on Phil Scott's election campaign. During an election cycle in which the two major party nominees for president are as unpopular as they are, it is easy for voters to become disengaged and turned o...
