Letter to the Editor: faculty of GSWS stand in solidarity with student...
We, the faculty of GSWS, stand in solidarity with the students demanding justice and accountability in the face of pervasive sexual violence and UVM’s institutional dereliction of its duties to support...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: What are you doing to help us, UVM?
TW: Rape, Depression I have been waiting to write this for too long. Yesterday, I couldn’t even make it to my bed before the tears came. So, I just laid on the floor instead, too angry and full of...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: End the stigma around menstruation
Image source: UVM Bored Menstruation stigma must stop. Menstruation is a shared experience among half the population, and yet it is still a widely stigmatized issue. But there are a few different...
View ArticlePerspectives: Professors need to meet students where they’re at
This year has certainly been like no other academic year for UVM students. While we have seen great resilience in our ability to shift classes from in-person to online formats within a matter of...
View ArticleLetter to the editor: Open letter from alumnx to UVM administration regarding...
October 5, 2020 Dear President Garimella, Leadership Team, Board of Trustees, President’s Commission, Shared Governance Advisory Councils, and University of Vermont Community, As two powerful womxn...
View ArticlePrestigious professors concerned about new cuts
We, the undersigned, are recipients of the University of Vermont’s highest awards for teaching, scholarship, and community commitment. Our group includes winners of the George V. Kidder Outstanding...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: What does it feel like to be away from home in the time...
Letter to the Editor Shuvan Shrestha ’21 The most vulnerable UVM student group right now are UVM students living on-campus, most of whom are international students, unable to go home, alone by...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Read the room
Letter to the Editor Sean Brewer ’21 I was the only Black person in all of my classes last semester. That simple sentence was to give you a basic understanding of the enforced isolation Black and Brown...
View ArticleLTE: Explaining UVM finance from Executive Director of News and Public Affairs
Letter to the Editor: An opinion piece you published recently, “Why UVM needs a student union,” contains numerous errors and shows a fundamental lack of understanding about how the university operates....
View ArticleFood pantry doesn’t solve bigger problem
Last week, UVM saw an unprecedented event: the opening of an on-campus food pantry for students and UVM community members. It was heralded by SGA President Jillian Scannell, a senior, several food...
View ArticleUVM, strive for transparency
In October 2019, posters went up across campus warning of exclusion on the Incentive Based Budgeting steering committee, pending academic cuts, pay inequality and a worrying New England Commission of...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: How UVM’s values align with divestment
Letter to the Editor IZZY PIPA Sophia Smith ’21 Chair, SGA Committee on the Environment Member, Socially Responsible Investment Advisory Council Undergraduate Representative, Budget and financing...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Understand bias behind “Perspectives”
Last summer, UVM student leaders were invited to attend Maccabee Task Force’s Perspectives Trip, a propaganda campaign designed to obscure the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor: Organize UVM to share divesting proposal
The climate movement has been gaining necessary momentum over the last few weeks. Climate science doesn’t lie, and people are increasingly acknowledging the urgency of climate change. One of many...
View ArticleCollective work drives divestment
By Sara Klimek ’21 In a recent Cynic article, UVM’s newest leader of sustainability, Richard Cate, said UVM was not planning to divest from fossil fuels under President Suresh Garimella’s...
View ArticleDivestment not our only option
By Richard Cate, vice president for finance and University Treasurer Global climate challenges are capturing headlines around the world, and rightly so, as environmental concerns are among the most...
View ArticleAlumni, push divestment
By Benjamin Silverman ’10 I am a 2010 alumnus from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts in economics. It was with great displeasure that I read in the Oct.1 Cynic article about how the UVM...
View ArticleProtect food assistance for VT
Back-to-school season has begun across America. Millions of children have returned to classrooms, ready to start a new school year. Now, thanks to President Donald Trump’s administration, hundreds of...
View ArticleAddiction is treatable despite common misconception
Dear Editors, I appreciate the Cynic’s coverage of issues related to student heath, including recent coverage of drug use. As a drug and alcohol counselor on campus, I’m all for getting us to talk...
View ArticleConserve Vermont’s nature, support new wildlife bill
Trapper, hunter and angler interests have long driven wildlife management decision-making through their influence on the Department of Fish and Wildlife. But after years of trying to convince the...
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