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for mental health consultations, Petrillo said.

“Mental health is something that is incredibly serious and something that you want

Students and community members filled the Ira Allen Chapel on Wednesday night to hear the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington speak.

Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland visited college campuses during March, which is Women’s History Month, encouraging students to become actively involved in political justice and intersectionality.

“Being at a college campus is probably the most important work we can do because we know that students are the next generation of leaders,” Mallory said. “To get to this group of people is how we move the social justice efforts we’re fighting for forward.”

Mallory is a longtime activist in the fight for social rights, but Bland worked full-time in fashion and was not engaged in activism until the organization of the Women’s March.

“They were a really good duo,” junior Annie McAneny said. “One of them was very clearly a super powerful person who was willing to teach someone who was previously so ignorant. I think it was a really important thing for a bunch of white kids at UVM to see that balance.”

Sharing personal stories with the audience, Mallory talked about her son’s father, a black man, who was killed and how she fears her son may have the same fate. Bland was pregnant when they started planning the march and continued working even when she went into labor, Bland said. She emphasized how she would never have to worry about her white daughter for the same reasons Mallory did for her son.

Using these stories to emphasize the importance of involvement, Mallory and Bland answered a question many eager young people have: how to get involved.

“I know a lot of people showed up for the Muslim community when the Muslim ban came out,” Bland said.

“That should be an everyday practice until all of us are free, because until all of us are receiving justice, none of us are.”

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MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic The Phi Gamma Delta “FIJI” house is pictured. FIJI has been suspended by the University for four years.

FIJI and AGR sanctioned by UVM John Riedel Senior Staff Writer The University has punished two UVM chapter fraternities.

After an investigation into incidents that occurred in the fall, the conduct office stated that Phi Gamma Delta, “FIJI,” and Alpha Gamma Rho, “AGR,” violated University policy, according to a March 30 Uni-

versity communications press release.

FIJI was suspended for four years after the conduct office stated they were found responsible for leading pledges in drinking games at a party in September 2016, the press release stated.

Suspended fraternities are not recognized by the University during the time of their suspension, but fraternities on

probation remain recognized, said Kim Monteaux-De Freitas, director of Fraternity and Sorority Life.

FIJI will be unable to hold meetings, host social gatherings or recruit and initiate new members, according to the release.

AGR was put on probation after the conduct office found them responsible for serving alcohol to minors at a ticketed

party October 2016, according to the press release.

AGR will be under social probation for two years.

During this time, they will be unable to serve any alcohol at official events they hosted.

This will overlap with a five-year general probation where the fraternity will be watched closely to ensure

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A new president marks beginning of era Lauren Schnepf Senior Staff Writer

Junior Chris Petrillo took off his a baseball cap and pushed up the sleeves of the longsleeve shirt bearing the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity logo as he sat down.

Petrillo leaned forward on the couch located in the back corner of the SGA office, placing his elbows on his knees, avoiding looking at the camera with apparent discomfort.

“If I had known there was going to be a photographer, I would have dressed up,” Petrillo said with a laugh.

Petrillo, a Williston native, wore shorts and sunglasses on a 30 degree day in March.

UVM is part of his family: both Petrillo’s father and sister attended the University, and his mother is a professor, he said.

Last week, Petrillo was

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elected president of the UVM student body.

“I distinctly remember being a kid in some of my mom’s classes and all her students would look at me funny because I was a five year old playing with legos in the corner,” he said with a smile.

Petrillo left Vermont after graduating high school for Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, he said.

Two years later, Petrillo transferred to UVM. Since then, he has been working as an EMT at the Williston Fire Department and said his time there has helped him understand the state of mind and feelings of people at their worst.

“You don’t call 911 on a bad day,” Petrillo said. “You call 911 on your worst day.”

The position had also taught him to be patient, to communicate effectively and

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What’s been happening on Capitol Hill?

Senate prepares for democratic filibuster of Gorsuch Where do the Democrats stand?

41 support filibuster Sherrod Brown (OH) Claire McCaskill (Mo.) Jon Tester (Mont.)

Tammy Baldwin (Wisc.)

Maria Cantwell (Wash.)

Thomas R. Carper (Del.) Bob Casey (Pa.) Dianne Feinstein (Calif.)

Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) Martin Heinrich (N.M.) Mazie K. Hirono (Hawaii) Tim Kaine (Va.) Amy Klobuchar (Minn.)

Christopher S. Murphy (Conn.)

Bill Nelson (Fla.) Bernie Sanders (Vt.) Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)

Elizabeth Warren (Mass.)

Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) Richard Blumenthal (Conn.)

Cory Booker (N.J.) Chris Coons (Del.) Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) Richard J. Durbin (Ill.) Al Franken (Minn.)

Kamala Harris (Calif.)

Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.)

Edward J. Markey (Mass.)

Jeff Merkley (Ore.) Patty Murray (Wash.)

Gary Peters (Mich.)

Jack Reed (R.I.) Brian Schatz (Hawaii) Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Tom Udall (N.M.) Chris Van Hollen (Md.) Mark Warner (Va.) Ron Wyden (Ore.) 3 undecided or unclear Benjamin L. Cardin (Md.) Angus King (Me.) Robert Menendez (N.J) 4 against filibuster Joe Donnelly (Ind.) Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) Michael Bennet (Colo.)

SGA Updates Craig Pelsor Staff Writer Adam Roof (I-Ward 8) ‘11 speaks to new initiative Roof presented a new initiative focused on sexual assault and domestic violence awareness in downtown Burlington.

Roof came to SGA to raise awareness of this initiative and seek the endorsement and support of SGA and the student body in general. See full story on page 6.

Bill allocating funds to sailing team Sailing requested over $15,000 for transportation, lodging and training for their national championship in

Charleston, South Carolina.

The women’s sailing team has qualified for nationals the past two years and is expected to do so again this year, as does the co-ed team.

SGA approved the allocation of $10,000 to the team.

Recognition of UVM historical club The SGA approved the recognition of the UVM Historical Club.

The club will promote the study and exploration of history at the University. This is the third revival of the club.

Current members requested recognition in order to secure a regular meeting place, more recruitment, advertising

opportunities and funding for speakers and trips.

SGA elections are ongoing Elections for president and vice president are in full swing.

A debate was held on Monday and polls opened as of the 28th. Results should be be released in the coming days. The election packets for the senatorial election are due April 3, and the election is April 11.

Sullivan assessed by board of trustee’s review Lucy Bisselle Staff Writer

Faculty Senate Updates Craig Pelsor Staff Writer New graduate certificate added A new certificate of graduate study in agroecology was created in response to student interest. Approximately 16 to 32 students have inquired about the major each year.

Ernesto Méndez will be the faculty director of the new program.

New minor added A new minor in education for cultural and linguistic diversity was created within the College of Education.

The minor comes in response to a growing number of students who have an elementary understanding of the English language, namely

international students.

The minor will help teach aspiring teachers how to address language barriers and navigate through an increasingly diverse world.

Increased general education requirements In 2014, President Sullivan addressed adding six new general education requirements; two diversity and a sustainability requirement have thus been added.

Quantitative reasoning is the fourth requirement to be added. Quantitative reasoning is the ability to interpret and use mathematical models symbolically, visually, numerically and verbally, according to the Mathematical Association of America, the definition used

BRANDON ARCARI/The Vermont Cynic The Board of Trustees meets Feb. 2. The board is currently in the process of reviewing President Tom Sullivan’s performance.

by President Sullivan.

Free speech talk to come to campus There will be a faculty panel discussion on the topic of free speech, titled “when is speech violent’ on Tuesday, April 11 in Williams 301.

Graduate success increased President Sullivan cited two factors for graduate student success: emotional support and learning through experience during college.

Few students actually received either or both of these support structures, he said.

President Tom Sullivan began his first review by the board of trustees. The review will be complete ending in October of 2017.

The purpose of the review is to assess Sullivan’s overall performance and identify areas to focus and act on in the future according to UVM’s presidential performance review policy.

It occurs every five years.

“The vast majority of students don’t directly interact with President Sullivan,” stated Gary Derr, vice president for Executive Operations, “but knowing that the leader of your institution, who is responsible for shaping your four years here, is being assessed and evaluated is very important.”

In the early 2000s, the board of trustees created the current review policy including an annual review for UVM employees, Derr said.

“Staff members go through annual reviews, but theses larger increments including five year reviews are for senior

administrators and deans,” said Tom Gustafson, vice president for University Relations and Administration.

The criteria for Sullivan’s evaluation is based on his own self-assessment and the board’s response, according to UVM’s Presidential Performance Review Policy.

“It’s very important for the president of our school to be reviewed, but I do wish I knew more about it,” sophomore Olivia Costa said.

UVM students should be more informed about the review, but Costa is glad it is happening, she said.

“I think that President Sullivan has done a lot of great things that he should be recognized for,” she said.

The review procedures will be confidential, the UVM’s presidential performance review policy stated.

“I think it’s important to point out that this is something required by the board,” Gustafson said. “It’s not a signal

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Current SGA President Jason Maulucci said he is confident in Petrillo’s abilities and has no concerns leaving the administration in his hands.

“He’s got all the right ideas, the right platform, the drive, the motivation and he essentially does have SGA experience because we’ve been meeting weekly since December,” Maulucci said.

Petrillo had never been an SGA senator. After deciding to run in January, he began working with Maulucci to prepare, he said.

SGA Sen. Zachariah Merson said he is not concerned that Petrillo is an outsider to SGA. “My biggest concern with the president is whether or not they can clearly formulate goals and are open to input from senators which he has shown he can do in the debate,” Merson said.

Some students who supported Chris’ opponent, Junior Niko Wu, are disappointed by the outcome of the election, including senior Matthew Segil.

“Knowing Niko’s character, I know he would have given his all to the presidency,” Segil

PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic Incoming SGA President junior Chris Petrillo and incoming Vice President junior Nicole Woodcock said. “Considering this, I am disappointed he lost.”

However, Segil said Wu’s support for both Chris and his running mate, junior Nicole Woodcock, following their victory speaks volumes about the new administration’s character.

Petrillo said he hopes to continue projects the previous administration have begun, such as bringing back reading days, supporting the movement to bring back varsity baseball and the SafeRide program.

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Junior Nicole Woodcock waved to one of her fellow senators before sitting down in an armchair tucked in a back corner of the SGA office. From her time on senate, she knows everyone in this office.

Woodcock will serve as SGA vice president for the upcoming year. She said her road to engagement didn’t just happen her overnight, and her experience getting here will propel her in her new role.

“I didn’t come here and just immediately blossom into this really engaged person,” she said. “I was really struggling to find a place, and I know that if I didn’t have the encouraging people in my life to keep me going that things would have been so much different.’”

Not all students know where to go or who to talk to when they first get to UVM, and that is an important resource she wants to provide in her role as SGA vice president, Woodcock said.

Woodcock grew up in Barre, Vermont. Attending UVM as a Vermonter, she is closer to home than a lot of her out-ofstate classmates, she said.

“I had this moment where I felt very lucky to feel safe where I am, and I know that a lot of

MAX MCCURDY/ The Vermont Cynic Junior Nicole Woodcock speaks about what she hopes to accomplish as the newly-elected SGA Vice President. people don’t have that here,” she said.

Woodcock has been serving on the Committee for Academic Affairs and is looking forward to being able to continue working with SGA senators in her role, she said.

Woodcock’s fellow senators, including first-year Jamie Benson, are excited to see her take on the role of SGA vice president.

“Having worked extensively with Nicole, I know that she has the drive and ability to serve the student body and guide the development of new initiatives for the Senate,” Benson said.

“Nicole is a consistently kind, genuine and reliable presence

both in and out of the office.”

Woodcock’s responsibilities will include ensuring senator’s health and wellbeing and creating the academic calendar group. Her role is to be the internal manager of senate.

Incoming president, Chris Petrillo, will work with more external matters, she said.

“Chris is more external, but I feel very passionate about a lot of the projects, so it’s going to be a real team effort,” Woodcock said.

Current SGA President Jason Maulucci is confident in Petrillo and Woodcock’s ability to lead the student body, he said.

“I think they’re going to be a fantastic team with the perfect balance of fresh perspectives and institutional knowledge,” Maulucci said.

The current Senate and executive board have set a very high standard for her time in office, Woodcock said.

“I know that if I want to do something, it’s going to need to follow through,” she said.

Woodcock’s goals for her time in office are to uphold the atmosphere of productivity, openness and communication that Maulucci and current Vice President Tyler Davis have set during their time here, while also reaching out more to other clubs and organizations.

SGA President’s role: • Leads the senate • Reports to the board of trustees • Represents students to administration during university-wide initiatives • Creates new leadership opportunities • Signs the club budget

UVM reacts to election

72% 27% of the voting student body voted for Petrillo

of the voting student body voted for Wu

Eight clubs endorsed Petrillo

According to an April 2 statement from elections chair David Brandt

As a little kid, Chris was in my son’s swim class at the Y. He was so darn cute; nice too!”

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And they’re big on academic freedom. They plan to improve communication with the registrar and have more transparency.”

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MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic The Alpha Gamma Rho house is pictured. AGR has been put on general probation for five years and social probation for two years.

Fraternity Continued from pg. 1 university policy is being followed.

AGR will also undergo membership review by the fraternity’s national headquarters prior to recruitment and will be required to host a national speaker for the Fraternity and Sorority Life community, according to the release.

When a student or organization is said to have violated University policies, an investigation is led by UVM police, Monteaux-De Freitas said.

The Cynic has requested documents pertaining to the investigation and plans to release these in a follow-up article.

SGA President Jason Maulucci and Vice President Tyler Davis did not agree with the punishments given to both fraternities and believe that the facts of the “The process, to me, looks like a kangaroo court in some instances, and the double standards between some organizations — like if compared to athletics — in terms of punishments, in terms of these types of issues, trouble me,” Maulucci said.

Maulucci said that hazing should not be tolerated but there is a huge difference between forcing people to do dangerous things at a no “But there’s a big difference between forcing people to do things that could potentially threaten your well being and just simply having an event, and this is with regard to FIJI, a non organization sponsored event where some kids are having some beers,” Maulucci said. “To me, this seems at its surface as part of an agenda to try and get rid of these organizations from campus.”

Maulucci said he and Davis are not aware of every detail in both cases, but feel confident in their understandings.

The process the fraternities experienced is not something a club or athletic team would see, Davis said.

“All of this bothers me from

a fairness standpoint and it just seems remarkably unfair, something you’d never see an SGA recognized club going through or a varsity Division I program,” he said. Maulucci was referring to a hazing scandal that affected the men’s hockey team in Sept. 2016.

Last semester, four players from men’s hockey were suspended for five games after an investigation by UVM police, according to a UVM police press release from October 2016.

The first-year players were forced to eat tequila-soaked bread, funnel beer, play beer pong and take shots while in their boxers, according to the press release.

There were no official reports of hazing in September and October of 2016 listed in the UVM police crime log, despite the occurrence of these incidents.

No one was forced to drink or arrested for hazing in either fraternity, Maulucci said.

“The double standard doesn’t even pass the straight face test,” he said “With just that anecdotal information... the double standard makes whatever process FIJI just went through look like a kangaroo court.”

These punishments are “death sentences” for AGR and FIJI, Maulucci and Davis said.

“There’s not much more to say,” said senior Dan Truso, noble ruler of AGR. Truso declined to comment further.

Doug Sterkel, the regional vice president of AGR for the Northeast, said he was aware of the investigation.

“We are aware that Grant Bargfrede, AGR’s national director of chapter advancement, has engaged with the chapter recently,” Sterkel said.

“Grant has reported that the chapter has responded in a very positive way.”

Members of FIJI did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.

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EILEEN O’CONNOR/The Vermont Cynic A house in the North End is pictured. City council has been pushing for increased affordable housing.

City council discusses housing and UVM

John Riedel Senior Staff Writer Chris Dillon Staff Writer

As city council elections have come to an end, the new council is looking toward tackling housing and development during its first term.

Housing has been an issue in Burlington for decades, and the new city council is emphasizing the need to develop new housing for both students and families.

“Housing was a problem in the ‘80s when I got here; it’s a bigger problem now,” said Joan Shannon, South District city councilor.

Housing quality, as well as the relationship between students and the community, have been issues over the decades, Shannon said.

“So many of us were UVM

students,” Shannon said.

As students they experienced the same housing issues current students are facing today, she said.

Senior Nicole Reber said she was concerned over the process of finding housing.

“They tore down the shoeboxes on Central campus, which created a giant need for off-campus housing,” Reber said.

“It was pretty cutthroat trying to find housing,” Reber said.

In November 2016, Burlington voted in favor of redeveloping the downtown area, which includes rezoning and adding new funding for projects, according to the ballot results.

The new developments will accommodate both living spaces and offices for the UVM Medical Center, Shannon said.

“It will be interesting to see if [building the downtown project] opens up some options for students,” she said, “so you don’t have to pay top dollar for really crappy accommodations.”

“It’s an easy argument that some city politicians make, that all UVM students should live on campus,” SGA President Jason Maulucci said, “but that’s not how it works here, and it’s not how students want it to work.”

Maulucci said More housing should come from the city, Maulucci said.

“Ten years ago, [the University] built the UHeights facilities,” he said. “Right now, we’re building the new residence hall that’s going to add 700 beds.”

Maulucci supports recent projects by the city, he said.

“The new downtown devel-

opment will increase housing substantially, but there’s still so much work to be done providing more affordable housing for students and working families,” Maulucci said.

The city council has worked with SGA in the past to tackle student issues in the community, he said.

“Having a lot of young people in the community brings a vibrancy to the community,” Shannon said. “Students are an asset to the community.

We’d just be a bunch of old folks without you.”

The relationship between the city and the University is mutually beneficial and dependent, Maulucci said.

Communication between residents and students is a priority for the community, said Jane Knodell, south district councilor.

Knodell was re-elected for

city council’s south district and is a professor of economics at UVM. “Let’s make it better for everyone,” she said. “If we can continue to build more housing on campus, it’s good for students and the University.”

During the city council election, student votes were particularly important due to the low student voter turnout, Knodell said.

“It was a very rigorous and active campaign, and I was humbled to be elected again,” she said. “What I heard at the doors is people want high wages and low rents.”

She looks forward to working with other city councilors to address the issue of housing during her next term, Knodell said.

City councilor seeks SGA support in pilot program Erika B. Lewy Assistant News Editor When UVM graduate Adam Roof ‘11 (I-Ward 8), was a student, he knew that he wanted to do something to address sexual assault in Burlington, he said. Today, as city councillor, he’s doing just that.

In an SGA meeting on March 28, Roof asked for UVM’s participation in a bystander intervention program at Burlington’s bars and restaurants.

Roof asked for student input and support in implementing the 18-month pilot program, which would train bartenders and servers around Burlington on how to intervene when they sense danger of sexual assault, Roof said.

At the meeting, Roof asked for SGA’s help in spreading awareness to students about

Photo courtesy of Facebook Adam Roof ‘11 (I-Ward 8) is spearheading the bystander intervention program. the bystander intervention program, said Heather Scott, chair of the SGA committee on legislative and community affairs.

Scott said that the awareness will come in the form

of a petition to demonstrate student support and a unanimous SGA resolution of support prior to an April 17 city board of finance meeting where Roof will formally request $10,000 for the initiative.

“Hopefully the city will see how much this issue matters to students,” Scott said. “We make up such a large percentage of residents in Burlington who are going out to bars and restaurants.”

Sophomore Abby Staley said the initiative sounded like a good first step, and something that would work down at the bars around Church Street.

The venues that Roof had already contacted-- including Rasputin’s, What Ales You, Akes and Reuben James’-- have already expressed interest in sending their employees to get trained, Scott said.

Roof said the funding he

will request will go towards developing training and paying staff members for the sessions, which would meet six times over the course of a year and half.

While a UVM student, Roof was a student representative on the board of trustees. That’s where he first started thinking about the University’s role in preventing sexual assaults, he said.

Then, while working with National Center for Campus Security in Burlington, he was introduced to an organization that does bystander intervention for nightlife venues, he said.

“I wanted to bring this city-wide,” he said, “especially because there are a number of colleges in the area. While sexual assault doesn’t discriminate, it disproportionately affects females ages 18 to

24-- the so-called college aged population.”

At the end of the 18-month pilot period, the city will evaluate the program and determine whether it will be picked up permanently, Roof said.

Junior Reginah Mako, an SGA senator on the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, said she was excited to see where the pilot program goes.

“While it doesn’t get at the root of eliminating sexual assault on college campuses-and I don’t think there is one root-- it could decrease sexual assault,” Mako said. “It addresses people who don’t know when or how to respond.”

The initiative could be implemented as early as May, Mako said.

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UVM students learn beside local inmates Brandon Arcari Senior Staff Writer Local prison inmates are studying alongside UVM students as part of a new program.

UVM has become the first public university to institute a Liberal Arts in Prisons Program, implementing teaching techniques where students are taught alongside prison inmates.

This semester, a class taught and designed by professor Kathryn Fox has been implemented as a part of the Liberal Arts in Prisons Program where students are brought to the women’s prison to take the class, said William Falls, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, The program, part of the Consortium of the Liberal Arts in Prison which started at Bard College, blends 11 students from UVM with 11 inmates at the South Burlington Regional Correctional Facility in a pilot course on the topic of justice, set at the 200 level mostly for sociology majors, said Fox. Fox contacted Dean Falls due to her restorative justice experience and close partnership with the Vermont Department of Corrections, Falls said.

Fox’s research in correction-

al systems, especially in terms of reintegration, has led her in the past to bring students to the Department of Corrections for service-learning opportunities, Fox said.

There has been a decrease in attention and funding toward rehabilitative programs and a shift toward warehousing since the 1980s; Fox questions why good results are still expected, she said.

Fox suggested the class to Dean Falls last September, and he gave her the green light because he thought it would be a great idea to offer credit-bearing courses in prison, Falls said.

“I thought the class would be something that would be wonderful for our students to be involved in,” he said. “It would be a wonderful featherin-the-cap of the College of Arts and Sciences.”

Student safety is not a major issue of concern, as both the students and faculty received training prior to entering the prison, he said.

The program is not intended to be degree-granting, and will not be supported with UVM funds: It will offer credits that will be transferable after the inmates are released, and will be funded through federal

MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic The Chittenden Correctional Facility is pictured. The facility has started a new program where inmates study alongside UVM students. grants and private philanthropy, Falls said.

“I absolutely love this classroom experience. As soon as class starts, I no longer feel as if I am taking a class inside of a prison and I completely forget that the women are incarcerated individuals.” said senior Gaelyn Sullivan, a student in the class. “In our class, we are all students.”

The class uses the term “inside students” for the inmates and “outside students” for the others to avoid using harsh labels or creating a divide between students, Sullivan said.

While this semester the program is a pilot course to experiment with how the course is run, the hope is that courses offered next spring will grant credit, said Falls.

Similar programs at Bard and Wesleyan University in Connecticut have succeeded in lowering the rate at which people return to prison from 60 percent to around 4 percent said Fox, and the cost-effectiveness of similar programs is estimated around $2 in prison system savings for every dollar spent on education, according to their website.

Two environmental biology and geology minors cut Craig Pelsor Staff Writer Two environmental science minors have been cut following an uncontested Faculty Senate resolution according to meeting minutes from a Feb. 27 Faculty Senate meeting.

After a complete lack of enrollment, the biology and geology minors have been terminated.

“The faculty chose to eliminate these two minors because

they are currently duplicated in other programs,” said Jennifer Pontius, research assistant professor for the Rubenstein School.

The minors were also eliminated due to minimal student interest and a lack of ENSC courses available to fulfill them, according to the minutes.

The resolution was written by directors of the environmental sciences program, and

it was unanimously approved by the curricular affairs committee. 96 percent approved the resolution, while four percent abstained, according to the minutes.

The environmental biology minor has had two inquiries in the last five years, according to a memo from the Curricular Affairs Committee.

The minors were added at a time when the environmental sciences program was

integrated into the College of Arts and Sciences, the memo stated.

Now, there is an environmental science program that encompasses both these areas in the college of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

These minors had significant overlap with the current biology and geology minors, research assistant professor

Pontius said.

“The termination can be initiated with a simple memo from the program directors to the Faculty Senate Curricular Affairs Committee presenting the request and the rationale for same,” Faculty Senate President Cathy Paris said.

When a minor is terminated, students enrolled in it are given the chance to finish it, Paris said. They do not affect faculty positions, she said.

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Joey Waldinger Staff Writer A crowd of scholars, faculty and students sat in the Silver Maple ballroom to discuss race.

UVM held its 10th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium Mar. 30 and 31. The symposium was hosted by Office of the Vice President for Human Resources, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, according to the UVM website.

The workshops and discussions are designed to allow the UVM community to gain knowledge and develop skills to better understand diversity, according to the website.

One of the panelist discussions entitled “Free Speech and Hate Speech: Can They Coexist,” featured panelists who discussed universities’ role in upholding free speech.

“As a public institution, UVM cannot prohibit the right to free speech, no matter how noxious, odious, or hurtful,” said University President Tom Sullivan, who was one of the panelists.

There are only four instances where UVM, or any public institution, could censor speech: if the speaker was involved in criminal activity, presented a clear and present danger if the speaker said something defamatory or if they said something obscene, Sullivan said.

Any speech, unless it falls into these four categories must be protected; it is the University’s responsibility to ensure an inclusive dialogue, he said.

Panelists discussed the Charles Murray incident at Middlebury College and the riots at UCLA over Milo Yiannoupolous, former senior editor at Breitbart News.

MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic UVM students, faculty and Burlington community members gather for the 10th annual Blackboard Jungle Symposium March 31 in the Silver Maple Ballroom.

Murray is a social scientist who, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, believes in the genetic inferiority of Latinos, black folks, women and the poor. Murray’s recent visit to Middlebury College resulted in a student protest where one professor was injured, according to a March 3 New York Times article.

When colleges invite speakers who promote intolerance it is difficult for a campus to have even discourse, said Traci Griffith, a panelist and department chair of Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts at Saint Michael’s College.

The types of speech Yiannopolous and Murray engage in creates an atmosphere of fear

and harassment, which inflicts psychological violence on the groups of people who their speech targets, Griffith said.

By inviting such speakers, a university might be promoting the educational process for some students while inhibiting learning for others, she said.

Emma Redden, a student at Goddard College who attended the symposium, empathized with Griffith`s worry.

“The idea that we want to promote people who want to commit violence and have the power to commit violence,” Redden said.”I completely disagree with it.”

During her presentation as a panelist, Annie Stevens, vice provost for student affairs, re-

called several recent incidents of xenophobia at UVM. UVM is not immune to hateful speech, she said.

Though these instances were ugly, they often led to moments that helped students distinguish between expressing opinion and expressing hate, Stevens said.

“We do that on college campuses by teaching students how to think critically,” she said.

“There are a lot of different groups that make people feel comfortable enough to voice their opinions,” sophomore Morgan Ferland said in response to Stevens.

Faculty must be educated on issues of diversity in order to then facillitate discussion with

students, said Sherwood Smith, director of UVM`s Center for Cultural Pluralism.

“I don’t know if dialogue about race and social justice is balanced anywhere in the U.S....I think UVM is actively working to engage those issues,” he said.

Blackboard Jungle helps the faculty increase engagement with the students by giving them a deeper understanding of key issues, Smith said.

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that Sullivan isn’t doing well as president it is routine.”

The overall review process should be completed within approximately six months, concluding in October, Derr said.

The committee will look back on the president’s Strategic Action Plan of 2012 and measure the success of his goals for the University, he said.

“I think there is a pretty impressive track record,” Derr said. “The review is responding to the question of if we did the things we said we could, and the answer, in most cases, is yes.”

Some of Sullivan’s achievements include the creation of an Academic Student Success Center, work on Virtue Field, the construction of the STEM building, the new residence hall and a commitment to a tobacco-free campus, he said.

“I know he puts great value in reviews and setting goals for other people and for himself,” Gustafson said. “He keeps meticulous records of everything since he’s been here.”

Students invest a lot of time and money in UVM and should know that their institution is being cared for through this review process, Derr said.

President Tom Sullivan thinks it necessary to value free speech on college campuses, according to a new book he is writing, which has yet to be named.

Sullivan’s book will outline the challenges of interpreting the First Amendment and emphasize the necessity for college campuses to cultivate a civically-informed student body, Sullivan said.

“President Sullivan’s timing is perfect, given our ‘Age of No Truths,’ ‘alternative facts’ and moral relativism,” Community Development and Applied Economics professor Rob Williams said.

His book will focus on the importance of free speech including how social media has affected the expression of young people entering the political marketplace.

“Just because social media issused for play and pastime does not mean students should not be held accountable for what students put on it,” first-year Harmony Edosomwan said.

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“President Sullivan’s timing is perfect, given our ‘age of no truths,’ ‘alternative facts’ and moral relativism.”

Rob Williams ENVS Professor University of California Berkeley regarding Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News and the reaction to Charles Murray’s speech at Middlebury College are “liberal intolerance” and are directly related to the freedom of speech.

“Murray’s ideas are distasteful to many, but as an invited guest of the college, he deserves to be treated with respect,” he said. “Even as his

ideas, should be thoughtfully and thoroughly challenged by those who disagree with them.”

It is the college campus setting where the exchange of ideas and expression of personal viewpoints — whether one agrees with them or not — should be protected, Sullivan said.

“If we can’t have a thoughtful exchange of opinions in the

educational and scholarly setting of universities, it is hard to see that operate in society at large. Society looks to us for solutions and new ideas, and it takes a robust environment to achieve that,” he said.

Not only does the University have a responsibility to its students to promote free speech outside the classroom, but also uphold it within the curriculum, English professor Jamie Williamson said.

“Open inquiry and the ability to pursue the study of different subjects without teaching through a scope of rigidly imposed ideologies is invaluable,” Williamson said.

The book will include a chapter on the history of the law’s development, a chapter on the philosophy of the law which supports that legal rule, and the philosophy behind the First Amendment, President Sullivan said.

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Police presence continues in Coolidge Hall Erika B. Lewy Assistant News Writer Joey Waldinger Staff Writer

MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic A hallway in Coolidge is pictured. Students are responding to the increased police presence in the dorm.

In response to increased drug and alcohol related crimes in Coolidge Hall this semester, Residential Life called in police officers to do walks.

Students have said officers are doing resident advisers’ jobs, and now students are getting in more legal trouble because of it.

ResLife responded to reports of increased vandalism, drug abuse and other crimes occurring in Coolidge in February. ResLife directed UVM police services to begin community walks in Coolidge.

“It’s ridiculous,” said sophomore Olivia Weale, a Coolidge resident. “In other dorms, everyone is doing the same thing.

We just happen to be getting caught because the police are here.”

Police started showing up in Coolidge after the RA on sophomore Gillian Greene’s floor was fired, Greene said.

“I know they feel outnumbered by the students,” she said.

Had the hallways been patrolled by RAs instead of by police officers, fewer students would get in trouble, Greene said.

Officers on community walks check in with RAs working at the front desk and might do a walk up and down any problem floors, officer Melanie Waldbrise said.

The increased police presence means that Coolidge residents are far more likely to get

in legal trouble than students who drink and smoke in other dorms, sophomore Lauren Bird said.

Weale recalled an evening when she’d left her neighbor’s room at 10 p.m. on a Monday night to shower, she said.

“I’m leaving his room, and as I open the door to walk out, there’s three cops there,” Weale said. “They said, ‘Oh, we see your beer bottles. Stay there.’

And they open the whole door.”

Weale had to go to a hearing for the beer bottles in her friend’s dorm, she said.

Officer Jim Phelps said police only started doing rounds in Coolidge after an unusually high number of different drug, alcohol and vandalism related incidents in the hall.

ResLife and police services look through the call log to see if there are any patterns of complaints or areas with an elevated levels of problems, Phelps said.

Police officers only go into residential halls when there is a safety threat or their presence has been requested by residential directors or assistant residential directors, Waldbrise said.

“It’s problem-oriented policing,” Phelps said. “If someone is regularly pulling fire alarms or spraying a fire extinguisher at 3 a.m., that starts to drain our resources. We can say ‘Hey, here’s a problem area,’ and adjust our resources to address the ongoing issue.”

Since police began rounds in February, there has been an uptick in documentations in UVM police services’ fire and crime log.

Back in November, there was one recorded incident — an alcohol offense. In December, police reported one drug-related incident that they were unable to locate.

In January, there were 12 recorded incidents, including three non-substantiated drug-related reports, four drug and alcohol related offenses, a welfare check, a citizen assist, a 911 hang up, and one case of property damage.

In February– the month that Res Life called police in to do walks in Coolidge– police reported 11 incidents: three vandalism reports, 6 drug and alcohol offenses, a case of fire alarm/vandalism and a medical assist due to intoxication outside of Coolidge.

We were bothered that no one in Res Life informed us that the police would be doing walks, and that no one from the University explained to us why the officers were doing rounds residents Greene and Weale said .

I wished that police had the opportunity to get to know students outside of their roles of law enforcement, but drops in staffing made it difficult for the department to do community outreach Officer Phelps said.

“I don’t want to get anyone in trouble,” Phelps said. “I just want to make sure all these kids are safe.”

Phelps had advice for students who wanted to avoid trouble.

“Take care of each other,” he said. “Look out for each other. Take a vested interest in the safety of yourself and your community.”

Migrant justice activists return home after immigration hearing Chloe Chaobal Staff Writer Protesters gathered outside the federal courthouse in Boston March 28 in support of recently arrested Vermont immigration activists.

Enrique Balcazar and Zully Palacios, who are married, were arrested March 17 in Burlington. Palacios was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overextending her visa.

People are being targeted

by ICE due to their involvement with activism “unquestionably,” said Will Lambek, communications correspondent for Migrant Justice.

“It’s seems like it only impacts the people who are from the outside and it’s not impacting us,” first-year Maria Patari said. “But in a weird way, we’re all immigrants, so it’s something we should care about.”

The two activists had been targets of ICE since September, said Mat Cameron, Balcazar and Palacios’ lawyer.

Their arrest marks the third arrest of a Migrant Justice activist in March.

After being detained in New Hampshire, Palacios and Balcazar returned home to Burlington, according to Vermont Public Radio. They spoke at a news conference

Photo courtesy of Migrant Justice Enrique Balcazar (left) and Zully Palacios (right) are pictured.

March 28.

“ICE targeting people because of their political speech affects us all,” Lambek said.

Since being arrested and detained, Balcazar and Palacios have been recommitted to their activism, Cameron said.

“People have been more emboldened than ever before to speak out,” Lambek said.

Balcazar came to Vermont at the age of 17 and worked on dairy farms, Lambek said.

Soon, Balcazar became a strong advocate for migrant rights in the state. He lead campaigns such as the Milk with Dignity program, which calls on on food corporations to take responsibility for farmworker rights abuses, Lambek said.

“He has a very impressive resume for a 24-year-old organizer,” Cameron said.

In addition, Balcazar has helped to write policy prevent-

ing police from profiling immigrants or collaborate with immigration enforcement, Cameron said.

He is currently serving on the attorney general’s immigration task force in the state, Cameron said.

Lambek said the state should pass a recent bill proposed in Feb. that would create a board to help implement racial justice policies across Vermont. This would ensure

impartial policing practices, he said.

“I think social justice is a big part of UVM, so I think it’s important for UVM students to care, or at least learn about it,” first-year Elise Albertini said.

First-year Anna Thomas said she would advise students to keep up to date with this situation.

“Stay informed,” she said.

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What have students been wearing at UVM? Campus Clothes

Healy Fallon ach morning of our often hectic, crammed lives, we always wake up and contemplate the question of what we are going to wear.

As snows melts away and the temperature rises, students across campus are ready to take self-expression to a fresh new level, with jackets, backpacks, shoes, sweaters and all types of accessories.

Many students agree the campus atmosphere allows people to feel comfortable and confident with what they wear in public, and maybe willing to take a few more risks than normal.

“There’s definitely a safe space here,” Camp said. “I actually see people who are male-presenting but have painted nails, wear skirts and behave in a very feminine way, and no one really gives a second look, which is nice.

There’s definitely a movement for inclusion in that sense on campus.”

But behind the countless Patagonia jackets, laptop stickers, Supreme sweatshirts and dangling earrings, UVM style is not as easy to define as it seems.

“Besides winter coats, everyone wears whatever they want,” first-year Erick Eisenbiegler said. “I once saw a dude riding a skateboard in a onesie.”

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“I got into this rut of wearing sweatshirts and leggings everyday because of college and how stressful it is, but ever since it got warmer out I’ve been able to rediscover my personal style,” first-year Maina Carey said.

Although it’s difficult to characterize the typical outfit of the everyday student, patterns emerge in the form of brand names and accessories.

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“A North Face Jacket and Bean Boots [in the winter] are probably the most popular pieces of clothing,” first-year Libby Camp said.

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“And flannels and blue jeans,” first-year Noah Schneidman, said. Schneidman said the only two colors in his wardrobe are black and blue.

“Also Birkenstocks ,” Camp said “I see a lot of people wearing them here.”

Healy Fallon is a first-year English major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2016.

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Kim Henry Staff Writer After over a year of recruitment, songwriting and promotion, a UVM band is ready to take the next step.

Jeddy will release its first studio album, “I’ll Do It Anyway,” April 8.

Jeddy has been slowly building steam since junior Drew Steinberg founded the band in November 2015.

The band started out playing basement shows, then booked larger and larger gigs until they landed a residency at Nectar’s lounge in the fall of 2016.

“The question after that was, ‘What’s the next big thing?’” Steinberg said, sitting on the couches of the Wings Davis Wilks complex practice room, among the other members of Jeddy: sophomores Lindsay Ross, Tanner Schanzlin, Elias Levinson and first-year Ben Schnier.

“I had a dream of meeting this dragon from Gazzelroth, and he said, ‘you have to make an album,’” joked Levinson, one of Jeddy’s guitarists.

The room breaks into casual laughter. The band had gathered to rehearse, squeezing in an interview beforehand. Even with the busy day, Jeddy is all jokes, awkward puns and good-natured jabs here and there.

The levity in the room hinted at Jeddy’s energy in the recording studio.

“The actual process of recording and the entire weekend, even if you take

AUTUMN LEE/The Vermont Cynic Drew Steinberg (left) and Elias Levinson (right) of Jeddy perform at the UVM Battle of the Bands March 25. out the music, was one of the weirdest, funniest and most bats--- crazy weekends ever,” Steinberg said.

Only two members of Jeddy, Schanzlin and Schnier, had ever been in a recording studio before. Most of the band didn’t quite know what to expect, and what they found was an experience quite different from playing together live.

The move from live to recording means comprising the looseness of live performance for the sake of getting to the last track, Levinson said.

The pressure is on every member to play their part just right, because one mistake

could mean scrapping the track and starting over.

“I was definitely nervous,” said Ross, Jeddy’s lead singer.

“All your friends are going to listen to it; people you don’t know are going to listen to it.

Even though we’ve performed it so many times, we just had to come down to one version of it. I was nervous that the one version wasn’t going to be something I was satisfied with.”

Any anxiety about the project, however, was soothed with the help of the staff of Gnome Haus, the studio where Jeddy recorded its album. The sound engineers who worked

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with Jeddy brought years of expertise helping musicians lay down their tracks.

According to Steinberg, working with these professionals was far from intimidating.

On the contrary, Ross said, after a weekend of Vietnamese food and recording, the sound engineers knew Jeddy’s music and had even picked their favorite songs.

By the end of the weekend, Jeddy had recorded the seven songs that will appear on their album, “I’ll Do It Anyway.”

“If we had all the money in the world, we would have recorded all of our songs,” Ross said.

Recording an album would be the high point of the year for a student band, and according to Steinberg Jeddy is excited to take a moment to celebrate its success. The band is throwing an album release party for “I’ll Do It Anyway” from 8:30 to 11 p.m. April 8 at the Skinny Pancake on the waterfront.

The release party is just the cherry on top for Jeddy’s year of accomplishments. Yet, sitting with the band before its rehearsal, one gets the feeling that it won’t be long before Jeddy sets its eye on the next “next big thing.”

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The college-aged audience grinned and closed its eyes, swaying together to the band’s groove.

Together, juniors Zach Lewellyn, Ethan Silver-Wheeler and Graham Peterson, as well as seniors Andrew Waterhouse and Vince Urbanowski make up the student band Kudu Stooge.

The group performed with local bands Cosmosis Jones and Doctor Rick for the first-ever Burlington Showcase March 30 at Higher Ground.

Thursday was Kudu Stooge’s first time playing Higher Ground, or an “actual venue,” Urbanowski said.

Urbanowski said he could feel the room’s energy.

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During their last set, Kudu Stooge was ined onstage by Mihali Savoulidis, guirist and lead vocalist for Vermont-based and Twiddle.

Looking out into the crowd, Savoulidis called Twiddle’s similar beginnings at igher Ground.

“I was right there,” he said. “The same om, same crowd, same thing, just 10 ars ago.”

Since beginning their touring career in 05, Twiddle has visited Higher Ground times, according to a board kept by igher Ground founder Kevin Statesir ackstage.

Twiddle’s success story was made posble with the support of local music inustry professionals, such as Statesir and s unofficial protege, senior Tim Cece.

Cece’s talent and ambition echo those the musicians his work supports.

“Last semester, five out of seven nights week, I was at a concert,” Cece said. “I anted to meet everybody. I’m a huge

music fan; I’m a huge audiophile. I’ve always wanted to do music as a future.”

Cece began working for Higher Ground security in September 2016, he said. It was through this work that he met Statesir, and their friendship proved to be fortunate for them both.

Statesir said he had been running Higher Ground for 18 years when the two met.

“I have a lot of family in the business,” he said. “It’s just what we do.”

However, Statesir said he had been growing tired of the venue and sought something new.

“From the time I woke up to the time I went to bed, I was doing this,” he said.

“So when somebody came along and said, ‘would you like to sell,’ I really was thinking of getting out of it. When they did that, I said, I’m going to get out of here, and you know, I’m done.”

Struck by this, Cece questioned Statesir’s decision. He had so many connections and was well-known in town, so why would he leave?

Fortunately, Cece’s question resonated with Statesir.

“Through that conversation with him — one of my first — apparently, unintentionally, I changed his mind about moving to New Jersey,” Cece said. “So, he decided to stay here.”

Since then, the pair have played off of each other’s connections and skillsets to create a professional partnership, Cece said.

They built StatesirReal Projects, a music services company, he said.

Cece and Statesir book tours, act as

featured bands kudo stooge doctor rick cosmosis jones agents, manage and give advice to bands and assume a concert promoter role, where they put their own concerts together, Cece said.

“We’ve got our toes in every little area and we’re trying to build that up,” he said.

Smiling, Statesir said he was happy with his decision to stay in Burlington.

“Working with Tim is probably the smartest thing because he knows all the bands you don’t know,” Statesir said. “He knows about technology, which I don’t.

But I probably have a few connections that he might not yet; and those two things working together.”

The two work particularly well because they have a similar philosophy, Statesir said. “Both of us really like this local music thing, and tonight is really an example of an idea that we had,” he said.

“There’s a lot of people here, and that’s really great.”

The Burlington Showcase is the first true concert promoted through StatesirReal Projects, Cece said.

The show’s purpose was to to give musicians a chance to get to the Higher Ground stage, make more money and

PHIL CARRUTHERS/ The Vermont Cynic Clockwise left to right: Kudu Stooge performs; Zach Lewellyn of Kudu Stooge plays guitar and sings; Kudu Stooge drummer Zach Santasiero; Doctor Rick performs; Senior Tim Cece and Higher Ground founder Kevin Statesir chat behind stage. Cece and Statesir spearheaded the event. have a great time, he said.

Additionally, Cece said he aims to bring back some of the venue’s original vibe..

“Higher Ground, the history of it — this used to be, like, a local haunt,” Cece said.

He noticed a distaste for the venue among kids of the college age but not necessarily the drinking age, as the security staff had been kicking them out or breathalyzing them before they could get in, Cece said.

“I figured if we can give that community a home here, too, maybe they’ll feel more like coming here,” he said.

Statesir gave a nod to Savoulidis and others who support local music.

“People who are really well-known musicians in this area want to come in and want to be part of what we’re doing, too,” he said.

Kudu Stooge’s newest album, “Origin Thang,” will be released April 14, according to the band members.

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Nieva Schemm Staff Writer Four boys milled around the basement practice room of the Wing Davis Wilks complex on a quiet weekday night, tuning electric guitars and plugging in amps.

Will Hanley, a tall, gangly sophomore, sat behind a drum set, warming up on a practice beat.

The band’s development started when Hanley’s friend Ben Febre, who lived in the same dorm building as him, sought him out a few months ago, he said.

“Febre goes: ‘I saw that video you posted awhile back of you playing drums; you’re good, man,” Hanley said.

Hanley and the three other UVM students he plays with in the unnamed band, sophomores Jon Kilian, Alex Doty and Freddie Johns, represent the seedling stages of a college band.

Student bands are a regular occurrence on campuses such as UVM’s. They form through a variety of circumstances and set a range of goals for.

Hanley and his bandmates found each other with the initial goal of playing a single live performance, Hanley said.

Even after achieving this goal, they still meet regularly to practice.

Sophomore Alex Bennett is a member of the band Tongue in Cheek, along with with sophomores Erik Burnsand and Sergei Bluman and junior Matt Griffith.

“During the first week of school, one day I heard guitar coming from this room,” Ben-

ELISE MITCHELL net said. “So I just knocked, introduced myself to Griffith, and we had a little jam.”

The spontaneous way in which Tongue in Cheek came together is common in the formation of college bands, Bennet said.

Through [Griffith], Bennet met [Burnsand]. [Bursand] later got an opportunity to play a show at Battery Street Jeans during the fall semester.

“So two weeks in advance [Bursand] just rounded us up and basically said, let’s be a band, and we were in,” Bennet said.

The members of the band willingly give up leisure time

to commit themselves to the practice room, he said.

“I feel like people think of a college band as this rebellious, college youth type [of thing],” said senior Cole Davidson, lead guitarist of Navytrain, the winner of UVM’s Battle of the Bands. “But I think we’ve been more productive than anything.”

Despite the fact that it can be difficult to balance the band with his schoolwork at times, the rewarding live performances make it well worth it, Bennett said.

“You emit energy while you play, and the crowd then receives this energy and re-emits

it,” he said. “You end up with this back-and-forth interaction with the crowd that you wouldn’t get in other settings.

That’s what keeps me coming back.”

Tongue in Cheek represents a classic college band in the sense that they make the band work through other commitments, and are realistic about not having consistent gigs, Bennett said.

A good way to find gigs is through other bands who give you leads, as well as through friends who are looking for live music to perform at their houses, he said.

Eventually you establish a

name for yourself, and people begin to request you, Hanley said.

UVM serves as petri dish for the many different stages of band development.

While Hanley and his bandmates are still working to firmly make it beyond the practice room, there are success stories such as Kudu Stooge, a seasoned UVM band.

Kudu Stooge played a professional performance March 31 at Higher Ground, and have an upcoming residency at Nectar’s. From the dorm to the stage, there is potential for greatness in the UVM music scene.

Audio experience provides world of sounds Anna Gibson Staff Writer To be handed a plastic-wrapped eyemask at the door of a Saturday night show might seem unusual to some.

During the performances of Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, however, handouts like this are just another part of the routine, Harnett said.

UVM Program Board sponsored an audio show hosted by Hoff and Harnett, co-creators of “The World According to Sound,” March 25 in the Davis Center.

James Biddle, a senior on the UPB arts, film and culture planning committee, was largely responsible for making this event possible. “[The show hosts] emailed my UPB supervisor back in October and the email was sent to me,” Biddle said. “The idea almost was canned in [one meeting], but I felt captivated enough by the concept that I reached out and took it on.”

The podcast, which is currently on an east coast tour, airs 90-second segments on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and originally emerged out of a shared desire to experiment with the medium of radio, Hoff said.

“The idea was that if we made something short enough, we wouldn’t have to tell a story or rely on a narrative arc to draw in listeners,” he said.

While both creators have more traditional public radio day jobs, Harnett in reporting and Hoff in sound engineering, their show is beginning to grow into something more substantial than the initial “passion project” it was, Harnett said.

“When you’re listening to the radio, it is kind of a steady stream of stories and narratives that are all great, but they’d be maybe even greater by having something sound-focused that kind of interrupts those stories to give listeners a moment to think,” he said.

Walking into the Livak Ballroom to pillows scattered in the audience, one might have thought the night was going to be a group meditation. After all, one aim of the show is to create “a space for your mind to just go wherever it wants,” Hoff said.

Lights were turned off and eye masks were put on.

The show began with a long recording of noises create by mud pots in Southern California, bubbling and squirt-

AUTUMN LEE/The Vermont Cynic Students sit in anticipation of the World According to Sound, an immersive audio experience, March 25. ing and dripping, with no explanation, for close to five minutes.

For the rest of the evening, the recordings played included the following sounds: high-frequency recordings of ant activity, the rhythmic thundering of wind on sand dunes, giraffe conversation after dark, high school debaters spewing facts too quickly to comprehend, and the opening lines of Homer’s “Iliad” read in ancient Greek.

Additionally, the hosts played the experimental music of John Cage and Matmos, a band which uses only sounds from washing machines to create rhythms, according to a Nov. 9, 2015 People Magazine article.

One of the most impactful recordings featured the booming and powerful sound of the 2011 earthquake in Japan, sophomore Flannery Mehigan said.

“I’ve never experienced

an earthquake before, and that really shook the room and made me feel like I was in one,” Mehigan said.

Harnett and Hoff explained that their sound collection includes both original recordings collected by the hosts themselves and recordings accessible from other sources.

“This event really succeeded because of word of mouth, and I’m really grateful for that,” Biddle said.

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OLIVER POMAZI/The Vermont Cynic Tamika Mallory (left center) and Bob Bland (right center) speak at the UVM Ira Allen Chapel March 29. Mallory and Bland, the organizers of the Women’s March, spoke to UVM students about becoming more involved in political justice.

Women Continued from pg. 1 More opportunities for involvement are coming up, including the 2018 election season. Mallory said no matter who they’re voting for, people need to know their elected officials.

“We’ve already seen what happened with Trumpcare not even getting to a vote,”

Mallory said. “These things are happening because people are engaged, so we need to stay politically and actively engaged from a grassroots level.

That’s what has to happen to shake this country up.”

Students can become involved in politics by staying informed, continuing to protest, doing service work and running for positions, Bland explained.

“We are not going to achieve gender equality in leadership if people aren’t running for positions,” Bland said.

“You don’t have to wait.”

Mallory noted the name of the room she sat in before the talk, the Martin Luther King Jr. Room in Billings.

“Dr. King was 39 years old when he died,” she said. “He was a very young man, which means the moment when he

knew he wanted to be a leader started while he was young.”

Mallory and Bland are acting on the importance of reaching out to young people who have the ability to influence their peers and ignite social change.

Sophomore Mehanna Borostyan, a UPB committee member, said the evening was a total success.

“I think it was definitely

inspiring, and I hope students will take action after this,” Borostyan said.

Junior Chris Petrillo, UPB committee member and incoming SGA president, was inspired by the conversation.

“I can’t say I was really educated before this event, but I’m definitely motivated to have that educational aspect now,” Petrillo said.

Campus sandwich shop plans to ends hunger with grilled cheese Izzy Siedman Assistant Life Editor A warm grilled cheese delivered with a smile and paid for with a small donation makes students feel good and helps hungry people around the world.

FeelGood is much more than just a sandwich shop; it’s a nationwide charity organization that puts its cheesy profits towards solving world hunger.

According to the FeelGood website, the organization’s goal is to end poverty by 2030.

Volunteers set up their stand at the junction between the tunnel and the Davis Center first floor each day from Tuesday through Friday.

Along this route between dorms and classes, FeelGood members cook up grilled cheese sandwiches from locally-sourced ingredients.

In addition to the buildyour-own and classic sandwiches, they often offer specialties based on in-season veggies and sauces selected by senior Emma Taylor, FeelGood’s Deli Manager.

Though there is no set price for their creations, FeelGood’s menu sign in the Davis Center suggests a donation of $4 or $5.

“It’s true we get some people who ask for free sandwiches,” said senior Korrianne Little, president of logistics.

“But on the other side of the spectrum, we get parents who hand us 20s.”

Little began her grilled cheese career during her first year at UVM, when a friend encouraged her to run for an officer position, she said.

Starting as an advertising committee member, she has risen through the ranks to her current position.

She explained that her role includes making sign-ups for special events, sending out newsletters and checking volunteer schedules to keep churning out the grilled cheeses.

Officers commit about 10 hours to FeelGood every week, Little said.

“We always need more volunteers,” she said. “Officers often get burned out because they pick up extra shifts, like opening and closing.”

Shifts last about one hour and can be handled in between classes, Little said.

“I wish we had more members and that more people knew about us,” said sophomore John Zambarano, social media chair, in response to what he would change about the club. “Everyone knows us as just the ‘grilled cheese club.’”

By providing food to hungry college students, FeelGood has raised $18,643 in

KIRA NEMETH this academic year alone, said junior Sara Fergus, who serves as club treasurer. According to Fergus, this year’s projected earnings will be 14 percent higher than last year’s total.

Echoing other club members, “one change I would like to see: more membership,” Fergus said. “our membership used to be higher, which

allowed us to power more partnership events.”

UVM FeelGood is the largest chapter in North America, and the funds it raises go to organizations that train impoverished areas in infrastructure, sustainability and long term solutions, Little said.

“If you love it, you can live and breathe FeelGood,” Fergus

said. Volunteers are passionate about their work, and more than anything, want to spread the word.

“Hunger and poverty are such overwhelming issues in our world,” Little said. “FeelGood is a tangible and wholesome thing I can do to actually help people.”

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Day of visibility shines light on trans issues Anna Power Staff Writer Transgender Day of Visibility is intended to celebrate the trans community. On March 31, UVM’s LGBTQA Center held its second annual TDOV in the Davis Center.

TDOV was created in 2010

by Rachel Crandall, the head of Transgender Michigan, according to the Transgender On-campus Nondiscrimination Information Project’s website.

Graduate student Benjamin Kennedy brought TDOV to UVM last year by getting funding and tabling for it, he said.

He said he hopes the day gives trans students a voice on campus.

“I think often they’re pushed aside and disregarded, and lately students have done a good job at getting some momentum behind things like gender neutral bathrooms,” Kennedy said, “but it’s definitely not perfect.”

Some of the goals of Transgender Day of Visibility are increased awareness, knowledge and visibility of trans people, according to Becky Swem, Education and Outreach coordinator for the LGBTQA Center.

Swem described it as “a day of empowerment.”

TDOV is a day of celebration and acknowledgement, according to Trans Student Educational Resources, a transgender advocacy group.

“So often trans people face violence and discrimination,” Swem said. “We need to continuously remember and work toward ending that, but today we celebrate.”

Aside from celebration, she said she hopes the day creates more awareness for the UVM

AUTUMN LEE/The Vermont Cynic Transgender on-campus nondiscrimination Information Project.’ community.

“In a perfect world, people could just be who they are without judgment and without the oppression faced by the trans community,” Swem said.

Kennedy shared his own recent experience facing hostility at UVM. “A week ago I was attacked in a bathroom on campus, and it’s 2017,” he said. “I have dedicated my life at UVM to fixing these things. I can’t imagine being a younger trans student that that happened to — I would’ve left UVM.” TDOV gives trans students voices and hope, Kennedy

said.

“The day is also about helping students who are cisgender and not involved in the queer community,” Kennedy said. “[It’s] an opportunity to see that we’re here, that we’re normal students and faculty like all of them, and that they wouldn’t necessarily know if we were here if we didn’t tell them.”

“I hope this event impacted the UVM community especially by both providing an outlet of visibility and celebration on campus as well as a reminding to all that there is always more to learn,” said

junior Olivia Harris, founder of UVM’s Queer Women’s Group.

The LGBTQA Center also announced that the 2017 Translating Identity Conference will take place Oct. 14, Harris said.

According to Harris, the annual conference lasts all day and offers workshops and talks about gender identity.

“I hope this event impacted the UVM community especially by both providing an outlet of visibility and celebration on campus as well as a reminder to all that there is always more to learn,” she said.

Harris felt the event was

successful.

“We had people approach our table and ask questions as well as take informational pieces,” she said. “Visibility is all about being recognized and that recognition comes with questions so I would absolutely say the event was positive.”

The importance of TDOV is to bring the community together and celebrate the progress that has been made so far, Kennedy said.

“This day is about love,” Swem said.

Saturday night DIY tattoos easily decorate body Tell It Like It Izz Izzy Siedman

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ost idyllic Saturday nights don’t include poking a needle repeatedly into your skin, but I had the time of my life doing just that.

I took a leap of faith of this weekend; laying sideways on the Yogibo in my Living and Learning Center common room, my close friend gave me a stick-and-poke with ink smuggled from my art class.

The smell of isopropyl alcohol reminded me of rolling up my sleeve for a shot at the doctor’s office, and I can’t deny the slight pain caused a few curses to pop out of my mouth.

But with my friends laughing around me, and an unlimited supply of cute dog pics to distract me on my phone, I made it through the process unharmed.

“You know what made the difference for me?” said first-year Max Greenwood after his tiny tat was complete.

“Having great friends to talk me through it, because it hurt like a motherf*****, but I really

IZZY SIEDMAN wanted it.”

More than 45 million Americans are now tatted up, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, so why not me, too?

“Most people our age who have or want tattoos probably have a stick and poke already,” sophomore Georgie Marchesseault said. “I’d say it’s pretty normal, especially because

college kids can’t afford professional ones.”

In addition to three professional tattoos, Marchesseault recently inked a tiny planet into her skin, she said.

Truth is, I’ve been eyeing tattoo parlors for two years.

I doodle my dream tattoos in the margins of my notes, follow tattoo blogs on Tumblr and have even gone for a con-

sultation at Vermont Custom to check on prices.

What holds me back every time as I pass the parlor while shopping on Church Street is my parents’ approval.

They don’t hate tattoos; they only worry that I’ll regret it in a few years when the adrenaline of my youth wears off, and I respect that.

But my body is my own

and I see it is as a canvas for the things I love – even if that means a few thorns in my side.

My stick-and-poke is small, relatively hidden and absolutely adorable.

I’ll give my family the respect they deserve and wait a while longer before fully inking up my arm; but for now I’m satisfied with the small, hand-poked tattoo on my side.

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LIFE

Students drawn to mindfulness on campus The Health Corner Michaela Paul

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t UVM the term “mindfulness,” is thrown around alot, yet I never have a complete understanding of what it is and how I too, can practice it.

Mindfulness practices are actually informed by Buddhism, said Lindsay Foreman, director of Engage Mindfulness for Living Well.

But one does not have to be Buddhist to engage in mindfulness, she said.

“Actually, many people of different religions practice the techniques of mindfulness to deepen their spiritual experience,” she said. “There is no dogma or belief system, so one does not have to have any religious interest to get involved.”

Mindfulness can be used in a variety of ways, including developing a deeper understanding of ourselves, others and the world around us, according to the Center for Health and Wellbeing website.

It is a combination of relaxation and concentration that allows someone to focus on their mind and body, according to the center.

“In yoga, that may translate into the awareness of our breath, our thoughts or even our actions both on and off the mat,” Tuttle said.

Individuals have the opportunity to reflect on how their practices affect themselves and others, since with an increased self awareness and greater connection to our truth, we can better make conscious choices that help us to be content with what is exactly as we are moment to moment,

GENEVIEVE WINN Tuttle said.

Jess Cohen ‘16 alumna and special educator at Swanton School in Swanton, Vermont said mindfulness has benefitted her life.

“As a yoga instructor, special educator and someone who meditates daily, I have woven mindfulness into all aspects of my life,” Cohen said. “Mindfulness has allowed me to look at my life and current situations from a place

of compassion and non-judgment.”

She has developed the skills necessary to handle difficult situations by connecting with her breath and being able to ground herself in the present moment, Cohen said.

In order to pass down the techniques she has learned, including breathing exercises, focusing on the inner self and being in the present, Cohen has started to incorporate

mindfulness into her lessons with students.

This helps increase their own self-regulation skills and confidence in school and in life, she said.

Mindfulness is an empowering practice for individuals, Foreman said.

“The skills of mindfulness support us to experience ourselves and our world with greater clarity and compassion,” she said.

Students are often drawn to mindfulness because they feel overwhelmed, stressed or lost for a variety of reasons, Foreman said.

“When they start to dive into the practices they not only start to find relief, but also feel more alive in a way they had not imagined,” she said.

This practice can be used not only for individual wellness, but also as a tool for social justice, Foreman said.

This perspective stems from the work of Thich Nhat Han, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who encouraged a group of staff at UVM to initiate a mindfulness practice center on campus, Foreman said.

The “Engage Mindfulness” program at UVM is a tribute to him and the work he has done with social justice and the environment, she said.

Han helped others understand that the insights gained from practicing mindfulness have the ability to inform how we decide to shape our world, such as how compassion can impact choices when one is faced with injustice, Foreman said.

“For me, I am not practicing mindfulness so that I can just thrive in an unjust world, but instead examine my participation in injustice and do my best to undo harm and work towards justice,” she said.

Michaela Paul is a senior biology major. She has been writing for the cynic since spring 2016.

Niche local bar makes eating out fun and affordable Chris’s Critique Chris Leow

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’ve probably walked or driven by Drifter’s Cafe & Bar over a hundred times since it opened last June and never thought to venture inside; that was my loss.

Located at 156 North Winooski Avenue, it has a funky but unassuming exterior. This, however, provides the perfect cover for one of Burlington’s hippest and, quite frankly, best eateries.

The vibe inside is welcoming, with plenty of plants, textured wood and dim lighting.

The restaurant’s casual style means that you go to the register to order food and drinks, seat yourself and bus your own dishes.

The small space is usually tightly packed with dates and groups of friends, with some smaller parties having to sit with strangers to grab a seat.

While you wait for your food, the open concept allows you to see dishes and beautiful desserts being plated and garnished, making it particularly hard to not order and try everything coming out of the kitchen.

The menu is organized

into $5, $8, $10 and $12 dollar small plates, making dining at Drifter’s very affordable and customizable, since the diner can choose how much to spend and how much they want to order.

The food is chock-full of world flavors and unique combinations, offering fusion creations from confit-duck tacos to korean pork belly flatbread.

There is also a lot of vegan and vegetarian fare, with dishes like veggie sliders and sweet and sticky seitan skewers.

I chose the ramen for my main dish and paid a little extra to have it topped with crispy pork belly, which was recommended by a Drifter’s employee.

The savory duck broth paired perfectly with the slippery noodles, but I can’t imagine getting it without the crispy pork belly, which provided a saltiness that really rounded out the dish.

I also ordered the arugula and kale salad, which was perfectly dressed and topped with carrot kimchi and shaved pistachios.

After watching my neighbors devour the dessert special, I couldn’t resist ordering

MAX MCCURDY/The Vermont Cynic Senior Colin Rugg eats a meal at Drifter’s café and bar on North Winooski Avenue. the beautiful French birthday cake to finish my meal, complete with fresh fruit, whipped cream and ice cream.

Drifters offers some of the most delicious food in Burl-

ington at any price, and is a great place to meet people in a unique laid back setting.

Order whatever catches your eye; it’s certain to be delicious.

Chris Leow is a junior medical laboratory science major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2015.

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Students pop UVM’s liberal bubble EXECUTIVE Editor-in-Chief Kelsey Neubauer editorinchief@vtcynic.com Managing Editor Bryan O’Keefe newsroom@vtcynic.com Assistant Managing Editor Mariel Wamsley newsroomassistant@ vtcynic.com OPERATIONS Operations Manager Ryan Thornton operations@vtcynic.com Advertising Manager Cole Wangsness ads@vtcynic.com EDITORIAL Arts Benjamin Elfland arts@vtcynic.com B-Side Margaret Richardson bside@vtcynic.com Copy Chief Lindsay Freed copy@vtcynic.com Layout Kira Bellis layout@vtcynic.com Life Greta Bjornson life@vtcynic.com Multimedia William Dean Wertz media@vtcynic.com News Olivia Bowman news@vtcynic.com Opinion Sydney Liss-Abraham opinion@vtcynic.com Photo Phillip Carruthers Max McCurdy photo@vtcynic.com Social Media Liv Jensen socialmedia@vtcynic.com Sports Eribert Volaj sports@vtcynic.com Video Molly O’Shea video@vtcynic.com Web Connor Allan web@vtcynic.com Assistant Editors Ariana Arden (Opinion), Bridget Higdon (Arts), Locria Courtright (Sports), Erika B. Lewy (News), Lily Keats (Layout), Karolyn Moore (Copy), Izzy Siedman (Life) Page Designers Tiana Crispino, Ed Taylor Copy Editors Brandon Arcari, Hunter Colvin, Michelle Derse Lowry, Rae Gould, Adrianna Grinder, Linnea Johnson, Kira Nemeth, George Seibold, Meline Thebarge ADVISING Faculty Adviser Chris Evans crevans@uvm.edu

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Staff Editorial

university is a marketplace of ideas.

The discussions we choose to have on campus will define the solutions that we develop in the real world after college.

Every person has a different opinion. Our nation is built around a political system that is not meant to divide us, but to help us enter into a conversation that will ground a three-dimensional vision for a unified democracy.

The word “university” has its historical roots in a meaning defined as a totality of idea. The university is meant to capture as much of the full scope of perspectives as possible.

This week, UPB decided to reinforce this democracy by bringing two notable figures to campus.

Their idea, the 2017 Women’s March on Washington,

sparked a worldwide movement that millions stood with, not only in America.

But, we lose touch with the big picture when we only amplify the voices we choose to listen to, and silence those we deem second-rate.

It is easy to to listen to those that agree with us, but also unproductive.

In these formative college years we shouldn’t close ourselves off to voices we’re not often exposed to. Closing ourselves off to the perspectives we’re less exposed to limits not only ourselves but the future of this nation.

If every perspective remains confined in their own echo chamber, with their own biases, it will fuel division rather than unity.

In this kind of “bubbled” nation, we can never peacefully and democratically resolve any issue.

By listening to voices we

are not used to hearing, we can understand that these ideas are valid. The university is a place to facilitate and promote this listening and exchange of ideas to attain a more universalized conversation.

At a liberal university like UVM, right-leaning voices are often drowned out by a heavy-handed liberal perspective. We are so indulgent in our spoon-fed perspective, we fail to see other sides — and in effect — the bigger picture.

We should strive to pop UVM’s liberal bubble, and aim toward understanding all perspectives to solve pressing issues and achieve a more well-rounded and unified University.

Staff editorials officially reflect the views of the Vermont Cynic. Signed opinion pieces and columns do not necessarily do so.

KIRA BELLIS The Cynic accepts letters in response to anything you see printed as well as any issues of interest in the community.

Please limit letters to 350 words. The Cynic reserves the right to edit letters for length and grammar. Please send letters to opinion@vtcynic.com.

Nation drowning under Trump’s program Lily Spechler

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opefully that wall that Trump is building will double as a raft to save us from the perpetually rising sea levels induced by climate change.

Trump’s plan to revive the coal industry and cut back on environmental regulations will potentially be one of the most expensive and dangerous mistakes of all time.

An article by The Huffington Post warns that climate change will be the number one driver of war and displacement in the very scarily near future.

It is time to take partisanship out of the conversation of climate change because evidence suggests that climate change impacts will be the costliest epidemic to date.

In 2013, The Huffington Post reported that Hurricane Sandy cost $65.7 billion dollars. The 2012 drought and heatwave cost $30.3 billion dollars.

The Ohio Valley extreme weather and tornadoes of March and April 2013 cost $6.4 billion dollars. Climate scientists warn that extreme weather patterns will only increase in intensity and frequency if action is not taken to reduce carbon emissions according to Rolling Stone.

Trump enacted his new “Energy Independence” order March 28, which challenges Obama’s Clean Power Plan that sought to reduce carbon emissions under the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015.

Trump’s statement to the Environmental Protection Agency was: “I am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations,” according to AM New York.

I wonder if Americans will be screaming for government intrusion when Miami is underwater by the end of the century.

SEBASTIAO HUNGEBUHLER According to The New Yorker, Miami has already spent about a hundred million dollars on flood defense.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts sea levels will rise by 52-98 cm by 2100, which threatens coastal cities and island nations, according to VICE media.

The projected sea level rise will cause most of New Orleans, along with Miami and New York City, to be submerged by the end of the century, according to VICE. Going back to Trump’s statement regarding “job-killing regulations,” it should come as no surprise at this point that Trump is spreading false information.

American wind power created 88,000 jobs by the start of 2016, which is a 20 percent

increase in a year, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

Solar power already employs more than coal mining, adding 50 percent more jobs in 2014 than the oil, gas, crude petroleum and natural gas industries combined, according to a January 2015 Fortune magazine article.

Need I clarify: RENEWABLE ENERGY IS ECONOMICALLY VIABLE! The fossil fuel industry is not. The cost of inaction is approximately $44 trillion by 2060, according to a CNBC article written in August 2015.

Trump wants to make America great again, and now it is time to show him how.

Standing up against Trump’s climate-change expediting policies has never been more important, and it is up

to both liberals and conservatives to speak out.

Climate change is not a partisan issue; it is a humankind issue. It’s time we do the math and face the facts or we will be in some deep water.

Literally. I have all the tools I need to obtain happiness.

When asked what surprised him the most about humanity, the Dalai Lama responded, “Man…he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

Don’t suffer injury from repetitive behavior. Take control of your mind, reverse your thinking cycle and take control of your entire life.

Lily Spechler is a senior natural resources major. She has been writing for the Cynic since 2016.

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Vermont refugees’ employment issues Gabriella Marchesi Sarang Murthy Current Refugee Situation In the fiscal year 2015, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants reported 69, 948 refugee admissions nationally.

Three hundred-twelve of these refugees, hailing from Bhutan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Burma and Burundi, were resettled in Vermont.

The U.S. State Department says the average refugee’s resettlement expenses add up to about $1,800 over the first eight months.

Ninety-five percent of refugees in the Vermont program find work over their first six months, and because of this, the average cost of setting up a refugee in Vermont is less than the national average, according to WCAX. Most of these workers are seasonal or temporary, and unemployment numbers are higher for refugees nationally.

This cannot just be chalked up to “low skill.” Twenty-eight% of refugees had at least a four year college degree compared to 29 percent of U.S.-born adults.

Despite having similar levels of education, refugees have a much higher rate of unemployment, and are more prone to labor market stressors such as cyclical fluctuations, meaning the natural cycle of unemployment highs and lows.

This may not necessarily be because they aren’t as skilled but because of a discount in their perceived human capital — more about this later.

Refugees that are granted refuge in the United States

RORY CLANCY

have a plethora of obstacles to overcome, and as of late, these obstacles are mainly in the form of the overly-bronzed buffoon now residing in the White House.

The impact of President Trump’s anti-immigration executive orders earlier this year had halted plans to bring in over 50 refugee families to Vermont. This rabble-rousing action has since been reversed by the courts, and all entrants will be welcomed.

Language and Skill Barriers Think about your semester abroad in Latvia. You probably didn’t know the language, were new to the culture and were an outsider.

It wasn’t the end of the

world, though. You were there to “study,” and would eventually go home.

Now consider a refugee fleeing a war-torn homeland that is in search for their own rendition of the American dream.

They aren’t going back “home”. This is home now, and the social and cultural barriers faced by are beyond the reach of comprehension to most of us.

The USCRI-Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program provides free English language instruction to refugees and asylees, ages 17 to 65, who enter Vermont communities.

The organization’s goal is to assist refugees through spoken and written English language classes.

The belief is that by empowering refugees with English proficiency, the new Vermonters will have the tools to make their families stronger and their communities richer by bringing global diversity to the relatively homogenous Vermont.

A plug for this indispensable organization: You can support the ELL program by volunteering as a tutor or instructor, by donating money to buy textbooks and such, or by sponsoring a class. To learn more, contact Ashraf Alamatouri at aalamatouri@uscrivt. org.

The USCRI-VRRP network also provides interpretation and translation services in addition to the ELL program.

A more exhaustive list of

services offered by VRRP include employment assistance, medical case management, family strengthening workshops and opportunities for community engagement.

“Vermont refugees’ employment issues” is part of the three-piece series, “A Better Understanding of Refugees in Vermont’s Economy,.” Learn more about Vermont’s refugees in next week’s issue.

Gabriella Marchesi is a sophomore economics major. She has been writing for the Cynic since 2016.

Sarang Murthy is a senior economics major. He has been writing for the Cynic since 2015.

Relay for Life: an experience of hope and inspiration Letter to the Editor

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ear Editor,

My name is Grace Murphy.

I have never participated in a Relay for Life event until this year. I joined UVM’s Colleges Against Cancer club at the beginning of the year and I have committed a lot to this club.

I have been inspired watching the donations made to my team throughout this event. I am incredibly competitive and I am very passionate about this organization so I decided that I wanted to be one of the highest fundraisers for this year.

I have been thinking about donating all of my hair for about a year now and I thought that this would be a fun way to raise a lot of money and give a little kid a wig that would raise their confidence and make them feel better.

I posted on Facebook that if I raised $800 in a week, I would donate all of my hair. I thought it was a stretch asking for so much because most of my friends are college students and rarely even splurge

on coffee.

But within four days, I raised just under $1,200! This was so amazing to see. Every time I would get an email alerting me of a new donation, I would not be able to stop smiling!

On the last day of spring break, I went into the hair salon and told the woman behind the counter that I wanted her to shave off all of my hair.

She later told me that this was the most extreme haircut she has ever been asked to do. I brought along several of my friends, my brother, and my mom.

This was an extremely fun experience to have with all of them, but it has also given me so much hope and inspiration.

Several of my friends are now growing their hair to donate it and one has even told me that she wants to shave her head like me at the beginning of this summer.

Seeing everyone’s reaction to my haircut has really been a wonderful experience that I did not expect at all.

I Relay in honor and in memory of so many people

SYDNEY LISS-ABRAHAM that I love that have been affected by cancer. One of my closest friends from home, who is a survivor herself, lost her mother a few years ago to cancer.

Knowing how hard and long her mother’s fight was pushed me to join this club and try to make as big of a difference as I could. My mom also fought colon cancer last year and is now in remission.

During her fight, I saw a completely new side of her.

I already knew that she was strong and amazing, but I saw a new kind of strength in her and my dad. They went through this fight as a team and came out as winners.

Everyone I know has been affected by cancer in some way. By raising this money, we are funding research to discov-

er a cure for this horrible disease along with helping those that are currently fighting.

This money will be used to change so many lives and it makes me ecstatic to think that I am playing a small role in that.

Sincerely, Grace Murphy First Year

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SPORTS

Senior catamounts take a bow Locria Courtright Assistant Sports Editor With the season over, three men’s basketball players have

played their last game in green and gold. The class of 2017 consists of two four-year seniors, as well as a transfer who

joined the team as a junior.

The four-year seniors compiled a career record of 94-45.

Kurt Steidl

Though his career didn’t end the way he wanted to, Steidl put together a solid four-year campaign at UVM as a reliable all-around player.

The guard/forward from Ridgefield, Conn. made an instant impact at UVM, earning a spot on the America East All-Rookie Team his first season after setting a program record by shooting 48.8 percent from three, a sign of things to come.

Steidl shot 39.6 percent from the beyond the arc in his career, the second-best percentage in program history, according to UVM athletics.

He was also reliable from the free throw line, with his 81.1 percent success rate clocking in at eighth in UVM history.

Steidl also provided leadership, serving as co-captain for his junior and senior seasons, and perimeter defense.

He finished his career as the 28th member of UVM’s 500-point 500-rebound club, grabbing his 500th career rebound Feb. 15 against the

PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic Ridgefield, Connecticut native Kurt Steidl is pictured.

University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

“It’s a great individual accomplishment,” Steidl said.

“I’m really proud that I was able to do that this year and put my name in the record books with some really good players.”

His future plans are still up in the air.

Steidl tore his anterior cruciate ligament during UVM’s 80-70 loss to Purdue University in the NCAA Tournament, and said the injury “puts in a little question mark.”

Dre Wills

Under head coach John Becker, Vermont basketball has used defense as its calling card. No player exemplified UVM’s commitment to defense better than Dre Wills.

The Indianapolis native was named to three consecutive America East All-Defensive Teams in 2015, 2016 and 2017, and was named this year’s America East Defensive Player of the Year.

The guard cited his mental and physical attributes as a reason for his success on defense.

“I have a good awareness on that side of the ball, and my athleticism helps as well,” Wills said.

Wills would often defend against the opponent’s top perimeter threats, but was not a defense-only one-trick pony.

His career 60 percent field

PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic Indianapolis, Indiana resident Dre Wills is pictured. goal percentage ranks second in UVM history, according to UVM athletics. This can be attributed to his willingness to

attack the rim for easy baskets.

Wills will try to play professionally overseas, Wills said.

Darren Payen

For Darren Payen, it feels like his Vermont career just started. The forward transferred from Hofstra University after his sophomore year, and sat out a year due to NCAA rules.

“The first year that I came here that I wasn’t allowed to play was the longest year of my life,” Payen said.

After starting 25 of 37 games during his first season at UVM, Payen spent his senior campaign coming off the bench, starting just one game.

The forward embraced the role, and earned America East Sixth Man of the Year, posting a program record 70.1 percent field goal percentage in the process.

“It could have kept me

OLIVER POMAZI/The Vermont Cynic Milford, Connecticut local Darren Payen is pictured. down,” Payen said. “But I think I was able to take that role and use it more to help my team win games.”

Payen is undecided on his

future.

“I’m teeter-tottering between trying to play overseas and going to grad school,” he said.

Soccer begins preparing for new season with wins Matt Chimenti-Carmen Sports Writer The men’s soccer team has started their preparation for next season with a couple of close offseason wins.

Vermont defeated The College of St. Rose 1-0 in a home scrimmage, before travelling to West Point to play Army West Point, winning 2-1.

These games were Vermont’s first under new head coach Rob Dow’s charge. Following his five years as a part of the coaching staff, Dow was promoted to take total control of the head coaching position.

Dow becomes the eighth head coach of Vermont men’s soccer program.

“I am extremely excited and honored to lead the UVM men’s soccer team,” Dow said.

“The last five years at UVM have been special for my family and me, and we are proud to say Vermont will continue to be our home.”

Dow is hoping that these offseason games will help the team build identity, he said. “[We’re looking] for us to focus on ourselves and find our identity,” he said. “To carry our traditions of being a hard, gritty team.”

Vermont will be losing a few players who will be graduating this year or have already graduated, including forward Brian Wright, who was drafted

by Major League Soccer club New England Revolution.

Wright was one of Vermont’s most successful players, netting 39 goals and 25 assists during his collegiate career.

Dow said that he’s expecting the likes of first-year midfielder Jon Arnar Barodal, sophomore midfielder Clay Gattey and sophomore forward Trevor Colazzo to step it up this season to fill the boots of the graduating players.

Dow has already started utilizing these players and is establishing a new system.

“We are establishing a new system that involves the domination of central midfield and getting our strongest players in the field at the same time,” Dow said.

The spring schedule consists of four home games, in addition to a trip to West Point and a tournament at Virtue Field April 22. The Catamounts will also play host to Harvard, Merrimack, and a UVM alum-

Men’s Soccer Spring Schedule March 25 Home vs St. Rose (1-0 win) April 2 Away at Army (2-1 win) April 8 Home vs Harvard TBA April 22 Vermont Cup vs Castleton, Norwich and Saint Michael’s at noon April 28 Home vs Merrimack at 6 p.m.

April 29 Home vs UVM Alumni at 4 p.m. ni team this April.

“Spring is all about developmental time, so players will be asked to do things they might not be comfortable with,” Dow said regarding the spring fixtures and training. “I would say we wanted to give our young guys the opportunity to learn and make mistakes while also being tested”.

Vermont had one of the most successful seasons in program history last year, scoring a program record 42 goals and winning a postseason game on home turf for the first time since 1989, according to UVM athletics.

Despite a few key players departing, Dow said that he believes his team can go on to repeat their success.

“There is a strong strong group returning, with the added element of the new guys coming in,” he said. “So yes, I believe we have the tools to have another successful season.”

Vermont returns home to Virtue Field April 8 to play Harvard University. 14 days later, Vermont is back in action, hosting the Vermont Cup April 22 at 12p.m.

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Lacrosse suffers defeat in conference game Locria Courtright Assistant Sports Editor On a day where Vermont men’s lacrosse celebrated the program’s 40th anniversary, University of Hartford spoiled the Catamounts’ party.

The Hawks defeated UVM 15-13 Apr. 1 at Virtue Field in a rematch of the 2016 America East Championship, which Hartford also won.

The start of the game was pushed back 45 minutes due to the snowy conditions.

Despite the delay, Vermont started strong when sophomore attacker Dawes Milchling opened scoring 1:45 into the game Hartford grabbed an equalizer shortly after, but Vermont would score four of the next five goals, including a highlight-reel behind-the-back goal by senior attacker Cam Milligan, to open up a 5-2 lead with around 10 minutes left in the first half.

The Hawks then exploded, scoring seven of the next eight goals and opening up a 9-6 lead.

Sophomore defender Andrew Simeon was able to claw one back for UVM with his first career goal, but Hartford grabbed the next two goals to open the lead to 11-7.

Vermont didn’t go without a fight, as senior defender and captain Ben Cox cut the lead to 11-8, followed by a pair of Milchling goals to pull UVM within one.

However, Hartford scored four of the next five goals to

OLIVER POMAZI/The Vermont Cynic Sophomore Dawes Milchling takes a shot on goal against the University of Hartford April 1. extend the lead to 15-11.

The Catamounts got a lifeline with 3:02 to go as Hartford’s Brendan Gates, Alex Borja and Claude Bradshaw all received one-minute penalties.

UVM was only able to capitalize on this opportunity

once, with Milchling scoring with just three seconds remaining on the penalty.

The sophomore attacker beat the buzzer for his fifth goal of the game, but it was mere consolation.

Milchling paced UVM’s attack, scoring five goals and

assisting on one more for a total of six points, while Milligan and senior midfielder Alex Stanko contributed three each.

Hartford was led by seven points by Griffin Feiner and six from Alec Brown.

In goal, first-year goalkeeper Nick Washuta stopped

14 shots for the Catamounts, while Hartford’s Ryan Vanderford stopped nine.

The Catamounts fall to 4-6 — 0-3 America East — and visit the University of Massachusetts Lowell April 8.

Decorated skier cites drive as the key to her success Sabrina Hood Sports Writer A UVM nordic skier was honored with a major award twice in one week.

Senior Alayna Sonnesyn won the NCAA All-American First Team Title for finishing second in the women’s 15K freestyle race. UVM finished in fifth place overall with 355 points, according to UVM athletics.

“I did not want to put too much pressure on the results” Sonnesyn said. “I just wanted to focus on my own racing and make sure that I was doing the best that I was doing the best I could.”

In past races, Sonnesyn was placing in the 30s, but now she is placing second or third, Weaver said. “[Sonnesyn] worked so hard all summer, fall and winter and to see everything come together for her at the NCAA’s was nice to see,” head coach Patrick Weaver said.

This win gave confidence to both the nordic and alpine teams, which only race together during the NCAA races.

Sophomore alpine skier Mille Graesdal watched Sonnesyn race, and said “she’s impressed and happy for her doing that well.”

Even after this win, Sonnesyn said there’s still room to improve, especially with her

technique.

“She needs to take little steps each year,” Weaver said.

“Get a little stronger, fitter and faster so it is natural to see these improvements in the races.”

The nordic ski team trains 10-15 hours per week during the season. Off season, they train 15-25 hours per week.

When there’s no snow to ski on, they do intensity workouts in the gym, including roller skiing, biking, rowing and weightlifting, Sonnesyn said.

This constant training allows little changes to be made that will make you a better skier, Sonnesyn said.

However, training makes it difficult to balance schoolwork and being a student athlete, she said. “[Before a race] we typically taper the volume, increase the intensity and make sure we are getting good rest and recovery,” Weaver said.

This is very important because races can be mentally and physically tough; since skiers give their all in a race, by the time they cross the finish line they usually fall down, Sonnesyn said.

“You know you’re going to hurt yourself in a race so you need to prepare yourself mentally for how much can I make myself hurt and handle it,” she said. “That’s what your teammates are there for too,

Photo courtesy of UVM Athletics Senior Alayna Sonnesyn competes during the Saint Lawrence Ski Carnival Jan. 20. Sonnesyn won the NCAA All-American First Team Title for finishing second in the women’s 15K at the NCAA Championships. so we rely on each other to get each other through that.”

There’s the understanding on the ski team that you need to have the initiative to go out and improve on your own. To do this, self motivation is key, Weaver said. “[Sonnesyn] has this drive

and her presence on the team gives the others a great teammate to train and race with,” he said.

When Graesdal joined the team, Sonnesyn helped her with training and getting to know other people on the nordic team, Graesdal said.

This year’s NCAA race was a turning point in Sonnesyn’s skiing at UVM. “It is great to see as it shows all the hard work has paid off, not only for Alayna but [it] should also give confidence to the entire team as well,” Weaver said.

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March Madness Report Matt Chimenti-Carmen aturday night was a big night in the college basketball world, as the 4 remaining teams squared off at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

As a reward for their success, the NCAA grants the remaining four teams the opportunity to play in a professional football stadium. This tradition continued Saturday night when the No. 1 seeded Gonzaga University faced off against the No. 7 seeded University of South Carolina.

This was the first Final Four in over 40 years where two teams made their championship weekend debut.

A scary moment for Gonzaga Bulldogs fans came late in the first half when senior forward Przemek Karnowski took a shot to the eye and was forced to leave the game. Karnowski has been a vital part to the Gonzaga program recording a NCAA-record 136 wins during his collegiate career.

Without the winningest player in college basketball history, the Bulldogs took it upon themselves to step up.

They went on a 14-5 run to close the first half, and took a nine-point lead into halftime.

The resilient South Carolina Gamecocks stormed back in the second half to take the lead. They increased their defensive pressure which helped promote open shots on offense. Sophomore guard PJ Dozier netted 17 points for the Gamecocks in 30 minutes of action.

The Gamecocks were unable to carry their momentum through the second half. They went cold on the offensive end, only connecting on two shots over the last seven minutes of the game.

The Bulldogs recaptured the moment and held on to win 77-73 behind 23 points, six assists, and five rebound from junior guard Nigel Williams-Goss. The Bulldogs celebrated their first ever entrance into the big dance championship.

As they stormed to the locker room to celebrate their

victory, the second game of the night began between the No. 1 seeded University of North Carolina and the No. 3 seeded University of Oregon.

North Carolina was the most picked team to win the tournament, according to Sportscenter, with 15% of all brackets choosing them as champions.

The entire game was battled back and forth, with neither team pulling away. North Carolina headed into half with a slim margin of three points.

The Oregon Ducks matched the North Carolina Tar Heels on both ends throughout the first half, and limited Tar Heels senior guard Joel Berry III to just 11 points on 2-14 shooting.

The second half was much of the same. Ducks star junior forward Dillon Brooks had to sit more than he usually does because of foul trouble. He contributed 10 points and six rebounds, but committed six turnovers before fouling out.

Without one of their best players, the Ducks looked to junior forward Jordan Bell, and sophomore guard Tyler Dorsey to close the game. Both players had a significant impact, but ultimately came up short.

The Tar Heels played through their two big stars, senior forward Kennedy Meeks and junior forward Justin Jackson.

Down the final minute of action, the Heels missed four consecutive free throws that would have put the game out of reach for the Ducks. A huge offensive rebound from Kennedy Meeks cemented the Tar Heel win.

The combination of Meek’s rebounding and inside scoring with Jackson’s shooting ability from outside help lead the Tar Heels to 1 77-76 victory.

After falling short in 2016, the Tar Heels won the NCAA men’s basketball championship late Monday night, defeating Gonzaga 71-65.

Matt Chimenti-Carmen is a sophomore Business major who has been writing for the Cynic since spring 2015.

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Looking back at March Madness University of Kansas senior guard Frank Mason III has been given the 2017 Citizen Naismith Trophy, an award presented annually to the best men’s college basketball player.

This was the third meeting between North Carolina and Gonzaga. Gonzaga beat North Carolina in a preseason game in 2006, and the Gamecocks beat the Zags in the 2009 Sweet 16.

Both finalists, Gonzaga and North Carolina, were No. 1 seeds. This has only happened seven times before; North Carolina was in three of those finals and won all of them.

This was the third meeting between North Carolina and Gonzaga. Gonzaga beat North Carolina in a preseason game in 2006, and the Gamecocks beat the Zags in the 2009 Sweet 16.

Mason became the first player in Big 12 and Kansas history to average 20 points and five assists per game. The other finalists were UCLA’s Lonzo Ball, Villanova’s Josh Har and Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan.

CBS Sports and Turner Sports’ coverage of the tournament is averaging 10.4 million viewers, the second most watched in 23 years.

2017 NCAA Women’s Final Four University of South Carolina won their first championship, defeating Mississippi State 67-55 in the championship game.

Junior forward A’ja Wilson was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player, after recording 23 points and 10 rebounds in the championship game.

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Indoor team maintains perfect record Greg Mandozzi Sports Writer The Vermont Bucks continue to dominate on the indoor football field, as they soared to a 62-14 victory on Friday night.

The Gutterson Fieldhouse was packed with Bucks fans as they set their sights on the neighboring New Hampshire Brigade. The impressive Bucks win propels the team to a perfect 3-0 start this season.

The Bucks stormed ahead early, and never looked back taking a 34-6 lead into the half.

Quarterback Steffen Colon tossed for five touchdowns and the defense suffocated the Brigade, allowing just 14 points all game.

This was the Bucks’ third convincing win, after they defeated the Connecticut Chiefs 73-21 in the franchise’s first ever game March 17, followed by a 76-30 win over the Ontario Spartans.

The Bucks are the team to watch as they continue to roll over the competition in the CanAm Indoor Football League. Fans came out to support the team and share in the excitement.

“They usually score a lot.

I really enjoy it,” frequent gamegoer Bobby Tracy said.

“Vermont previously had semi-pro football teams, but never pro. One of my friends is actually on the team from my hometown.”

This was not Tracy’s first time attending a game. He

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referenced the high scoring nature of these contests.

“Hoping it’s not a blowout, but hopefully the Vermont Bucks win,” he said. “It’s great to be undefeated.“ It was clear with the noise and cheering that the Bucks were drawing in a crowd on UVM’s campus.

“I like it; a lot of action,” fan Bill Cleary said. “[It] gives us something to do, it’s great.”

While there is no doubt the fans were enjoying themselves and their team getting the big win, the players had a great time as well; they were dancing and cheering through the duration of the game.

“It was a great game,” defensive back Terell Brown said.

“This team was supposed to be one of the better teams in our league, and for us to beat them in the fashion we did, it boosts our confidence a bit.”

Despite the big win, there

is still much work to do going forward, he said.

“We know we still have to come back next week and practice, go harder and stronger, fix the mistakes that we made, and just keep playing and playing better, that’s all we can do,” Brown said.

Brown also compared Vermont to his football-loving home area.

“It feels great, because [football is big] where I’m from [in the south], so to come up here, and have the fans out here and the way they respond, it’s big,” he said. “The stadium is always loud and rocking, the fans love us so it’s big being here, it’s a good time… like a home away from home right now.”

The Bucks now prepare to welcome in the Glens Falls Gladiators to the Gutterson fieldhouse, kicking off at 7:05 p.m. April 8.

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• Women’s lacrosse at Albany Albany, New York April 5 at 3p.m.

• Track and Field at UMass Quad

Amherst, Massachusetts April 7 at 12p.m.

• Men’s Lacrosse at UMass Lowell Lowell, Massachusetts April 8 at 2p.m.

• Track and Field at Mt. Sac Relays Cerritos, California April 13 at 3p.m.

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Men’s Basketball 29-6 Men’s Hockey 20-13-5 Men’s Lacrosse 4-6

Women’s Basketball 9-20 Women’s Hockey 15-14-9 Women’s Lacrosse 1-11

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