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President of UVM faculty union steps down by john riedel jpriedel@uvm.edu

A new president has been chosen to lead UVM’s faculty union.

Associate Professor Felicia Kornbluh officially stepped down from her position as president of United Academics, UVM’s faculty union, Aug. 24, according to a Sept. 3 press release.

Associate professor John Forbes has been appointed president of UA for the remainder of Kornbluh’s term until June 30 2017, according to the press release.

Forbes has served as vice president of UA for the past three years, according to the press release.

“The Executive Council of United Academics thanks Felicia for her hard work as president over the last 14 months and offers its best wishes to her for the future,” the press release stated.

UA will begin contract negotiations with UVM starting in spring 2017.

UA has been negotiating contracts for UVM’s faculty since 2002, Forbes said in a Sept. 4 email.

“In the immediate future, United Academics will be negotiating new contracts for both our full-time and parttime [employees],” Forbes said. “Our goals are to provide the best possible education for UVM’s students by negotiating

the best possible working conditions for our members.”

UA has also made efforts to work with other unions over the years to support better working conditions for CCTA bus drivers and Sodexo workers.

“United Academics is a strong union that looks forward to playing an important role on the UVM campus and in the larger community,” Forbes stated.

Several faculty members have expressed a positive outlook on the change in leadership.

Senior lecturer Lawrence Rudiger said he was impressed with Kornbluh’s leadership.

“It has always been informed by her scholarship as

well as her compassion as a generous and grounded person,” Rudiger said. “I am grateful for her service.”

Rudiger currently serves as a member of the delegates assembly, representing the College of Arts and Sciences at UA meetings.

“Anticipating that changes in leadership will sometimes be unpredictable, but are always inevitable, we have procedures in place to ensure continuity,” he said.

Senior lecturer Deborah Noel said she is looking forward to see what will happen during the upcoming contract negotiations.

“Leading UA is hard, time-consuming work, and we

have a leadership structure designed to weather changes quickly,” Noel said. “The new president is already hard at work.”

Associate professor David Feurzeig said he believes Forbes is fully capable of filling out the rest of Kornbluh’s term.

“There are numerous committees of UA, each with its own active members and chairperson,” Feurzeig said. “They are the real stability and momentum of the organization, regardless of any shuffling of executive positions.”

Kornbluh was elected UA president Nov. 24, 2014 according to a Nov. 26, 2014 Vermont Cynic article.

SGA to push course info during faculty negotiations by kelsey neubauer kaneubau@uvm.edu

For the first time, SGA will have a hand in contract negotiations between UVM and its faculty union.

Conversations of contract negotiations between the administration and the faculty union, United Academics, are set to begin spring 2017, UA President John Forbes said.

During negotiations, topics such as salary increases and new faculty hires are discussed.

“We will negotiate fair compensation and benefits to encourage the hiring and retention of the best possible faculty here at UVM,” Forbes said in a Sept. 4 statement.

SGA President Jason Maulucci said SGA will ensure the document created gives space

for the needs of undergraduates.

Maulucci has advocated for access to certain course information before courses multiple times over his tenure as president.

Over the past 20 years, conversations regarding releasing course material and syllabi before registration have been something the undergraduate body has requested, particularly so students can know the prices of course materials before enrolling in the course, Maulucci said.

This would give students time to plan to make the money for the books or decide not take the course, he said.

Junior political science and Russian major Nick Vidal said knowing course material in advance would impact student

performance.

“Knowing, in advance, details regarding the material cost of their enrollment in a given class will give them the time

on their work in advance, organize their schedules around dates and, in some cases, weigh their financial ability to take a course,” Vidal said

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We feel that syllabi and expanded course descriptions should be expected when registration opens.

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needed to find cheaper alternatives to their text,” Vidal said.

He said while he recognizes the pressure this would put on professors, he believes this change will have a profound effect on student success. “[This information will allow students to] get started

SGA expects more information on course content to be put into the new agreement, Maulucci said.

“We feel that syllabi and expanded course descriptions should be expected when registration opens,” he said. “We deserve that.”

In order for the agreement to adhere to national laws, this must be a part of the new contract: the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2014 states that textbooks and supplemental course materials needed must be made available at the time course registration opens, Maulucci said.

The wording of the agreement should explicitly state that including such information is a requirement rather than a suggestion, he said.

The last bargain did touch on this, but the language was ambiguous, leaving it unspecified whether pre-registration course descriptions and materials were required or merely preferred, Maulucci said.

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Advising program to expand by end of year By caroline alkire calkire@uvm.edu

UVM’s peer mentor program has launched with plans to expand by the end of the academic year.

It will cost $102,000 to implement the program for the 2016-2017 academic year, according to the official bill titled the Peer Advising for Learning Success Act. The student advisers will be paid a $300 per-semester stipend and a full-time coordinator will be employed with a salary of $65,000, according to the bill.

There are currently 40 mentors employed with the program expanding to 80 in fiscal year 2018 eventually reaching 240 mentors by 2020, according to the bill.

After fiscal year 2021, a per-semester fee of $3.65 will be charged to first-years to make up for the costs of advising over 2,400 students, according to the bill.

The SGA-created program is an initiative that will allow firstyear students to have access to more than just a faculty adviser, after hearing complaints from students about their advisers’ lack of accessibility and overall helpfulness, SGA President Jason Maulucci said.

Students will be able to interact with peer mentors in the Advising Center in the Davis Center.

This summer, upperclassmen in the Grossman School of

Business, biology department and mathematics and statistics department were trained to become mentors for first-year students.

“Each department did recruiting differently,” Maulucci said. “It was a very selective application and interview process.

There were three times as many applications than we could actually accept, so we know it’s a very strong group of mentors.”

Senior Kelly Glander, student mentor in the mathematics and statistics department, applied to be a mentor because she felt the program was something she could have used as a firstyear student.

“I changed my major four times between my first and third semesters, I didn’t have a great advisor and I didn’t really have any friends in similar fields of study as me,” Glander said. “I think that someone who had similar academic interests as me and who wasn’t my adviser would have been a great person to talk to.”

Glander met with her group of first-year mentees during the first week of classes to talk about how the first week was going, along with providing students pizza.

Other mentors have not yet met their mentees, though they have been in contact since the summer through email and plan to meet shortly, mathematics and statistics mentor Andrew Robartes, a junior, said.

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The new Advising Center on the first floor of the Davis Center. First-years are recommended to visit to receive advice on college life.. PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic mentor as a first-year through the Honors College program inspired him to apply to become a mentor this semester, he said.

“Having a peer mentor group allows for some structured activity where there otherwise may not be any, and is especially helpful in meeting people at the start of college,” Robartes said.

Though the program is only currently accessible to three

UVM departments, the end goal of the program is to have the program benefit every incoming first-year, Maulucci said.

“We hope to have first-year students paired with a peer mentor on a 1/10 ratio at full implementation within the next three years,” he said.

After initial meetings with mentees, Glander said she is looking forward to the semester

to come as a mentor.

“The biggest accomplishment, I think, for me as a mentor would be getting to a day where my mentees realized they didn’t need me anymore,” she said.

“Of course I would still be there if they changed their mind, but I feel like when they feel they don’t need me that really shows that I did my job and did everything I was supposed to.”

Alumni association offers post-grad travel program By michelle phillips mphill15@uvm.edu

Alumni will soon be able to travel and study decades after graduating.

The new program, called UVM Discovery Travel, was developed by the UVM Alumni Association in partnership with Thomas P. Gohagan & Company.

Gohagan & Company is “an industry leader” experienced in travel with 35 other alumni associations across the country, Sarah Lenes, associate director of the Alumni Association, said.

The program is geared toward alumni who are nearing professional retirement or graduated 35 to 40 years ago, Lenes

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The program has been developed for people who want to travel, but don’t want to take on logistical planning, she said.

“We thought this was a good way to engage our alumni constituency. We know that many are interested in going abroad and studying further,” Lenes said.

Sophomore Audrey Tuck said she thinks the project will be useful after college.

“It sounds cool and like a good way to connect with old friends from college,” Tuck said.

Two trips have been planned for 2017, Lenes said; “Passage Through the Panama Canal and Costa Rica” is set for Jan-

uary and “River Life Along the Waterways of Holland and Belgium” for April.

“There is a huge educational component to the trips,” she said.

The itinerary for the Panama/Costa Rica trip includes visiting Coiba National Park, the Curú National Wildlife Refuge and numerous museums in Panama City, Lenes said.

The Holland/Belgium trip includes walking tours of Ghent, Antwerp, Kampen and Maastricht.

Only a handful of people are currently signed up, but trips are equipped to take groups of anywhere from 15 to 50 people, she said.

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Drone lab creates 3-D map of Vt. By alexandra shannon amshanno@uvm.edu

A 3-D map of Vermont is being made through the use of drones at UVM. The drone program is a part of the UVM Spatial Analysis Laboratory directed by Research Associate Lecturer Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne.

The project, called “Rapid, Local Aerial Photography & Mapping,” uses small drones with cameras to determine how much material is needed to repair a road, according to SAL’s website.

The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation, according to the website.

The drones make 3-D models by flying around an area and taking hundreds of pictures at a time, O’Neil-Dunne said. The pictures are then combined on a computer to create maps.

The maps have measurements that can be used for construction purposes and risk management, he said.

The drones were first funded by the Dept. of Transportation, O’Neil-Dunne said.

Although the laboratory is a part of UVM, it is supported by external funds, receiving grants from the federal and state governments.

UVM drone labs use drones like the one pictured to create 3-D maps in order to aid construction.

Private companies also hire them to do mapping. The money that is made is used to pay for equipment, floor space fees and employees, O’Neil-Dunne said.

“It costs no money to UVM; they actually receive a portion of our grants,” he said.

The drones the lab uses are

cutting-edge and cost between $20,000 and $50,000, O’NeilDunne said.

“As an academic lab, we can push the envelope in terms of methods and technology, but we pride ourselves in doing more than filling the pages of scholarly journals by generating

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products that help people make better decisions,” SAL’s website states.

The lab is also working with the Lake Champlain Basin Program to map the basin so models of different levels of water quality can be created for research, the website states.

Construction to begin on medical library

Other projects the lab is working on include mapping parks and recreational areas of New York City in collaboration with New York Dept. of Parks & Recreation and Columbia University, the website states.

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Innovative models of education are driving the creation of a new space for UVM students studying medicine.

Construction on a new Learning Commons within the Dana Medical Library will begin in October, combining the latest in classroom and education technology, Marianne Burke, director of the Dana Medical Library, said.

“It is a learning neighborhood,” Burke said.

The project, geared toward propelling medicine, nursing and health science students toward increased academic success, will include learning commons areas and services for students and faculty, she said.

The space will include classrooms, the technology center and a library with extended group study spaces.

The Learning Commons is part of a larger Larner Learning Center, funded as a part of a $19 million donation by Robert Larner, an alumnus of UVM. The gift was the largest in UVM’s history, according to an April 15 Cynic article.

The renovation will cost $2 million, according to the UVM board of trustees May 2016 meeting minutes.

Mia Salgado, a senior in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, said she is excited for the renovations.

“I believe that group study spaces are always a bonus; however, I feel like it may drive more students to use that library,” Salgado said.

AUG. 27 Officers saw a student smoking marijuana outside of University Heights North. The student was sent to the Center for Student Conduct. Marijuana, a pipe and alcohol were confiscated.

AUG. 28 Officers saw a student smoking marijuana in the amphitheater. A grinder, rolling papers, marijuana and a pipe were confiscated. The student was sent to the Center for Student Conduct.

AUG. 28 A fox was spotted near horses and staff at the UVM Morgan Horse Farm. The fox ran off before officers arrived.

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The Dana Medical Library, located in the UVM Medical Center, is undergoing renovations to add study rooms for students. LINDSAY FREED/The Vermont Cynic The library can be crowded at times, she said.

“Historically, the medical school students do not like that undergraduate students occupy the same space; I wonder how the dynamics of undergraduate vs. medical students will change,” Salgado said.

The change is a product of two huge shifts in information and education worldviews, Burke said, the first in educational models and the second in technology.

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show students learn more when they learn from each other, she said.

The classrooms, developed for team-based learning, host group tables instead of lecture rows and a “bring your own device” rule, rather than fixed computers on desks, to better facilitate mobility and discussion, Burke said.

Additionally, technology has allowed for the vast majority of journal subscriptions held by the Dana Medical Library to be read online, she said. As of right

now, the library has 50 in-print journals and 5,000 online journals.

The library is in the process of going digital, Burke said.

“We’ve reduced our [environmental] footprint by reducing [the number of] print articles,” she said.

Some older journal copies now located in the Dana Medical Center Library will be moved to alternate locations, Burke said.

Officers received a report of a student doing drugs in the amphitheater. The student was gone before officers arrived.

AUG. 29 Officers confiscated an abandoned backpack outside of Ready Hall on Trinity Campus.

The backpack had drugs and alcohol inside of it.

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Basketball team crossed the line

UVM to expand peer advising D A

new peer-mentor program and new Advising Center located on the first floor of the Davis Center are examples of initiatives being taken by the University in order to create a more positive advising experience for students on campus.

If you don’t have your own stories of less than ideal interactions with your assigned faculty adviser, then you probably have heard through the grapevine that some students have struggled to get the answers and help that the need from the person that they are told is prepared to advise them.

The new peer-mentor program will cost $102,000 to implement in the 2016-2017 academic year, according to the official SGA bill titled the “Peer Advising for Learning Success Act.” This budget will be used to pay the salaries of the student mentors, who for the first year, are business, biology and math

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majors. SGA President Jason Maulucci said that although the program is currently only accessible to three departments, the end goal is to have every firstyear paired with an upperclassmen mentor within the next three years.

The ideology and principle of this initiative are certainly benign at their roots; students mentoring fellow students at a central location easily accessible on campus. However; in order for it to reach its full po-

tential, the Cynic believes the departments represented need to increase and represent a broader scope of majors.

Also, even with the addition of peer advisers, there needs to be a continued focus and priority on making sure that faculty advisers are held accountable for being accessible to students, and provide them with the guidance that they need.

The four years that students spend in college are undeniably formative and vital in discov-

ering likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses and ultimately a career path. As students, we look up to our professors who are publishing breakthrough research, traveling the world and have decades of experiences in fields ranging from ecology to English.

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The Olympics went off the deep end sean mccullen

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hen the Olympics come around biannually, I am continually caught off guard by the sheer ineffectiveness of Olympic diplomacy.

Between doping scandals and team rivalries, there seems to be no point to the Olympics other than to decide which country invests more money in the training programs for its future sports stars and which country is strongest.

This ancient form of power demonstration may have humble roots in friendly competition, but it has evolved into power mongering; yet another way for international rivalries to be played out.

One needs to look no further than the doping allegations being thrown around by Olympians.

These allegations, while not unfounded, are a symptom of the overall disease affecting the Olympics, and no this disease is not Zika. It is a disease that stems from desire for hegemony in yet another world stage.

An example of this would be when American swimmer Lilly King called Yulia Efimova of Russia’s use of performance-enhancing substances “drug cheating,” despite Efimova having been cleared to swim by the International Olympic Committee. King’s incendiary remarks are a symptom of the overall problem present at international competitions.

One may presume that the desire to win is only possessed by the athletes, but that is only

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scratching the surface. The countries sponsoring Olympians have to ensure the athletes do not embarrass their country.

This is an explanation as to why countries like Russia have in-

Between doping scandals and team rivalries there seems to be no point to the Olympics other than to decide which country invests more money in the training programs for its future sports stars and which country is strongest.

vested so heavily in doping, as well as why Americans have had such explosive reactions to athletes that dope.

While some individual athletes reach beyond their borders to interact in positive ways with competitors, for each athlete that goes and breaks down a border between nations, there is another who is compelled to believe that cheating occurred.

However, what the Olympians see and do does not really matter at all. Instead it is the perceptions held by viewers while they watch the games that influence this in such a negative way.

This perception of the competitors is present in all medi-

as, and is demonstrated by the need to win the most medals, to be the best.

While this competition does wonders for patriotism, it does not bode well for overall international harmony.

I cannot solely prescribe the problems present in international relations on the Olympics, but I can say without a doubt this practice of international athletic competition is a hindrance to international peace.

Sean McCullen is a senior political science, economics and history major. He has been writing for the Cynic since spring 2016.

ear Editor,

On Aug. 25, the Vermont women’s basketball team canceled its road game against University of North Carolina in December, citing North Carolina’s HB2 law, or the Charlotte bathroom bill, which defines discrimination as occurring on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, age, handicap or biological sex — but not sexual orientation.

In other words, pretty much the standing protections of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

It must have been unconscionable for athletic director Jeff Schulman to have allowed UVM athletes into the veritable knuckle-dragging state of North Carolina. One would have thought the basketball team was playing in the North Carolina statehouse.

But they wouldn’t have been, of course. Schulman’s effective boycott of the entire state of North Carolina would seem to the casual observer an obvious overextension of his duties and responsibilities. He is the athletic director; not the director of appropriate statecraft.

But Schulman nonetheless decided that his political predilections, which are not — one assumes — universally held, should leave the students of UNC, who likely had nothing to do with North Carolina’s HB2 law, bereft of what would have been an enjoyable game.

Not to mention the fact that UNC would have given us $17,500, with meals and hotel rooms for the athletes. Way to go.

It should go without saying: Politics and sports are not meant to be mixed. Anyone who has ever watched an ESPN commentator clumsily wax philosophical on matters of state and law knows how cringe-inducing the experience can be.

Similarly, the UVM athletic department should withhold its judgment on the policies of states in whose boundaries they merely play basketball.

Their decision to cancel their planned game in December was supremely unsportsmanlike.

Indeed, the entire purpose of sports is to foster worthy competition that proves transcendental over petty politics.

Why do you think we compete against North Korea in the Olympics? And why was Islam el Shelhalby, the Egyptian Olympic judo fighter, so severely criticized for refusing to shake the hand of his Israeli opponent, Or Sasson?

Well, it was representative of extremely poor sportsmanship to allow politics to enter the ring. No doubt, UVM committed a similar offense in refusing to even see their competitors in North Carolina.

We should feel a due sense of shame.

Sincerely, Joseph Brown Class of 2016

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Buy dogs, not guns. Save lives ariana arden

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un control is, and has been for all our lives, a very hot-button issue.

In 2015, there were 372 mass shootings in America, according to the BBC. I believe there have already been more than that in 2016.

In response to this issue, many people have tried to restrict gun laws — to no avail of course, thanks to the National Rifle Association. People pushing for more relaxed gun laws have had better luck; it is now easier to openly carry a weapon in many places. Because nothing says let’s stop shooting people like giving people more guns.

The University of Texas at Austin has just decided to allow students to carry concealed handguns on their campus. This was met with a fantastic protest called “Cocks Not Glocks,” in which free dildos were given out and waved in the air. Apparently the sex toy is technically illegal on campus, but weapons are not.

Also, over the summer at several Trump rallies as well as the Republican National Convention, supporters of the famed Oompa Loompa-GoneRogue were openly carrying weapons — from handguns to rifles.

When asked, they of course

said they were there to exercise their rights, not to threaten anyone. I mean obviously.

They were met with protest as well; and while all of these protests are moving toward something good and something I believe in, I think we need a new tactic.

America undoubtedly needs more of? Dogs.

Think about it; dogs are great. They are friendly, loyal, playful, good companions and they help people get more active.

They can be trained as therapy dogs to comfort people, and they can be

City people like dogs, country people like dogs, gang members, CEOs, farmers, rednecks, homeless people, those terrifying suburbia people that all look the same — all those people like dogs! And as long as they treat them well, dogs will like all of those people.

City people like dogs, country people like dogs, gang members, CEOs, farmers, rednecks, homeless people, those terrifying suburbia people that all look the same — all those people like dogs!

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The University of Texas protesters are on a good track, I think. They’re trying to substitute guns for something else people like. But not everybody likes dildos, or sex toys in general. No, we need to think of something more wide-spread.

America undoubtedly needs less guns, but you know what

trained as sporting dogs to help you hunt. They can be trained to be in shows or to herd animals or to protect you. Dogs can do anything.

And who doesn’t like dogs?

Sure some people don’t on an individual basis, but as a society, I can’t think of any group that doesn’t like dogs.

And since so many people like dogs, it’ll be a hard idea to oppose. How can a Republican politician, for example, claim to like dogs if he doesn’t support more of them? Does he hate puppies? Down go his polling numbers.

I honestly can’t see any major flaws in this program. Think of how many dogs there are in shelters and pounds across the country. If we started distributing them to people who want guns, we’d get a lot of them into homes.

Letter to the editor

A neighborly tip on returnables for off campus students to help the community

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ear Editor,

I am writing to all off campus students who consume beverages in returnable containers and mix those containers with overall recycling.

As a neighbor to all of you, I’d like to encourage you to separate the returnables from the recyclables for our local neighbors who collect and redeem our returnables.

I leave my bag(s) of returnables out the night before my regular recycle pick-up.

For our collecting neighbors, it makes collecting a lot easier especially in inclement weather.

Sincerely, Ginny McGrath 21 Thibault Parkway

Ariana Arden is a junior English major. She has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2015.

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Spinning your way to strength The qualms

By JACKIE FLYNN JFLYNN2@uvm.edu

Olivia Johnson, a graduate student, teaches a spin class in Gutterson Sept. 5. She is one of many spinning instructors at UVM. PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic

Advisers: your source of academic wisdom at UVM By anna power ampower@uvm.edu

College can become a web of confusion with such a wide range of classes, requirements and schedule options.

It is for this reason that we are each assigned to a faculty member who can help guide us throughout our college experience: an adviser.

Students can find their advisers and their contact information on the MyUVM portal under the “Advising (CATS)” tab.

Students must contact their adviser to schedule an appointment in order to discuss anything related to their academic career, according to UVM’s website.

“Course selection for the upcoming semester, career options and other educational decisions are matters to discuss, as well as any problems that may affect one’s academic performance,” the site states.

Students have experienced many different encounters with their advisers concerning these subjects.

Senior Ian Franco, an engineering major, spoke highly of his adviser meeting.

“I met with them once going into my hardest year,” Franco said.

He said their recommendations concerning his schedule “made the whole semester significantly better.”

“Personally my adviser has been helpful,” and she is “easy to contact and personable,” junior Melanie Johnson said.

“However,” Johnson went on to say, “I have heard of neg-

ative experiences from friends as a commonality amongst advisers as a whole.”

Junior Shauna Corbet is one of those people who has had a negative experience with an adviser.

“One time, I met with my adviser, and he walked out of the room to talk to his daughter on the phone,” says Corbet. “He was gone for 20 minutes and I was late to my next appointment.”

Corbet said she has a new adviser now, who is much better.

Junior Delaney Row also expressed frustration with her advisers.

Row said after switching advisers almost every semester, she was finally assigned a permanent - and unhelpful- adviser during her last semester of sophomore year.

“I had to e-mail him three times until he answered to try to set up a meeting,” Row said.

“When he did answer, he said he was too busy and to go to a drop -in advising session.”

Row also talked about another time where she was able to schedule a meeting with him, “but then when I got to his office for our meeting, I found a note on the door saying he had to run out and to e-mail him to reschedule.”

“The problem to me seems to be that these advisers are also professors, and so advising students really isn’t their first priority,” Row said.

“I think it would be much more beneficial to have advisers whose sole job is to be an adviser,” she said.

Whether you find going to the gym a nightmare, are a fitness fanatic or you like to workout occasionally, group fitness classes offer something for everybody.

With classes like Zumba, kickboxing, TRX, cycling, pilates and plentiful variations of yoga, every student can find something they’ll enjoy regardless of their fitness level.

Kyla Williamson, a senior with a double major in math and studio art, has been teaching group cycling classes at UVM since her sophomore year.

“I started taking spinning classes because I’m a big runner and was training for a half marathon at the time. I needed something to balance out my running, was easy on my knees and a good way to cross-train,” Williamson said, “I heard good things about spinning and fell in love with it right away.”

For some people, taking their first spinning class can be intimidating because of all the bikes, people, loud music and energetic instructors, she said.

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“You just have to give it another shot. It’s usually easier the second time for a lot of people,” Williamson said.

She said her advice to those who are brand new to the class is to simply just try it, and ask the instructor for help getting set up on the bike and do your best during the class.

“Cycling is all about modifying resistance and position to what works best for you,” Williamson said.

Williamson teaches her class on Mondays from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., and twice on Wednesdays, from 12:05 p.m. to 12:55 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

She said she recommends students interested in purchasing an unlimited class pass to buy it for a semester, which is $65. A full academic year pass is $130.

For students interested in receiving instructor certification, the Campus Rec website contains the specific requirements for each group fitness class, which typically includes a fee and a certain number of training hours. Instructor training is hosted at Patrick Gym.

EVIE'S OUTLOOK

Living life downtown two years, and avoiding classes to spend my time switching my EBARTELS@UVM.EDU schedule, major and future life plans.

However, it has also includtarting your junior year at ed coming home each day to a UVM often means starting group of my favorite people, as your life in an off-campus the sounds of muffled Russian house. conversations and the musical This includes an extra stylings of Courtney Barnett 20-minute walk to your welcome me home. morning classes, spending Despite living in complete your real-life money on squalor due to my lack of furgroceries (that you can’t niture, being able to wake up eat all in one sitting or you in the morning and search will be broke) and living for my own Special K in my alongside obscure Burown (communal) kitchen lington residents/lizard and eat it out of my own people. (communal) bowl with Another part of my own (communal) this process is movspoon and return ing in with all to my own (not your friends communal) bed under one to eat it, has roof. been indescribMost of able. my roomThe pleam a t e s sure of finally chose to being able to spend the watch Netflix, s u m m e r independent in Burlingof roommates’ ton, getting a sleep schedules head start on or a hall of judgetheir time tomental strangers gether in our that know you MARISSA LANOFF new house. watch Friday In that time, two o f Night Lights rethem started dating and every peats every hour of every day, single one of them met each is a beautiful step toward adultother’s parents - and are now hood. able to quote each of them.

I can’t wait for our adult-esNow that school has started, que social security-themed I’ve moved into my room and house party this weekend, and begun my own downtown expeto see what the rest of the year rience. with these lovely people will These first few days have Eva Bartels is a junior been filled with avoiding the anthropology major. She has been people I’ve pissed off in my first writing for the Cynic since spring

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of dating by way of apps SARAH HEFT

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inder.OKcupid. Friendsy.

Coffee meets bagel.

If you are a person in college, you have most likely dabbled in online dating.

The ability to view millions of single people’s profiles and judge them in one swipe...what more could you ask for?

My experience with online dating has been comical, to say the least.

I download the latest app, open-minded and hopeful that this time, I will meet a decent human being I have something in common with, and we will go on a date, make out and ride off into the sunset.

I made my profile with the best pictures, and a mini memoir about my life, and waited.

Two weeks later, I decided to delete this devil’s board game off my phone.

If I had a dollar for every time I got a message from someone who either was over the age of 30, from India or asked me how big my tits are, I would have paid off all my student loans.

The few times I have gone on a date, it has usually ended in disappointment. Being stood up, led on or ghosted gets to you after a while.

I think to myself, “What is wrong with me?” “What did I do?” “Why does nobody want to go out?”

Cue self-loathing and pity.

I feel this is a common experience. As women, we sometimes base our self-value on others’ opinions of us.

We are conditioned to believe our value lies in our ability to attract men.

This attitude is not only heteronormative, but crushing when we wait in coffee shops for dates that will never show.

Two weeks later I decided to delete this devil's board game off my phone.

But you know what? Nothing is wrong with us.

It’s the system that’s fucked.

We are trying to streamline dating, a very complicated process, and make it as easy as swiping your fingers.

I say, nay! I am sick of fitting myself into six pictures, 200 words and a five minute survey.

I am so much more than that, and someday someone is going to see that.

So, The Dapper Vagina challenges you all to delete all the apps and let someone see you for you, not your profile.

Sarah Heft is a junior gender, sexuality, and women’s studies major. She has been writing for the Cynic since spring 2016.

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UVM club gets folked up every Friday

By Greta Bjornson gabjorns@uvm.edu

One club hopes to make campus a more relaxed environment through guitars, fiddles, banjos and harmonicas.

Every Friday evening at 5:45 in Living/Learning 216, the sound of strumming instruments and singing voices fills the building as UVM’s Folk Music Club holds its weekly meeting.

The club, whose members are from all different backgrounds and expertise levels, prides itself in creating a laid-back and welcoming atmosphere. There is no audition process and members may attend as many or as few jam sessions as they like.

President Renee Beneski, a senior, emphasized the “relaxed environment” fostered by the club.

“We’re very much there to have everyone come out and have a good time and unwind after a hard week of classes,” Beneski said.

During each meeting, songs are collectively performed from the group’s songbook, “Rise Up Singing.” The club’s officers choose the songs beforehand, but are sure to leave some spots open for member suggestions, she said.

Over the past few years, leadership has aimed to make the club a “more welcoming community on campus,” Beneski said. “It’s for whoever enjoys

Junior Rob Stone, a member of the Folk Music Club, practices banjo at the club’s Aug. 2 meeting. OLIVER POMAZI/The Vermont Cynic music and just wants to hang out and have a good time.”

Aside from their weekly meetings, the Folk Music Club hosts open mic nights and has hosted contra dancing events, a style of folk dancing involving lines of couples.

First-year Rachel Rubinstein, a new member, said she joined because she’s “open to seeing new styles of music” and

hopes to “meet like-minded people.”

“It seems like a nice, open environment and very relaxed,” Rubinstein said.

The club aims to avoid taking itself too seriously, and has even performed renditions like “Uptown Folk You Up” at past informal meetings.

Returning member and sophomore Alana Brown was

also attracted to the club for its casual and easygoing reputation.

“When I came to college, I wanted to sing more and be involved in music and I wasn’t sure if I would have time or be able to join the chorus or choir here,” Brown said. “It’s cool because students are playing live music with their instruments and it’s not a competitive atmo-

sphere.”

Beneski said she credits Folk Music Club for helping her destress from academics and calls it a “crazy, wonderful place.”

“Even if I’m having a terrible week, I know that I’ll be happy after I leave Folk Music Club,” she said.

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s the school year begins, students may find themselves learning or relearning to adapt to the college environment: new classes, new roommates and new challenges.

A senior cinematography major at Champlain College, Jeremy MacKenzie is no stranger to adapting to new environments.

Before enrolling at Champlain, MacKenzie said he was in and out of prison, serving a total of eight years.

As an artist, “there was a lot of trying to find ways around that environment [in prison] and find inspiration in other ways,” he said.

For MacKenzie, years in prison became almost like an artist residency. “I had a moment when I suddenly realized that the time I had didn’t have to be my enemy and I didn’t have to waste it,” MacKenzie said. “People apply for artist residencies to go to somewhere for a month. Imagine if you had an artist residency for years.”

More recently, MacKenzie took on the Burlington art scene, displaying eight wooden scrolls carved into detailed scenes.

The scrolls first went on display in the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery Sept. 4, 2015.

Artist Jeremy MacKenzie performs at Lamp Shop Light Club Aug.29. Themes from MacKenzie’s stories are also found in his scrollwork. MOLLY DUFF/The Vermont Cynic Now, MacKenzie’s completed scrollworks have toured the state, and will be displayed in the Living/Learning Center Gallery Nov. 7 - Dec. 16.

Each scroll tells its own story and is a representation of his experience in prison, MacKenzie said.

“The stories from my environment shaped everything that I designed because almost everything that I designed was related to experiences from that

environment,” he said. “Except that I didn’t have a desire to design work that was representing that environment, but more so the internal experience.”

MacKenzie’s representations of the prison experience are instead inspired by “scenes of Greek mythology, scenes from books or scenes from faraway lands,” he said.

The original seed of inspiration to do carved scrollwork was in fact planted during his time

in prison, MacKenzie said.

“During my first sentence, I ended up in a prison wood shop where there was an old man who made clocks, and he cut wood scrollwork into the clocks,” he said. “He taught me the technique and I started teaching myself how to design things based on that technique.”

While artists often face restrictions to their creative processes, MacKenzie was challenged by the ultimate hin-

drance of being in prison, where he said he did not have reliable access to basic art supplies like paper.

However, MacKenzie said this simply prompted him to find more creative ways to realize his artwork.

“There were times when I was making my own graph paper, and there were other times when I would find an officer who was like an ally,” he said. “I would make or obtain graph paper and just tape them together into much bigger piece so that I could design a lot of the bigger work that I was doing.”

The scrolls are, in fact, only one sample of MacKenzie’s intricate storytelling.

Listeners at the Light Club Lamp Shop were treated to a few of MacKenzie’s stories Aug. 29. This included the story of his father’s annual beard-shaving and the story of his prize-fighter praying mantis, who is also featured in MacKenzie’s scrollwork.

MacKenzie said during his final year at Champlain he will pursue the challenge of writing and directing a full-length film.

To his fellow art students, MacKenzie says, “be hungry [but] also patient...and pursue many failures.”

Molly Duff is a senior anthropology and French major.

She has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2014.

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UVM radio station tunes up more DJs

by Ben Elfland

belfland@uvm.edu

This fall, UVM’s student-run radio station WRUV will be opening its doors for its biannual DJ training program.

The initial meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in Billings Lecture Hall.

DJ training offers students, faculty and Burlington residents a chance to try their hand in the recording booth and an opportunity to gain the skills they need to excel on the airwaves.

“The diversity of the station is really important to us,” Program Director Stephen Indrisano, a junior, said. “I’ve trained everyone, from your classic jocks, to music nerds, to hiphop heads, to professors; the whole range.”

There are three steps to the training process at WRUV: The first is the initial lecture, in which trainees learn about the program and the “ins” and “outs” of the station.

Soon after, trainees will visit the station for a tour and schedule times to shadow some of the station’s current DJs. Finally, prospective DJs will run six shows on their own during the station’s graveyard shifts in the early hours of the morning.

The process takes a semester to complete and the workload is “similar to taking a onecredit class,” Indrisano said.

“You’ll get as much out of it as you’re willing to put in,” he

said.

While the station does aim to equip its DJs with skills essential for any radio environment, it also seeks to expand its network of ardent and creative broadcasters.

Trainees have the opportunity to express their own unique musical interests while also exploring those of their fellow DJs. “The solo show format of the station really allows you to dive deep into your own tastes,” Indrisano said.

The station makes individuality and diversity a top priority, Indrisano said, which includes shows for local metal, spoken word and the internationally listened-to Native American program “Moccasin Tracks.”

“The whole quality thing is super subjective,” Indrisano said. “We’re more about alternative content. Sometimes people get weirded out by what they hear; there’s no accounting for taste.”

In order to maintain the station’s alternative title, DJs are barred from playing anything from the Billboard Hot 100 and are encouraged to play new music, Indrisano said, creating an environment conducive to expanding listeners’ musical knowledge and taste.

“I want to do DJ training to share my love for music and explore different kinds of genres,” sophomore Erin Johnson said.

“But moreover, I want to get more involved in the UVM and Burlington communities.”

Comedy and controversy mingle in ‘Sausage Party’ Collin kamphuis CKAMPHUIS@ UVM.EDU

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hildish humor, drugs and sex make “Sausage Party” a typical irreverent comedy.

Seth Rogen’s depraved animation, “Sausage Party,” tells the story of anthropomorphic food in a grocery store. The groceries consider shoppers as gods who will take them to the “Great Beyond,” until they learn the horrifying truth.

As the movie unfolds, Frank (Seth Rogen) seeks to unravel the mystery of what really happens in the Great Beyond, after a returned jar of mustard gives him a cryptic warning before committing suicide.

He is accompanied by his girlfriend, a shy hot dog bun named Brenda (Kristen Wiig), a bagel named Sammy (Edward Norton), a lavash — a type of flatbread — named Kareem (David Krumholtz), and a taco named Teresa (Salma Hayek).

Peppered beneath the raunchy comedy is more meaningful commentary.

Religious fervor, anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia are explored. Stereotypes are exploited for laughter, while also being challenged.

The characters’ blind faith in the “Great Beyond” and willful ignorance are a source of consternation for Frank, and the battle for shelf space leads to rivalry between bagels and lavashes.

Supported by a host of talented actors including Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, Danny McBride, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll and James Franco, Rogen delivers the raunchy, food-based comedy we didn’t know was possible.

Stereotypes are exploited for laughter, while also being challenged.

Part comedy, part horror, the movie revels in its selfaware extremes. With huge success at the box office and among critics, “Sausage Party” will be remembered as a signature Rogen film.

Colin Kamphuis is a senior political science major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2015.

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Virtue Field expanded with new renovation

By Anthony clark aclark20@uvm.edu

UVM sports fans and athletes alike have something new to look forward to when they enter Virtue Field this year.

The days of standing on the sidelines to catch a game are officially over and a new era of sitting comfortably, except after a Catamount goal, is ushered in as the University unveils the new Virtue Field stadium.

Nearing completion after construction began in mid-May, the renovated seating grandstand and press box offer a new look and service to the Catamount community.

The grandstand, which runs almost the entire length of Virtue Field, boasts 16 rows of bleachers and a seating capacity of 2,500 people.

Located at the top of the grandstand is a spacious press box that includes five new speakers, separate hospitality and media areas, along with two camera platforms for improved game play filming, courtesy of UVM Media Relations and Sports Information.

When asked about the new stadium, men’s soccer captain, senior midfielder Jackson Dayton, said he is excited to see a larger student presence at games in addition to a strong local fanbase.

Before the grandstand, “fans

Left: The old Virtue Field seating. Right: The renovated Virtue Field features more seating as well as a new press box, allowing more students and fans to attend games. PHIL CARRUTHERS & OLIVER POMAZI /The Vermont Cynic were asked to basically stand on the side of the field, which [made] it hard to see what [was] going on,” Dayton said.

“The grandstand provides a better view of the field and makes watching games far more enjoyable.”

Dayton also recognized the recruiting advantages the stadium poses, and thinks the addi-

tions will help attract better athletes to UVM for years to come, he said.

Sophomore Danny Kastner said his favorite part of the stadium is the grandstand, which helps “make the stadium look a lot bigger and better.”

As a former soccer player and current fan, Kastner said he remembers “it was always fun to

play in front of a lot of people,” and looks forward “to seeing more people come out to support all the teams.”

He said the teams using the field certainly “earned [the stadium],” with the repeated success of Catamount teams over the past few years.

While Virtue Field has come a long way in terms of improve-

ments, the work is not yet done as “Phase Three” of the project is set to begin next summer.

Phase Three aims to add a separate building to Virtue Field which will house gameday locker rooms, bathrooms and concessions, according to UVM Media Relations and Sports Information.

Player sits for anthem, exercises a basic human right john suozzo

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n athlete’s refusal to stand during the national anthem has set off a debate over the role celebrities play in social issues and activism.

Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, said he couldn’t “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”

Even though it is often seen as a formality to stand for the national anthem before a sporting event, the NFL encourages its players to stand, however, it is not required, according to a statement released by the NFL this week.

Recently, Kaepernick’s tune has changed because of the backlash he received.

He no longer sits out the national anthem; rather, he goes down on one knee.

Before the 49ers final preseason game, Kaepernick took to one knee facing the flag.

He was joined by teammate Eric Reid and Nate Boyer, a former green beret and college football player, who came out in support of Kaepernick after his original display.

Kaepernick is no longer seeking a position of disrespect

and defiance to the flag: rather, he wants to use his platform as an athlete to affect race relations in the United States.

Even if you disagree with his stance, which is common in sports culture today, Kaepernick’s actions started a meaningful conversation. It’s a huge risk to his career in the NFL. Much of the ownership in the league tries to assert a culture of avoiding public distractions to the team, especially in

pledging to sit out the anthem for his remaining preseason games.

Hours later, the pledge was rescinded after his former college coaches and agent implored him to not be a distraction to his team, according to a report from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The overwhelmingly white majority of NFL owners and general managers have an explicit way of enforcing their

The overwhelmingly white majority of NFL owners and general managers have an explicit way of enforcing their beliefs over their players: don't become a distraction to the team, or we'll make your services expendable.

the media.

Teams steer clear of players who have a history of speaking out or defiance.

Many players remain close to the vest, refusing to comment on controversial issues for fear of losing their jobs.

Take the example of Myke Tavarres, a rookie linebacker trying to make the roster for the Philadelphia Eagles.

After Kaepernick spoke on the state of race relations in the U.S., Tavarres echoed him,

beliefs over their players: don’t become a distraction to the team, or we’ll make your services expendable.

Historically, professional athletes have been scared off from public social activism.

Athletes who spoke out against the system and issues in culture could have been seen as radical.

Today’s climate of police brutality and social injustice makes activism more important than ever.

Professional athletes are

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given a platform where they can speak out on issues to improve society.

Kaepernick’s actions became controversial because we are not used to seeing this level of honesty from our athletes.

This shouldn’t be the norm; he’s risking playing time, and potentially his career, to give

voice to the issues that he thinks are being overlooked.

Shouldn’t we give Kaepernick the freedom to speak his mind?

John Suozzo is a sophomore history and political science double major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2015.

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Top: Jon Arnar Barðdal, a first-year from Iceland, goes up for the ball against a LIU Brooklyn player in the Catamounts’ game Sept. 4. Bottom: Jackson Dayton, a senior midfielder, clears the ball for Vermont in their game against LIU Brooklyn. The Catamounts would go on to win 3-0. OLIVER POMAZI/The Vermont Cynic

Men’s soccer blanks LIU to stay undefeated By locria courtright ccourtri@uvm.edu

The UVM men’s soccer team defeated Long Island University Brooklyn 3-0, boosting the Catamounts to a 4-0-0 start and winning the Peter Baldwin Memorial Classic Sept.4.

The Peter Baldwin Memorial Classic is a tournament hosted

by UVM that is in its 25th season, the second under the name.

Prior to the 2015-16 season, UVM changed the name of the tournament to honor Peter Baldwin ‘68.

Baldwin was a standout of UVM soccer, helping the team win three Yankee Conference titles from 1965-1967 and ranking second all-time in scoring, according to UVM athletics.

Baldwin later returned as an assistant coach and was inducted into the UVM Hall of Fame in 1984, according to UVM athletics.

Baldwin died Nov. 22, 2014, due to an illness, according to a Nov. 24, 2014 Burlington Free Press obituary.

This year’s Memorial Classic featured the Catamounts, Bucknell University, LIU Brooklyn and Sacred Heart University whom the Catamounts defeated 3-0 Friday night at Virtue Field on two goals by senior forward Bernard Yeboah.

During the first half, the Catamounts failed to transition from defense into attack.

Despite this, they had the

two best chances of the half, as senior forward Shane Haley just curled a shot wide of the far post in the 31st minute, and just before halftime, a corner kick by sophomore midfielder Clay Gattey was headed just wide by first-year defenseman Arnar Steinn Hansson.

The second half, however, was a different story.

In the 59th minute, Yeboah and senior forward Brian Wright broke free on a counter-attack.

Wright drifted wide, then played a pass in for Yeboah, who slotted the ball past Blackbirds goalkeeper Logan Keys to put the Catamounts up 1-0.

About 10 minutes later, the Catamounts struck again off a similar play.

Off a deflected free kick, Wright picked the ball up on the right side and sent in a ball for senior midfielder Charlie DeFeo inside the six- yard box.

DeFeo chested the ball past Keys to extend the lead to 2-0.

In the 75th minute, Wright added a goal to his two assists.

He received a long ball over the top, evaded his defender and blasted one past Keys into the side netting, putting the Catamounts ahead 3-0.

First-year goalkeeper Aron Runarsson earned his second shutout of the season, while Wright is now up to fourteen points on the season, with Yeboah now sitting on 12, according to UVM athletics.

Wright credits head coach

Jesse Cormier’s halftime speech, which Cormier described as “being honest,” with the turnaround.

“We got a pretty good talking to at half from Coach,” Wright said. “He just said we have to give more energy and they can’t control what we do.”

Cormier said he believes chemistry off the field has been key to the hot starts by Wright and Yeboah.

The two were named coMost Valuable Players of the Peter Baldwin Memorial Classic following the game.

“They’re best friends off the field, they do everything together, and they’ve done it for three years. And going into their senior year, they set some pretty lofty goals together,” Cormier said.

“They just have a feel for where the other guy’s going to end up, and the runs they’re going to make, and the timing that they need, and it’s been pretty much unstoppable so far.”

Graduate student defender Loftur Eiriksson and senior midfielder Jackson Dayton, along with Wright and Yeboah, were named to the All-Tournament team.

The Catamounts now embark on a four-match road trip, starting at Old Dominion University Friday.

They return to Virtue Field Sept. 21 when they host the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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