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FAMILY AND FRIENDS REMEMBER LATE UVM JUNIOR “There aren’t many people that make you want to be a better person, but Becca Ryan was one of them.” - sophomore Zack Graham

Lauren Schnepf Assitant News Editor Every Friday of the beginning of her first year at UVM, Rebecca Ryan went to the Waterman Green with two friends to hang out in hammocks.

She brought snacks for her new friends and would play her favorite music for the group as they laid in hammocks and got to know each other.

After a few weeks of their Friday routine, Ryan started to invite more and more people out to the green to join the group, her friend, junior Narissa McCarty, said.

“We were only a few weeks into freshman year,” McCarty said, “and she already knew so many people who were so interested in being friends with her.”

McCarty said those days with Ryan were the first times she felt like she was making friends of her own at college.

It was moments like this, when Ryan gathered new, uncertain students together to talk and relax and get to know each other, that show how special she was, McCarty said.

Ryan, a junior from Knoxville, Tennesee, died in a rock-climbing accident Sept.

16 at the Lower West Bolton Climbing Area in Bolton, Vermont, according to a Sept. 17 U.S. News article.

Ryan was studying to be an athletic trainer in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

She was a member of both the Rock Climbing Club and the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Ryan won the 2017 Spirit of Service Award from

Student Life last year, according to the UVM website.

“When I think of Becca Ryan, I think of how the sun was no match. Her radiance was untouchable, incomparable,” first-year Eloho Obaro-Best posted on Facebook Sept. 17.

UVM’s InterVarsity Fellowship hosted a vigil at the Interfaith Center Sept. 19.

People sat anywhere there was space throughout the room, including on the ground in front of a small altar filled with candles that cast gentle yellow light around the otherwise dark room.

Friends and loved ones of Ryan embraced and prayed together, sharing stories of her life and preaching the gospel that she had learned to live and love by during her time at UVM. Jessica Pafumi, Ryan’s mentor and minister at her church, recalled the time Ryan had told her that she had decided to give her life over to God. “She had gone home and watched a video about being saved, and that night she gave her life to God forever,” Pafumi said. “Jesus comes to us in the ways we need him. He came to Becca through a YouTube video.”

Laughter filled the Interfaith Center and attendees smiled.

“The funny thing was that Becca gave her life to Jesus on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day,” Pafumi said. “It seems fitting because everyone who knows Becca will agree: she was truly in love with Jesus.”

“Amen,” many people said around the room.

Junior Rebecca Ryan hiked to the summits of various mountains. Ryan was studying athletic training and was an active member of the InterVaristy Christian Fellowship and the UVM Climbing Team.

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Pafumi baptized Ryan along with several other members of the church in May 2015, her first year at UVM. On the day of the baptism, “her smile was so radiant, it lit up the entire church,” Pafumi said.

Ryan is remembered for her love of the outdoors. She spent the summer of 2017 working as an alpine guide with her sister Rachel in McCarthy, Alaska, and was an “experienced outdoor adventurer,” according to a Sept. 22 obituary in the Burlington Free Press.

Obaro-Best said Ryan was devoted to her faith and love of

Jesus.

“I know she would rather her life be celebrated than mourned,” she said.

Ryan’s mother said she was “an adventurous young woman, deeply committed to her faith,” according to a Sept. 17 email from Annie Stevens, vice provost of student affairs.

“There aren’t many people that make you want to be a better person, but Becca Ryan was one of them,” sophomore Zack Graham said. “It’s almost as if the warmth she passed on to me has stuck.”

Rebecca is survived by her

parents, Martha and Donald Ryan, and her siblings, Rachel and Roland.

The loss of a member of our community is a difficult and distressing event.

Please seek support for yourself or for someone who you may be concerned about by contacting UVM’s Counseling and Psychiatry Services at 802-656-3340 (for students) or Invest EAP at (802) 864-EAPØ (3270) or toll free at 1-866-6609533.

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Formal dedication held for central res hall Kassondra Little Senior Staff Writer Wellness Environment students and UVM faculty gathered for the Central Campus Residence Hall dedication.

The Sept. 15 ceremony was hosted by Annie Stevens, vice provost for student affairs. Residents of the building, WE staff and UVM administration, including President Tom Sullivan, attended the event.

“If there is a theme for today, since we have been planning this for about four years,” Sullivan said, “It is really about this UVM community that we all study and live in.”

The new residential building is a “wow” opportunity for UVM, he said.

The building is limited to first-year students in WE, a residential program directed

by Jim Hudziak, a Larner College of Medicine professor and chief of child psychiatry.

CCRH is located behind the Bailey/Howe Library. A bridge connects the residence hall to the first floor of the library.

The main pillars of the WE program are mindfulness, mentorship, nutrition, fitness and relationships, according to the WE website.

Hudziak and his team have created a program unlike any in the nation, ResLife director Rafael Rodriguez said.

Melissa Zelazny, the resident district manager of UVM Dining, also spoke at the dedication.

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President Tom Sullivan cuts the ribbon to officially dedicate the Central Campus Residence Hall Sept. 15. The building is home to the Wellness Environment program on campus.

PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic fers a unique experience and the Discovery Kitchen and Exploration Station further enhances the dining hall, Zelazny said.

At the Discovery Kitchen and Exploration Station, WE residents and others on campus can take a class and learn how to prepare mindful meals, according to the UVM Dining website.

Six hundred students have participated in these cooking classes already, Zelazny said.

When asked about her experience in CCRH, first-year

Celia Heath said she thinks the food in the CCRH facility is the best on campus.

Heath also said she feels blessed to live in the new hall.

She likes the gym and enjoys the location of the building, which makes for a short walk to classes, she said.

The final remarks of each speaker at the dedication were directed at the WE students sitting on the quad.

“The most important thing about your college education is engagement,” Sullivan said.

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Rodriguez also spoke to the students and welcomed them to their new home.

“I chose the word ‘home’ because it takes a community to create and sustain a home,” Rodriguez said. “You will hold the distinguished honor of being the first students to call this place home.”

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McAuley fitness center fee upsets residents Caitlin Lewis Staff Writer Emma Jarnagin Staff Writer The nearest free athletic facility is a 25-minute walk across campus for students living on Trinity campus.

This fall the Wellness Environment left Trinity campus, home of the McAuley Hall fitness center. In order to use the facilities, residents must pay a $125 membership fee.

The membership fees help pay for maintenance, staffing and both long and short-term upgrades to the fitness center, said ResLife Director Rafael Rodriguez.

Although the Patrick Gym is funded by a comprehensive fee paid by all students, the fitness centers in residential halls need additional funding from membership costs. For this reason, “there are no plans to cease membership fees,” Rodriguez said.

Sophomore Tessa Carbonneau, who started a petition to end the fee, said it’s frustrating that the University isn’t making that type of lifestyle accessible to all students when UVM places so much emphasis on health and wellness.

“Considering that we pay $52,000 a year to attend this school, I feel that we should have access to the gym,” the petition states. “It would also help take pressure off Patrick Gym and make healthy living more accessible to all students.”

At the time of print, 360 people have signed the petition. The goal is to obtain 1,000 signatures, according to the online petition on Care2.com.

UVM students work out at the McAuley fitness center on Trinity campus Sept. 20. Students must pay a $125 membership fee to use the gym, which pays for maintenance, staffing and upgrades, according to ResLife.

SABRINA HOOD/The Vermont Cynic A group of students supporting the petition is actively working on meeting with the school and Trinity staff, Carbonneau said.

Carbonneau said she has had little contact with the administration. She plans to meet with a ResLife authority figure in order to be taken seriously, she said.

Other Trinity campus residents are in favor of Carbonneau’s effort.

First-year Evelyn Leikert, who described the McAuley facilities as “super small,” said she is annoyed that “the gym [on Trinity] is right there, [but] we have free access to the Patrick Gym, which has so much more to it.”

Leikert said she questioned why such a small gym should have a membership fee, while all UVM students get free memberships to the much larger Patrick Gym facilities.

In previous semesters, the McAuley gym was used by students in the Wellness Environment whose participants received free access to the facilities.

Others feel that the UVM community should be focusing on more pressing issues. “[The gym] should just be free, but students should organize around bigger problems,” said sophomore Jordan Ciccone, a former Trinity campus

resident.

“How much change are we going to create in people’s lives by getting free gym access?”

Rather than focusing on a gym fee, students should focus their energy on solving the bigger issues on campus such as teachers’ salaries, gender inequality and racism, Ciccone said.

Arabic professor challenges dismissal from position Lilly Young Staff Writer There has been a push to re-instate the recently discontinued Arabic program.

The Arabic program, which has been present at the University since spring 2008, was discontinued May 2017 when professor Darius Jonathan was asked to resign by the College of Arts and Sciences Feb. 3, according to a letter sent to Jonathan by CAS Dean William Falls.

During the 2016-2017 academic year, Jonathan said CAS offered him a new teaching contract. He rejected the parttime position outlined in the contract.

Jonathan then received a letter in the mail stating if he did not answer the dean’s office, they would assume he was resigning, he said.

Jonathan responded, saying that he was not resigning, he said.

The dean’s office disregarded Jonathan’s response, he said.

Jonathan was asked to “pack his stuff up by 4 p.m.

May 31” and leave UVM, Jonathan said.

Jonathan has taken steps toward legal action against the University and has contacted a lawyer to represent him, he said.

Jonathan is planning on talking to the faculty union as well because he believes CAS violated his contract, he said.

He talked to Falls in person after receiving the letter, Jonathan said.

Jonathan felt the dean “told

him lies” regarding the letter, felt no respect from the College and considers the letter to be discrimination because of the way the College asked him to leave, he said.

“I can say that we had hoped Dr. Jonathan would stay on,” Falls stated in a Sept. 21 email. “Indeed, at the time, we were interested in hiring an additional instructor in Arabic to work with Dr. Jonathan to advance Arabic language teaching,” he stated in the email.

In a letter sent by Falls to Jonathan, Falls said that Jonathan called the .75 Full Time Equivalent an “injustice.”

Falls restated the .75 FTE nine-month offer and gave Jonathan until Feb. 1 to accept, according to a Jan. 27 email from Falls.

If Jonathan did not accept or did not respond, Falls would consider him to have resigned, effective May 31, according to the email.

“I have not yet received any response from you to date,” Falls stated in the email. “Your resignation is accepted and will be effected as of May 31, 2017.”

After hearing the Arabic program would be cut from the University’s curriculum, many students were upset.

Sophomore Grace Ruvelson, a former Arabic student, was shocked and disappointed with the University, she said.

SGA President Chris Petrillo is also a former student of Jonathan’s.

“Darius was phenomenal,” Petrillo stated in a Sept. 11 email.

Arabic is useful for aid work and politics especially for political science and economics majors, he stated.

SGA and students’ parents wrote individual letters to the dean explaining how important Arabic is, Jonathan said.

Ruvelson started a petition

in spring 2017 to keep the Arabic program.

The petition accumulated around 200 signatures from students taking Arabic as well as those who were not, Ruvelson said.

When Ruvelson brought up the petition to Jonathan, he told her the petition was not going to change anything, she said.

Jonathan explained to her that he had already left UVM and a petition was not going to bring him back, Ruvelson said.

As a result, Ruvelson decided to not bring the petition to CAS. She said Jonathan is currently tutoring her and two other classmates at his home.

These tutoring sessions do not count toward their degrees, she said.

UVM has never had a major or minor in Arabic, stated John Jing hua Yin, chair of the department of Asian languag-

es and literatures, in a Sept. 20 email.

In order for a subject to be offered as a major, there must be a tenure-track position as well as a lecturer, Yin stated.

But “Darius did not accept the 0.75 Full-Time Equivalent [or part-time] teaching position offered to him,” Professor Yin stated in a Sept. 8 email.

Even though there has been consistent interest in Arabic on campus, the “teaching position [is no longer] attractive enough,” Yin stated.

He “personally think[s] that the reason is related to the number of students...able and willing to go on to the second-year Arabic language learning,” he stated in the Sept.

20 email.

Jonathan has no plans to return as a professor at UVM, he said.

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Prioritizing mental health services

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Staff Editorial

aking care of your mental health is hard. Sitting in front of a professional and vulnerably telling them your worries? Not easy.

Getting mental health homework? Some people would rather have four exams in one week.

Maybe you think meditation sounds even scarier. Having to sit silently with your own thoughts?

Anxiety presents itself in many forms. Maybe you are plagued with worry and can’t fall asleep. Maybe your hands shake. Maybe you sweat profusely at the thought of speaking in class.

Depression manifests itself differently as well. Some cry a lot; others feel their body is too heavy to get out of bed.

If this sounds familiar, vividly or vaguely, you are not alone. One in four young adults ages 18 to 24 are living with a diagnosable mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Thirty-one percent of college students have felt so depressed in the past year that it was difficult to function.

More than half have felt overwhelming anxiety, according to NAMI. Healing your mind is tough; sometimes there isn’t one right way to do it.

Mental health needs to become a priority on campus.

Thankfully, UVM has some services to help.

The Center for Health and Wellbeing is a great resource

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for mental health support.

They are comprised of Student Health Services, Counseling and Psychiatry services and Living Well. They offer UVM students a wide range of services to support the mind, body and soul.

Student Health Services is staffed with physicians, nurses, PAs and dieticians. They collaborate with CAPS as well.

If you go to Student Health with a mental health concern, they will suggest you seek out CAPS. If you’re in need of mental health support, go to CAPS, located in Jacob’s House on Main Street and in Wright on Redstone campus. It might take seeing more than one therapist or psychiatrist to find your perfect fit. You may bounce around before you feel comfortable.

Living Well, in the first floor of the Davis Center, offers weekly drop-in medita-

tions, free painting classes and massages. Each Friday, Living Well brings therapy to dogs to campus.

The Catamount Recovery Program, founded in 2010, focuses on five pillars: recovery, community, academics, service and advocacy. CRP offers programming and community for those who are in recovery.

UVM offers a variety of free, accessible services for student mental health, but the University and UVM students can be doing more.

Advocate for improved mental health services. Demand the University prioritize funding for mental health programs. Catamount Recovery, which currently operates out of Living Well, deserves their own space.

Wellness Environment classes should be offered to all students; everyone deserves to learn how to take care of their brain.

CAPS shouldn’t be located so far from Central campus.

The Jacob’s House spot is hard for some students to get to, especially those without cars or bikes.

When people are seeking mental health services, we should strive to make it physically accessible.

Finally, if you need it, advocate for yourself by going to therapy. Talk to someone.

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

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.

Natural disasters: God vs. scientific proof

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bviously, natural disasters are going to kill us all. God is clearly angry at the American people for their actions (I mean, Hillary Clinton is a lizard person and she was almost the leader of the free world).

As actor Kirk Cameron said, natural disasters are “a spectacular display of God’s immense power” and are an opportunity for humans to repent.

So instead of relying on the scientific fact that greenhouse gases are accumulating in our atmosphere and causing climate change, religious conservatives are right when they say God is just pissed because we legalized gay marriage in 2015.

Listen, snowflake liberals are clearly ignorant to the signs that God is inflicting his will upon us. They even have personal beliefs to back up their claims.

So who cares that reliable journalists like Lisa Friedman and John Schwartz of the New York Times said “rising global temperatures warm the oceans, which causes more water to evaporate into the atmosphere?”

Who cares that the effects of Hurricane Harvey were worsened by the “warm water in the Gulf of Mexico that in-

BRIGITTE RIORDAN tensified the rainfall?”

Obviously, liberals are just imagining the correlation.

Ann Coulter, the conservative who never tries to push conservative ideals on Americans, said it best herself.

“I don’t think Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor,” Coulter tweeted. “But that is more credible than climate change.”

Obviously, she wasn’t trying to push her homophobic propaganda, but she did remind her followers that as our president said on Twitter,

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

Now, I know, you’re skeptical. You read that Michael Mann, Susan Hassol and Thomas Peterson of The Washington Post wrote that hurricanes get their energy from warm ocean waters, and the oceans are warming because of the human-caused buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

But again, these are just climate professionals who have

an immense number of facts to back up their claims.

That’s nothing compared to the idea that God is punishing us for being sinners.

Now that we know we shouldn’t believe everything we learn from NASA or any other credible sources you should just believe a conservative ideologist with absolutely no scientific degree in meteorology, like Ann Coulter.

Piper Townsend is a first-year political science major. She has been writing for the Cynic since 2017.

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UVM ought to treat FSL differently Letter to the Editor

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always feel a pang of anxiety when people ask me about my major.

Expressions of confusion, pity or even disgust flash across their faces when they hear the answer. When I say I’m an English major, they hear, “I’m a fool who wants to be in debt for the rest of my life.”

When I told my dentist I want to be a writer, he rolled his eyes and left the room.

People who spit on my aspirations don’t understand that my goal is not to be wealthy.

My goal is to do fulfilling work that will make me proud.

While I recognize the practical need to get a job that pays the bills, I’m not intimidated by

the prospect of having to live frugally for the rest of my life.

Humanities majors can relate to the feeling that society considers their area of study frivolous.

It’s not surprising that this stigma exists, given that engineering majors had estimated starting salaries nearly $19,000 higher than humanities majors in 2016, according to an April 2015 TIME magazine article.

It’s also not surprising that humanities majors at UVM feel inferior when they are pushed to moldy corners in crumbling buildings while science majors sit comfortably in the glittering $100 million STEM complex.

While I can’t deny that a major in science or business will likely earn a bigger pay-

check, it is wrong to conclude that pursuing a less lucrative degree is foolish and less valuable.

It’s misleading to say that humanities majors are not employable.

“English majors excel at written and oral communications, persuasion, creativity, critical thinking, research and editing—skills integral to a wide range of professions,” according to the English department website.

In other words, humanities majors are capable of finding respectable jobs.

Humanities majors aren’t stupid; they know that they’re not likely to earn millions of dollars after graduation. They do what they do out of passion.

Before you criticize a nonSTEM major for pursuing what they love, consider what life would be like if the world was populated solely by engineers, physicians and computer scientists.

We would have no one to give us the news, entertain us, translate for us or tell us about our history.

You can try to discourage us with bleak statistics, but you can’t argue that we’re wasting our time.

Jacob Potts is a sophomore English major. He has been writing for the Cynic since 2017.

Male entitlement in the academic setting

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lle Woods, Hermione Granger and Gabriella Montez are fearless female leaders of our time.

They’re all female movie characters with strong opinions and academic drive.

While their male peers are admired for these traits, these characters are seen as bossy and unlikeable because they’re female.

Though some might say “Legally Blonde,” “Harry Potter” and “High School Musical” are just movies, pop culture has always been a barometer of what is socially acceptable.

Despite the many women in high-powered positions today from Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, to actress, comedian and writer Mindy Kaling, stereotypes of intelligent women as being obnoxious and offensive to those around them persist.

This thought process is harmful, especially to younger girls.

If a girl is told that living up to her full potential makes her a social outcast, she is less likely to pursue a more challenging

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A study led by professor Daniel Z. Grunspan at the University of Washington and professor Sarah L. Eddy at the University of Texas at Austin found that in the field of biology,

males tend to underestimate the knowledge of their female peers.

When asked to name the most competent students in their classes, male students’ answers were overwhelming-

ly male.

However, female students however, named about the same number of males and females.

In reality, the students’ grasp of class concepts was fairly equal. This same study found that male and female instructors were more likely to mentor males than females and responded to males’ emails more quickly than females’.

Although male students are similarly outnumbered in more traditionally “female” fields such as nursing, they don’t face the same stigmas as women in male-dominated fields.

Men have faced discrimination in academics, but never because they are men.

It’s time to recognize that men and women are equally equipped to succeed in any field – the only differences in their brainpower are the ones that society creates.

Mills Sparkman is a first-year psychology major. She has been writing for the Cynic since 2017.

ear Editor, In response to the article “University treats FSL community unfairly,” I will limit my focus to saying that if UVM were to treat fraternity and sorority life fairly, there would be no more FSL. UVM’s Fraternity and Sorority life is a historically problematic emblem of racism at UVM, a breeding ground for hazing and sexual violence and a deadly presence in the UVM community.

UVM’s discontinued racist tradition, the Kake Walk, was an integral part of the FSL experience for 73 years. For that amount of time racism and FSL were one and the same.

No matter how hard we try and separate ourselves from our past, FSL will always represent racism at UVM. As a university that strives to create an open and welcoming environment, especially for students of color, UVM needs to rid itself of these historically racist organizations.

On the issue of hazing, it should be clear that UVM should have a zero-tolerance policy and should act accordingly with all organizations. I agree that the men’s ice hockey team should have received a stronger punishment, but the issue raised was about whether FSL groups were being treated fairly.

The answer to that is yes; FIJI should have been suspended for their acts of hazing regardless of the hockey team’s special treatment. Further, FSL organizations have had a uniquely poor history of hazing violations (three UVM students died from fraternity hazing activities in the ‘90s), meaning that this is a systemic issue requiring further intervention by the University.

But the issues do not end with hazing. There has been countless underage or over drinking incidents involving FSL groups in the recent past. I In 2011, a UVM fraternity was suspended over a survey given to members including the question, “If you could rape someone, who would it be?”

That question is a symbol of rape culture on college campuses and a prime example of how FSL has played a role in the sexual assault epidemic on many college campuses nationwide.

I have many friends and colleagues in FSL organizations here at UVM, and I can say that the community service they perform is incredible, but that does not excuse the legacy beheld—and still embodied—by some UVM FSL organizations.

That legacy is a mark on the history of UVM. With the continued issues caused by FSL groups, I say that if UVM were to treat FSL fairly, there would be no more FSL. Ryan Beattie UVM ‘19

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Roadtrips prove it can be better to “wing it” James Gaudreault My friends and I departed on a Friday afternoon in the peak of summer, leaving behind our homes and any concerns for the time of day.

2,297 miles, 35 hours and six questionably hygienic gas station bathrooms later, we arrived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I was raised in the smothering familiarity of an isolated New England town.

Although my family traveled, we limited our excursions to the east coast, exploring Maine and New Hampshire tirelessly. We were content to glean knowledge of the distant “West” through National Geographic photographs.

I think this was the root motivation for the trip – the idea of the vast unknown and the unfamiliarity that accompanies it. My friends and I had never ventured more than five or so hours from our homes.

We’d romanticized talks of “pilgrimages” out West. We’d had visions of camping under the stars, living off hand caught fish, and spending our days wrapped in the arms of mother nature.

While it wasn’t possible to fully realize our fantasies so soon, this past summer I was able to take that initial exploratory step.

For the first leg of the journey I was fortunate enough to have the help of one of those old friends, Ian Lubkin, who was on his way to New Mexico to study at Albuquerque University.

With his dowg Alta as our third amigo, we piled the sum collection of our belongings into his blue Subaru Outback and headed on our way.

On that first night, we left home with only one final destination in mind and no obligations in between.

We cruised through the first few hours comfortably, passing familiar New England territory, bubbling with a freedom-fueled energy, as if our newfound independence would sustain us for weeks to come.

Conversation and laughter flowed freely that night as our motley trio left first New Hampshire behind, then Massachusetts, before pushing deep into the winding rural roads and thickly-wooded hills of upstate New York.

We weren’t sure where we stopped for the night, and it didn’t matter much. As the gas gauge crept low and the clock edged into the early morning hours, we pulled off into an abandoned field, the swaying grass standing nearly as tall as the car itself.

We pulled a tent from my 45-pound all-inclusive hiking pack, unrolled our sleeping pads and bags and made ourselves at home with the crickets and the distant giggles of an enthusiastic creek.

We gathered a few twigs and fell into o u r

Sights from a cross-country roadtrip to New Mexico include a dog named Alta, a lounging seal and a convincing hitchhiking sign. nightly dinnertime camping routine, resulting in a “feast” of ham, potatoes and toast.

Saturday was spent in the car. We continued through New York, stopping only at Anchor Bar in Buffalo, the famed birthplace of the buffalo wing.

From there we drove nearly straight through the night, stopping every few hours to walk Alta and alternate behind the wheel.

Surprisingly, this wasn’t the unbearable gauntlet we’d

JAMES GAUDREAULT/The Vermont Cynic been bracing ourselves for. Inthough we were running on litstead we fell into a routine not tle food and even less sleep, it far from enjoyable, napping off was the excitement of the desand on, our attention shifting tination that pushed us those from music to books and inevlast few hours into the sandy itably back to the unrelenting city of Albuquerque. stretches of highway laid out For the next eight days Albefore us. buquerque was my home.

As we passed through Ohio, These were filled with desIndiana, Missouri, Kentucky ert hikes, canyons, camping, and eventually Texas, the colswimming, dog walks, sunsets, or gradually drained from the laughter and new friends, each scenery flying by. The tall of which could be a story of pines were the first to go, their own. leaving only their distant The following Tuesday I shrub-like cousins and occagathered my limited belongsional oak towering over the ings and carefully traced out livestock fields. a cardboard sign: “LA or West: Soon after the sun rose we (probably not an axe murderentered the desert zone, passer).” I planned to hitchhike, a ing through Amarillo, Texas, kind of surrender to the flow the gas prices declining with of the highway and the spirit of our latitude. the American adventure.

Before noon, New MexI spent the following sevico swallowed us, leaving en hours stranded on highonly bleak high desert plains way curbs and rest stop enstretching on for miles trances, presenting my sign uninterrupted. Aland upturned thumb, doing my best to convince passersby that the straggly 19-year-old with a ratty Hawaiian shirt and even rattier mustache would be good company for the next few

hours of their road trip.

While I did receive several ride offers to Mexico and one gentleman who attempted to recruit me to rob a bank (promising plenty of “guns and scary masks” in his truck), the kind-hearted family or truck driver never pulled to the side to take me under their wing.

As dusk settled in and my crude sign was lost to the swallowing darkness, I decided to dig into my shallow bank account to buy a one-way Greyhound Bus ticket to Los Angeles.

The Albuquerque bus station was an adventure of its own. My bus left 2 a.m., and I’d arrived at the station 5 hours prior.

We finally boarded, the veteran driver grudgingly checking each ticket as if he had a personal vendetta against each and every paying customer.

The following 17 and a half hours were some of the most grueling of the trip.

We drove through a sleepless night, the air conditioning struggling as if clogged by the tangible stench hanging in the stagnant air. The sun rose with the temperature, the bus reading an exterior temp of 110 degrees, the interior not much cooler.

Brief desert stops interrupted the rest of the journey, each mile adding another drop of sweat to my shirt.

When we eventually rolled into the Los Angeles station, the first half of my journey ended.

From here I jumped to San Francisco, Northern California, Chicago and finally back home, colorful stories to be saved for another day.

I learned, if nothing else, that “winging it” works out just fine.

Sometimes, the lack of planning produces the best memories and most powerful experiences, even if your idea of what you’re winging isn’t fully articulated at the onset.

James Gaudreault is a firstyear engineering major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2017.

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Readers and writers gather for local festival

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Bridget Higdon

s an English major, I am always looking for ways to further indulge my love of reading and writing.

I found such indulgence at the 13th annual Burlington Book Festival.

This festival was a celebration of all things literary, bringing writers and readers together.

It washeld at several locations downtown Sept. 15-17. It was The Burlington City Arts Center on Church Street, typically a traditional gallery space, showcased a different kind of artist Saturday: the writer.

I made my first stop of the day on the second floor Roth Gallery, where award-winning poet and musician J. Mae Barizo read a sampling of her work.

A small audience was gathered on metal folding chairs.

A recipient of fellowships and awards from Bennington College, Barizo has a special place for Vermont in her heart, she said.

Most of the poems Barizo read were from her 2015 book “The Cumulus Effect.”

“The book acts as an intersection between geography and memory,” she said. “I am fascinated by places that have been marked by history.”

Barizo read in a soft voice, almost a whisper. Her simple black dress and minimal jew-

elry allowed her poetry to take center stage.

Barizo’s has received critical acclaim for more than just her poetry. Her talent as a pianist and violinist has allowed her to perform with Jay-Z, Beyonce and Bon Iver, according to her website.

Next, I made my way up to the fourth floor. In the Vermont Metro Gallery, Angela Palm was in the midst of reading from her memoir, “Riverine.”

“There was certainly a blood-on-the-page aspect to writing this book,” Palm said, because the memoir forced her to deal with painful events from her childhood.

The book took three years to write and another year to edit, she said.

Although she grew up in Indiana, Palm now lives in Burlington. “Reading here at the festival was a great homecoming,” she said. “This is a comfortable, safe space to be.”

Back on the ground floor of the BCA Center, the authors’ books were available for purchase.

Seated next to the makeshift bookstore, two individuals who were happily chatting caught my attention.

They were UVM political science professor Garrison Nelson and Amy Braun, a recent graduate from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Both were BBF volunteers.

Nelson said he would be

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David Lehman signs copies of his book Sept. 15. The writer performed at the annual Burlington Book Festival at Burlington City Arts. presenting his latest publication, “John William McCormack: A Political Biography” later in the day Saturday.

“Nothing is more solitary than writing,” he said. “Writers write all day and then all they want to do is hang out with people, which is why the book festival is so perfect.”

The Burlington Book Festival was full of writers sharing stories and readers who earnestly soaked up every word.

“Through writing, the poets and writers were able to articulate common struggles and make them relatable for readers from all different walks of life,” sophomore Winter Seyfer

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The Burlington Book Festival was for me an unexpected gem – sparkling with meaningful encounters and worthwhile listening.

Bridget Higdon is a sophomore English major who started at the Cynic in fall 2016.

‘It’ balances scares and laughs Dahlia Maleh

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have seen my fair share of scary movies and I can cofidently say the 2017 movie adaption of Stephen King’s novel “It” has something beyond the typical jump scares.

The movie follows a hilarious group of boys in Derry, Maine, who refer to themselves as the losers club.

They try to find who, or what, is kidnapping their classmates and siblings.

Meanwhile, Pennywise, the dancing clown, is in the same town with one mission and one mission only: to get as many children as he can to come and “float” in the town’s sewer system with him as corpses.

In tense moments, witty banter among the boys keeps the mood light. I found myself laughing more during the movie than hiding under my sweatshirt.

A favorite line from Richie Tozier, played by “Stranger Things” actor Finn Wolfhard, was, “Do you need to be a virgin to see this f------ clown?”

The audience couldn’t contain their laughter.

I had walked into the theater with one friend, but by the end of the movie it felt as though I went with the entire audience.

In unison, we all laughed, hid behind one another and yelled advice at the characters.

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KATI KIRSCH movie, but I highly encourage them to put their fears aside and see this film.

For those who have not seen the original 1990 version of the film or read the 1,138 book, do not fret. The film does a great job of explaining why there is a scary clown luring children down a gutter.

“It” is more than a scary movie – it’s an adaption of a

renowned novel that stays true to the author’s vision.

Whether it be the superb acting, dirty jokes or the cinematography, the film gave the audience the rare gift of a good scary movie.

Dahlia Maleh is a first-year public communication major who started at the Cynic in fall of 2017.

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A piece from “The Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic” and a painting of Herbert Barnett’s will be featured as a part of the Fleming Museum’s changing exhibits. The exhibits will open Sept. 26 and run through Dec. 15-16, respectively.

Photos courtesy of the Fleming Museum.

Museum brings on two new exhibits for fall Brigitte Riordan Staff Writer

The Fleming Museum of Art will present two new exhibitions, one local and one from the other side of the world.

“Spirited Things: Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic,” will be an exhibition of “sacred objects from the Yoruba religion of West Africa, as well as Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santeria, Brazilian Candomble and Caribbean Spiritism,” according to the Fleming’s website.

Perhaps the most talked about event of the season, according to the Fleming website,

is “a sacred festival led by Haitian priestess Manmi Maude in honor of the gods of Vodou,” which will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct.12 at the Fleming Museum.

Opening along with “Spirited Things” is an exhibition of work by painter Herbert Barnett titled “Vermont Life and Landscape, 1940-1948,” the website stated.

Both exhibitions will open Sept. 26, and the Fall Opening Reception will be held from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Sept. 28 in the Marble Court of the Fleming.

“Spirited Things” is unlike anything done before in

the area, curator Andrea Rosen said.

“Spirited Things” is years in the making. Several events and programs will accompany the exhibition in a collaborative effort by the UVM religion department and the Fleming Museum.

“We’re coming at it both from this perspective of the scholarly study of religions by academics but also the practice of religions,” Rosen said.

“Spirited Things” features colorful objects of religious and spiritual significance. For the duration of the exhibit, the Fleming will simultaneously

serve as a museum and an active spiritual sight, Rosen said.

These objects have been brought together and arranged in a way that is stunning to look at and raises questions of value and spirituality across cultures, she said.

“We are bringing in these scholars from academia, but we’re also bringing in practitioners, we’re bringing in Santeria and Vodou priests and priestesses,” Rosen said. “The fact that we’re blending both is a little groundbreaking.”

A talk with J. Lorand Matory, curatorial consultant to “Spirited Things,” will mark

the beginning of a speaker series titled Religious Objects and Embodied Practices in the Black Atlantic, hosted by the religion department.

The talk will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 26 in the Livak Ballroom of the Davis Center.

The events and programs this fall present “the opportunity to learn more about religions like Haitian Vodou or Cuban Santeria that we hear about but have a lot of misconceptions about,” Rosen said.

For more information, visit the museum’s website.

Students to write and perform a play in a single day Addie Beach Senior Staff Writer Writing a play in 24 hours is no easy task. The participants in this year’s Red Eye Drama festival, however, will attempt to do just that.

The event will challenge small groups to write, direct and rehearse a 10-minute play, known as a “Red Eye 10,” all in just one day.

UVM will be joining schools and theaters across the nation in putting on the Red Eye 10s Sept. 29.

The goal of the festival is to celebrate new theater, said junior Jimmy Hayden, one of the University Players organizing the show.

“It’s about coming together and creating original ideas,” Hayden said.

While UVM has a large theater community, opportunities for showcasing student-written work are limited, Hayden said. He thinks Red Eye 10s could help with that.

According to the Red Eye website, the festival usually releases six pre-written plays for participants to choose from.

However, because UVM is not an official host, the students can create the plays from scratch during the event,

Hayden said.

This will be just one of the practical challenges built into the event that makes it unique and unpredictable.

“We can provide structure,” Hayden said, “but until the 24 hours starts, we have no idea what it’s going to look like.”

The students won’t know who is participating or the play’s content until the festival begins, he said.

“The struggle is the not knowing,” Hayden said, “but that’s part of the fun.”

At the heart of this fun is the cooperative nature of the Red Eye 10s, which works as a “place to learn collaboratively and gain from the experiences of others,” he said.

Junior Natalia Bastante, a theater and business double major, also pointed to teamwork as an essential part of the event, along with “creativity, focus and endurance.”

While they are not participating in the event, they are excited to see the plays produced, they said.

“Red Eye Festival is a great opportunity for artists of every kind to come together and create something wild and brilliant,” Basante said.

Interested participants are instructed to arrive at the Ira

Members of the University Players present an improv show in Brennan’s Aug. 28. The Players will be hosting the Red Eye festival, where groups will have 24 hours to write, memorize and perform a play.

Allen Chapel at 6 p.m. Friday Sept. 29, where they will be sorted into groups.

Photo courtesy of the University Players.

The 24 hours begin at 7 when the period ends at 7 p.m. p.m. and the plays will be pubthe next day. licly performed in the Chapel

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Music builds and breaks female stereotypes Spare Rib

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Autumn Lee

even years old, headphones blasting, “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” I was thinking to myself I could be the next big pop star.

As I sang out loud, my dad turned to my mom, upset I was listening to music he deemed “too sexy” and disrespectful to women. Next thing I knew, Britney Spears was banned, and my favorite CD was hidden in the depths of our home.

There’s an underlying social expectation about the type of music girls should be listening to.

Basic girls listen to Taylor Swift, theater girls listen to “Hamilton” and hipster girls listen to Mac DeMarco. Society teaches us to group one another into over-simplified categories.

This applies to men, too, but it’s somehow different for women.

New research finds that before age 10, girls entrench stereotypes and build their social status around the way others see their bodies, according to a September 2017 USA Today article.

The category she falls under determines a girl’s worth.

Pop culture seems to deem girls who listen to T-Swift as melodramatic; they stay up all night crying over exes.

Assumptions like this are forced on women because of music, even if they’re not always true.

I never wanted that weak and vulnerable image to be applied to me, so I avoided pop music with fervency.

I seek feminist music, like Bikini Kill or Pussy Riot.

From artists like these grew

Sophomore Libby Camp practices bass guitar Sept. 19 in her room in Living and Learning. The type of music a girl listens to often portrays what others think of her.

AUTUMN LEE/The Vermont Cynic my dream of being in an allperfect example. She laments swoops in and teaches them Support female artists. girl punk band. I wanted the the loss of her man, but all that their worth is based on Support young girls who want glam of tattoos, crazy hair and is solved with a ring. Oh-sotheir sexuality. to pursue music. screaming into a mic about dreamy and oh-so-predictRecently, I’ve noticed a Most importantly, don’t destroying the patriarchy. able. trend of more female powreduce girls into categories for Unfortunately, the reality of Why does the music induser-positive music. foolish things like music taste. pop music is often completely try continue to create music Artists like Beyonce and “Trying to look fuckable different. geared toward women that is Lady Gaga title themselves [will not help]. Remember Instead of helping to break inherently sexual? feminists and try to make muyou’re in a rock and roll band,” down stereotypes, pop music Sex sells – it appeals to the sic that empowers women. said Chrissie Hynde, member reinforces the confining catemasses.

It would be nice to simply of the band The Pretenders. gories women are so carelessly Girls wear mini skirts to smash the patriarchy over“It’s not ‘f--- me;’ it’s ‘f--- you!’” placed in, especially since it’s look like Ariana Grande. They night, but this isn’t realistic. created for mass appeal. fawn over shirtless Harry It’s time to do something, In pop you’ll find the clasStyles posters in their bedthough, because I am so over Autumn Lee is a sophomore sic love or redemption story rooms. all the girl degradation. We’re art education major who startfrom—you guessed it—a man.

Teen girls are in a sensitive not objects of sappy ballads ed writing for the Cynic in Fall T-Swift’s “Love Story” is a period of change when media and bass-heavy club songs.

2017.

Student clubs help bridge culture gap among years Katie Brobst Assistant Life Editor College is about meeting all types of people, yet many at UVM have seen a gap among students of different academic years.

Academic distance between students of different ages is created by a difference in their classes, but this separation goes beyond the classroom.

“I don’t know any firstyears,” senior Zach White said.

“I don’t avoid them, I’m just not in any classes with them.”

Sophomore Emma Bielicki also encountered the social gap, she said.

“Especially being a transfer student, finding that way to connect with upperclassmen is really difficult,” Bielicki said Locality could be the cause.

While first-years are required to live in residential halls, many juniors and seniors choose to rent somewhere off campus.

First-year Thaya Zalewski, who lives in the Living/Learning Center, said she interacts with more new students than upperclassmen.

“We’re trying to find friends among the people we see, and

the majority of [them] are firstyears,” Zalewski said.

Senior Jessie Rauseo, who lives off campus, said she has had a similar experience.

“I love talking to new students but don’t have the opportunity very often,” Rauseo said. “I think that stems from physical distance. First-years are on campus, but if I’m not at class or the library, I’m at work or my apartment.”

Although juniors and seniors are being offered on-campus housing again, anthropology professor Luis Vivanco said he has noticed a new social norm.

“There are there certain policies that divide you into units and groups, and I think there’s that housing thing,” Vivanco said. “This is beyond policy; now there is a cultural expectation to move off campus.”

The split between students is caused both by housing and a lack of school spirit, he said.

“I don’t see strong identification with classes here,” Vivanco said, “but I do see that [upperclassmen] exert certain kinds of pressures on younger students to get them to conform to the student culture.”

There is a “coolness” as-

ERIN BUNDOCK sociated with apathy toward the institution and new students pick up on this after a few weeks of observing upperclassmen, he said.

The student culture encourages one to identify more with clubs, sports and other groups than one’s class year, Vivanco said.

Identification with small-

er groups could help close the gap between new students and upperclassmen.

Dave Landay ‘16 said he narrowly avoided the social gap when he attended UVM as an undergrad.

“I experienced it at first, but then I got into club sports,” Landay said. “We hung out with upperclassmen because

we were all teammates, so that made me more comfortable around older people.”

Though a contrast in residential locations causes class separation, getting involved in multi-age clubs, sports and groups can close the gap, Vivanco said.

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Women’s hockey prepares for a new season Locria Courtright Assistant Sports Editor As the calendar nears the end of September, the women’s hockey season draws closer.

The Catamounts are coming off a season in which they finished with a record of 15-149, including a victory over Providence College in the Hockey East quarterfinals.

They fell 3-2 in double overtime to eventual Hockey East champions Boston College in the semifinal.

With a number of key players returning– including the team’s three top scorers sophomore forward Eve-Audrey Picard, junior forward Alyssa Gorecki and junior forward Saana Valkama– UVM is hoping to build momentum off last season’s successes.

“We’re trying to push forward from last year,” senior defender Taylor Willard said.

“We developed and progressed throughout the season and ended on a good note, and we want to keep that going.”

With the new season comes change. Seven players graduated from last season’s team.

In their place are seven first-years, as well as junior transfer defender Taylor Flaherty. Flaherty transferred to UVM after the University of North Dakota’s women’s hockey program was cut.

Such change can lead to some early-on chemistry issues as new players try to click with the old, but they seem to

have adapted in practice, said head coach Jim Plumer.

“It’s been a remarkably fast transition for the new players,” Plumer said. “Our existing players have done a fantastic job taking those kids under their wing.”

The new players will provide new options for the team, he said.

“The five first-year forwards are all kids with different skill sets than the people we graduated,” Plumer said. “We’re pleased that we may have different line combinations that we can look at over the course of the year.”

In addition to the new players, the team also added two new assistant coaches, Jessica Koizumi and Josh Liegl.

“It’s been relatively seamless in terms of our ability to work and their ability to coach Division I hockey,” Plumer said.

The team will have to replace Hockey East All-Star goaltender Madison Litchfield, who posted a .928 save percentage last season.

There are two returning goalies: junior goaltender Melissa Black, who played in 14 games last year for the Catamounts, and sophomore goaltender Sydney Scobee, who played in three. They’re joined by first-year goaltender Sierra Natzke.

The team’s schedule shapes up to be a challenge. Five of the teams named in U.S. College Hockey Online’s preseason top

The women’s hockey team celebrates together after a goal against Boston College Jan. 20. The team’s first regular season game will be against Providence Oct. 1.

PHIL CARRUTHERS/The Vermont Cynic 10 are on UVM’s schedule, including the reigning national champion Clarkson University.

They could also play a sixth, No. 5 University of Minnesota Duluth, at the Windjammer Classic in November.

Willard says the team relishes the challenges.

“We love playing against those top teams and being able to really prove ourselves,”

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Willard said. “Especially being one of the newer teams in the conference with people still seeing us as the underdogs.”

Plumer believes these games give the side an opportunity to measure themselves against the best of the best.

“I think we can compete with these teams and skate with these teams,” he said.

It is a great opportunity

for the Cats to measure themselves against these teams, Plumer said.

UVM will play two preseason games at Gutterson Fieldhouse - Sept. 24 against the Universite de Montreal and Sept. 29 against McGill University. They open the regular season Oct. 1 with a league game against Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island.

Field hockey falls 3-4 against Holy Cross team Julia Higa Staff Writer The field hockey team suffered a 1-0 home loss against the College of the Holy Cross Crusaders.

The Tuesday afternoon loss took the team to a 3-4 record for the season.

“We knew it was going to be a tough match today,” head coach Kate Pfeifer said.

The only goal of the game was scored within the first six minutes by Holy Cross forward Maureen Connolly. In total, Holy Cross had 13 shots, six on goal, showing the strength of UVM’s defense.

Junior forwards Landon Warren and Jackie Gillen gave Holy Cross’s defense a tough fight, each putting up three shots.

Despite a slow first half, the Cats managed to keep Holy Cross away from the goal for the rest of the game.

“I think we came out a bit hesitant and a bit soft in the first half,” Pfeifer said.

After a 10-minute break for halftime, the Catamounts came out faster and stronger.

They pulled out 14 shots compared to their four shots in the first period.

With more shots but no goals scored by either team, Pfeifer called for a quick timeout with 12 minutes left in the second half.

First-year midfielder Claudia Cotter moves the ball upfield against Holy Cross Sept. 19.

Ryan Kiel-Zabel/The Vermont Cynic “We talked about making sure that we stuck to the way we play, which is a possessive game, and one that is sort of relentless defending until we get possession,” Pfeifer said.

In the last five minutes of the game, Pfeifer pulled out senior goalkeeper Lena Benwood to add an extra player on the field. This gave the Catamounts an advantage of an even stronger offense, but they ran out of time.

It’s really important that we play to win, Pfeifer said.

Field hockey will travel to New Hampshire for their America East opener Sept. 29 before hosting No. 20 ranked University at Albany Oct. 1.

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