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Meatless Monday

Burlington Bagels

The Green Mountain Veggies have started an initiative to hold Meatless Mondays for dinner in the dining hall.

Cynic columnist Cyrus Oswald embarks on a journey to find the best bagel in town.

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SGA takes steps to end food insecurity ■ Recent studies show that one in four undergraduate UVM students have suffered from food insecurity. Campus groups are taking action to stop this.

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To help fix food insecurity at UVM, a food pantry and meal swipe bank program will soon come to campus.

Two surveys given to the UVM community found that 17 to 25 percent of undergraduate students at UVM don’t have access to enough food.

SGA President Ethan Foley, a junior, has been working on a food pantry and thrift shop for undergraduate students, which he plans to name Rally Cat’s Closet and Cafe.

The UVM food insecurity working group is looking to create a bank of extra meal swipes that can be passed along to other students.

“The surveys were done to better understand the problem,” said Assistant Professor Meredith Niles, co-chair of the working group. “I’m wanting to really understand what was going on at UVM.” The working group has given some resources to help the pantry project, but has focused on

their meal swipe plan, said Nicole Rohrig, a UVM dietician and the other co-chair of the working group.

“What the working group really decided to tackle this semester was getting the Swipe Out Hunger program up and running,” Rohrig said.

Swipe Out Hunger is a national program that collects extra meal swipes into a bank that students who are in need can draw from, Rohrig said.

Sophomore Clare Abbatiello said that she’s concerned about living off campus because of rising living costs in Burlington.

“It’ll be hard. The prices are really high here,” she said. “I have a friend who lives off campus and he told me sometimes he only eats popcorn.”

Junior Emily Downs sometimes has a hard time eating due to her schedule and how expensive living off campus in Burlington is, she said.

The results of the first survey concerned Foley, who felt like he really needed to do something to address this student issue, he said.

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Sophomore Emilie Begin looks through shirts at the Vermont Student Environmental Program’s thrift shop initiative called Cat’s Closet, located in the Rosa Parks Room in the Davis Center.

A second survey was administered to find more specific information about the groups most impacted by food insecurity in the UVM community, Rohrig said.

“At UVM specifically, a survey went out last year in 2017 that says that over 25 percent of undergraduate students who are not on a meal plan have experienced food insecurity,” Foley said.”

The name of the project in-

corporates the Vermont Student Environmental Program’s current thrift shop initiative, called Cat’s Closet, and works to break the stigma around food pantries, Foley said.

“We’re not going to be formally referring to it as a ‘food pantry because we’re trying to destigmatize the process of going to a food pantry as a college student,” Foley said. “We want to make sure that all the students who actually need to uti-

lize the project are able to and feel comfortable doing so.”

VSTEP is excited to work with SGA on this project and hopes it will help with food insecurity, VSTEP President Abby Fuirst, a junior, said.

“I’m excited about having a shared space somewhere on campus,” she said. “I’m hoping that it’ll help with food insecurity, that people feel more comfortable getting food if they need it.”

First-year programmed housing plan moves forward Lilly Young ehyoung@uvm.edu

There will be 100 percent participation in learning communities by first-years by fall 2019.

Next school year, all firstyear housing options will be in learning communities. Residential Life Director Rafael Rodriguez said that this has been a major goal for Reslife for the past three years.

Sophomores will still be able to choose traditional housing.

There will be no new learning communities, just an expansion of the communities already on campus, like Outdoor Experience and the Wellness Environment, Rodriguez said.

“I think it is critically important to their success. We are seeing the data around reten-

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The Central Campus Residence Hall is home to the Wellness Environment. All first-year housing options will be in learning communities next school year, leading to 100 percent participation in learning communities by first-years by next year. tion and academic success,” Rodriguez said. “We see students who are returning talking about the impact learning communi-

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ties had on their decision to return to UVM.” Three years ago, ResLife implemented a plan that would

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lead to 100 percent participation by 2019, Rodriguez said.

As of this school year, there is 83 percent participation by first-years in learning communities.

The funding for 100 percent participation has been available since UVM launched learning communities three years ago. Now, the amount of students will meet the amount of resources already put in place, Rodriguez said.

Students and parents have been asking for the expansion of learning communities, he said.

Sophomore Kayley Noterman is in the Outdoor Experience program at UVM. “I’ve found a lot of people have avoided doing unprogrammed housing because that had put them on Trinity, and putting programs [on Trinity] might have

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the same problem,” she said.

Sophomore Lynnsey Trabka is also a member of the Outdoor Experience.

“I think it’s intended to be a good thing, so that first-years can try to find a pace they fit in at UVM but I think it also puts some unnecessary stress on them,” she said.

Trabka believes that having 100 percent participation is good for students who know what they want to do, but it’s intimidating for those who are unsure.

SGA President Ethan Foley, a junior, said he lived in programmed housing for two years.

“I personally think 100 percent programmed housing will be good for students,” he said.

The more students who have access to learning communities, the better, Rodriguez said.

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Carbon tax talk on campus Mark Paul, an associate professor at the New College of Florida, came to UVM to explain his research on how a carbon tax could be a solution for climate change.

Culture

Review: Bohemian Rhapsody Though the film favors artistic choices over real facts, it will draw any viewer in and have them singing “We are The Champions” as they exit the theater.

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Four teams of UVM students competed Nov. 13 for the chance to win money to help fund their businesses.

Senior Max Muller and junior Grayson Glosser won with their business’ redesign of the hospital gown, which they called the Recovery Robe.

Their team designed the gown after they heard complaints about current hospital gowns from patients and caregivers, which included having to remove IVs in order to change the gown and removing the entire gown when doing examinations, Muller said.

“It’s not dignified,” he said.

“You’re exposed. Your butt’s flapping in the breeze.”

The UVM Entrepreneurship Club held its qualifying competition to pick UVM’s representative to LaunchVT Collegiate — the winner of which would go on to compete in the final LaunchVT competition.

LaunchVT is a statewide business pitch competition which Vermont entrepreneurs enter for the chance to receive financial support for their business, Entrepreneurship Club President Cole Green, a junior, said.

Muller and Gossler are members of Design for America, a national organization that encourages students to find creative solutions to common problems, Muller said.

Their team has been entering pitch competitions like LaunchVT as a way to fund the Recovery Robes project and make a usable model, Gossler

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Nick Grimely, co founder of LaunchVT, consults his other judges during LaunchVT Collegiate pitch competition. Senior Max Muller and junior Grayson Glosser won with their business’ redesign of the hospital gown, which they called the Recovery Robe. said.

The other pitched businesses covered a variety of products and services, from a device that charges small electronics to a company that specializes in identifying and removing invasive plant species.

LaunchVT Collegiate was created to make it easier for college students to enter the competition and is only open to representatives chosen by colleges and universities in Vermont, Green said.

“Students are largely unsuccessful in competing against adults, so LaunchVT Collegiate is a vehicle for which college students can compete with these seasoned professionals,”

he said.

LaunchVT Collegiate doesn’t happen until February, but the November qualifying competition was intended to give the winning team the opportunity to perfect and prepare their pitch for the collegiate round, Green said.

Pitch competitions like LaunchVT are perfect for students, because it allows them to come up with business ideas and practice making pitches, said LaunchVT co-founder Nick Grimley, a competition judge.

Grimley is the director of entrepreneurship and tech commercialization for the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development.

One of the purposes of LaunchVT is to find a way to encourage people to start businesses in Vermont and combat the number of people moving out of the state, Grimley said.

“Growing up in Vermont, I saw a lot of young folk leave the state to find opportunities elsewhere,” he said. “If we had more businesses [in Vermont], maybe we’d have more people staying in the state.”

Vermont’s population has been decreasing at a rate of 0.3 percent a year since 2010 — roughly 2,000 people per year, according to the U.S. Census.

The national population has grown by 5.3 percent, according to the Census.

Dining hall takes part in Meatless Monday initiative Lee Hughes ehughes7@uvm.edu

Asking students what their major is Deciding on a major is one of the most important steps of someone’s college career.

Multimedia reporter Anna Brown asked students what their major was and why.

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Local Mysteries: Bear Brook murders Four women were found murdered at Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire between 1985 and 2000.

In 2017, police may have cracked this cold case.

Redstone Dining Hall served dinner as usual Nov. 12, but with one significant change: there was no meat.

Green Mountain Veggies, a UVM club promoting eco-consciousness, is enacting its vision for Meatless Mondays on a small scale Nov. 12 and 26 as well as Dec. 3 and 10, said sophomore Lissy Kelly, dining adviser for GMV. They are working in conjunction with UVM Dining, Sodexo, Eco Reps and the Real Food Challenge. Eco Reps promotes sustainability and the Real Food Challenge works to add local, ecologically sound, humane and fair food to campus, Kelly said.

“Considering how energy-intensive and resource-intensive producing meat is, that reduction would have a huge impact over time on how many resources we use as a campus,” she said.

GMV’s goal is for no meat to be served at any of the dining halls for all meals every

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Sophomore Margaret Thomson tables outside of Central Campus Dining Hall for Meatless Mondays April 25, 2017. Green Mountain Veggies is starting Meatless Mondays at UVM dining halls on a small scale Nov. 12 and 26 as well as Dec. 3 and 10.

Monday, in order to reduce the University’s ecological footprint, since meat production uses more resources and energy than plant-based meals do, Kelly said.

As of now, the only meatless meal being served at any dining hall is dinner at the Redstone Dining Hall, which served oy hot dogs, meatless pizzas and veggie burgers instead of its

usual meat options.

Meat accounts for 47.6 percent of CO2 emissions from food, according to the University of Michigan’s Center for Sustainable Systems. This is because meat is less efficient at transmitting energy, increasing the amount of CO2 per calorie, the website states.

GMV President Alex Bonfiglio, a junior, said that she be-

gan working toward Meatless Mondays her first year at UVM. After having gotten roughly 1,500 signatures on GMV’s petition in support of implementing Meatless Mondays, this plan is in its trial phase, she said.

Sophomore Theresa Henckel, a vegetarian, said that although she has heard people complain that they don’t know what to eat if there’s no meat in the dining hall, she likes the idea and hopes it will open others up to the possibility of being vegan or vegetarian.

“There can be a lot of negative preconceived notions [about difficulties eating while being vegan or vegetarian], so I feel like it’s maybe helping people open up their minds,” she said.

It also makes it easy for her to find food to eat in a dining hall, she said.

Marissa Watson, UVM Dining sustainability manager, said she was visiting the dining hall Nov. 12 in support of students.

“This is what the student body wants,” Watson said.

“We’re responding to that in support.”

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ast Wednesday, the same day the death toll from wildfires in California reached 83 people with hundreds more missing, President Donald Trump asked on Twitter, “Whatever happened to Global Warming?”

The president’s tweet, based on an unusually cold forecast, contradicts not only the most popular understandings of climate change, but it also dismisses the findings of a recent government report on the issue.

The report is created every few years and has linked the type of extreme weather responsible for the wildfires, particularly those which started in Northern California, to global warming, according to a Nov. 24 Associated Press article.

The California wildfires are only the most recent manifestations of climate change.

Hurricanes, droughts and cold fronts, such as the one Trump referred to in his tweet, have increasingly affected people across the globe, making the trend more difficult to ignore each year.

President Trump’s mishandeling of climate change can no longer be attributed to ignorance. Through this report, the government has acknowledged the evidence for global warming’s detrimental impact on public health, safety, access to water, the economy and more.

For the executive branch to ignore research-backed, gov-

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ernment-supported proof that the United States is in danger is irresponsible at best.The government is morally compelled to take action based on its own findings.

But the government has shown that it unlikely to follow through; it was over a year ago when President Trump announced the United States would be withdraw from the Paris climate accord, an international agreement meant to fight global warming, according to a June 2017 New York Times article.

In 2009, a legal decision was made that planet-warming pollution is harmful to human health and must be reduced by government actions, according to a Nov. 25 New York Times article.

We must hold the government accountable and make our voices heard to ensure that it uses its power in the interest of the people it represents, not the minority of business leaders who favor profits over the interests of the nation, the world and the future.

If the President continues

to ignore science in favor of ideology, we will never be able to make progress as a nation.

To ignore knowledge as it reveals itself is not only naive, it is immoral.

Staff editorials officially reflect the views of the Vermont Cynic.

Signed opinion pieces and columns do not necessarily do so.

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he Latinx community is one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups in America, according to a September 2017 Pew Research Center article.

But they have issues concerning who is actually a part of their group.

Being considered “not Latinx enough” can come from factors like religion and food preferences.

Other factors are more permanent, like being Afro-Latinx or white-passing, which is when someone can be mistaken as white, according to a December 2017 article from Fem magazine, UCLA's Latin American feminist magazine.

Not knowing Spanish is also a factor. This causes harmful confusion to those “not Latinx enough.”

This image of what Latinx is supposed to be also creates stereotypes outside the community. TV shows such as “Modern Family” and “That '70s Show”

portray Latinx characters as sexualized immigrants with accents, dark hair and “caramel” skin.

The community upholds this image, excluding those who are "different.” By doing this, the Latinx people allow others to stereotype them.

Actress Gina Rodriguez from TV show “Jane the Virgin” was told she’s not Latina enough after her Spanish was criticized, according to an October 2015 HuffPost Live interview.

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Rodriguez explained that there are many countries in the Latinx community that are different, so it’s unfair to put Latinx people in a box since we’re raised different ways and look different.

There are 33 countries and dependencies in Latin America, according to a November 2017 World Population Review report. Each country has different cultures, food and languages.

With so many people identifying as Latinx, it's hard to

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believe that we would all be the same. When you tell someone they're not “Latinx enough,” you’re disregarding their family, voice, experiences and the freedom to identify with their culture.

An August 2015 article from Everyday Feminism captured this identity crisis. Carmen Rose, the Puerto Rican and Italian author, wrote how they’re confused about their identity and being questioned makes their confusion even worse.

Being from mixed descent, I related to this since I can’t speak Spanish and I'm not tan.

Instead of alienating each other, we need to stick together, especially in a terrifying political climate where the president is deporting many in our community.

Whether you can’t dance or speak Spanish or are “too black or white” to be Latinx, you are Latinx. Nothing can erase your ancestry and nobody, not even your community, can tell you how to define yourself.

Gabby Felitto is a first-year Communication Sciences and Disorders major.

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Travel must be simplified for students Mills Sparkman msparkma@uvm. edu

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e’ve all been there: break rolls around and after trying to ride with a friend or join a carpool, you give up and buy a bus ticket.

Shivering in the Downtown Transit Center, afraid to get out of line because you might lose your spot, you ponder the choices you have to get home.

Surely there’s a better way.

Although direct public transportation to larger cities such as Boston and New York City is plentiful, there should be an expansion to smaller cities, such as Providence, Rhode Island, and Paterson, New Jersey.

Expansion would increase the use of direct public transportation in general, reduce the carbon emissions of private transportation and provide students with a safe, easy way to get home.

Many UVM students live in smaller cities or towns.

It seems like every time you meet someone new, they’re from “outside of Boston,” and without a car, they have to use two or three different forms of transport to get home.

My routine has been the Megabus from Burlington to Boston, the train on the Providence/Stoughton line and finally either the Rhode Island state bus system or a ride from

HOLLY COUGHLAN family or friends.

Many students have more difficult trips. I have friends from Illinois and Virginia who fly home, which is more costly and leaves less room for mistakes.

If you miss your flight out of Burlington, or miss a connecting flight, it’s more of a hassle than waiting for the next bus or train.

Burlington International Airport may have a Skinny Pancake, but it doesn’t have a huge variety of flight

destinations. According to their website, they recently added flights to New York City, Chicago and Orlando, Florida.

While this expansion is helpful, it still caters primarily to city students.

In recent years, there have been efforts to correct this problem.

The popular ride-sharing app Wheeli lets students offer others a seat in their car for a low price or sometimes for free.

These rides are affordable and more likely to serve

the needs of students from smaller towns, especially when traveling home for school breaks.

While carpooling lowers the carbon footprints of travelers, it still produces a decent amount of waste and is not as reliable as a scheduled public transit system.

Cars release 70 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger, whereas trains release only 50, according to a July 2013 Guardian article.

In addition, Wheeli is

dependent on the driver’s will.

Public transportation is not.

With direct service to smaller cities, rail and bus companies would gain a significant amount of customers during the school year.

More importantly, students would gain an easy, consistent ride home.

Mills Sparkman is a sophomore political science major and the editor of the Cynic’s opinion section.

Evironmental activism is a step toward social justice Emily Johnston ejohns@uvm.edu

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any people struggle to choose between social justice or environmental justice. They think of them as two separate entities: both righteous, but on two different wavelengths.

However, the environmental justice movement has a lot more in common with social justice than initially meets the eye.

Both fights are against the same oppressive force, racist systems, therefore making them more connected than the public realizes.

The problems that must be fixed come from the same cause — oppressive systems.

According to the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, a group of organizations and individuals who work to end sexual violence, systematic oppression is the mistreatment of a group of people within a social identity group that is enforced by society because they exist in that group.

In social justice, an example of systematic oppression is Jim Crow laws, laws that enforced segregation.

In environmental justice, it’s placing environmental hazards near black communities and other marginalized races and ethnicities.

According to Scientific American in 2012, reports found that, every day POC communities breathe in more toxins than wealthier communities due to environmental burdens like highways existing closer to their towns.

Flint, Michigan, whose population is largly comprised of POC, lost clean water in 2014 due to lead contamination.

With the push from activists to bring clean water back to Flint, one can see that evironmental and social justice can work in tandem to correct wrongdoings.

Environmental justice can be seen as an extension of social justice, since both fight for the rights of oppressed people in America.

Once realizing that these movements are intertwined, the struggle to choose between the two paths disappears.

Someone can be an environmentalist and a social activist.

UVM successfully acknowledges this connection through the diversity courses offered in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.

Students take NR 006 their first year to become acquainted with the ideas of intersectional feminism, as well as NR 207 their senior year.

They are also required to take another diversity course to fulfill a second diversity requirement.

In these courses, students can use the skills provided to discuss how these movements combine ways to stop harmful practices that affect both.

The fight of both is the fight for people to live in a system where their rights and lives are taken into consideration.

This makes social justice and environmental justice two pieces in the movement for overall justice.

Emily Johnston is a firstyear political science major.

She has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2018.

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“Wildlife:” a sturdy directorial debut Cynic Cineaste Hunter McKenzie hmmckenz@uvm. edu

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elcome to Great Falls, Montana, 1960. A wildfire rages across the forested Rockies, just at the edge of the small town caught between two eras of mid-century America.

This is the set up for actor Paul Dano’s (“Little Miss Sunshine”) directorial debut, “Wildlife,” a quiet, stormy film about the impact of class and gendered obligation on the nuclear family model, or at least, an attempt at the nuclear family model.

It follows the Brinson family, Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal), Jeannette (Carey Mulligan) and their teenage son Joe (Ed Oxenbould), who must deal with the impact of Jerry getting fired from his job as a country club golf pro.

After taking a low-paying job fighting wildfires at the state border, Jerry leaves Jeannette and Joe to get by on their own in Great Falls.

Though it’s adapted from a Richard Ford novel, the film seems to borrow both its plot and narrative style from Raymond Carver stories. Its multitude of minimal scenes takes place just before or right after major actions, examining the after effects or the build up, of a household slowly imploding.

The film also takes visual style from Edward Hopper paintings — the frame is often

beautiful, mysterious, populated by anguished, white, heterosexual characters trying to look and do their best, trapped by their situation and the parameters of the frame.

Dano often leaves the camera static, and the film doesn’t pull away from its harsh fixation upon its three characters in stark medium close-ups.

These tight shots are so unrelentingly present, even when depicting the wide open mountain ranges ravaged by fire and smoke.

And this is Hopper: we are trapped by what Dano gives us in the frame, only allowed to imagine what goes on outside of it, or make it up for ourselves. The understated, evocative quality lets us fill in the blanks.

It’s the mystery that boils under this film, what we don’t see but what might be suggested, that makes it so low-key frightening. As we watch Mulligan flinch back from Gyllenhaal as he raises his voice for the first time, we flinch with her, harder than we expected ourselves to.

The narrative is decent people doing sometimes indecent things, and Dano would like us to align this thematically with the natural force of a wildfire.

It’s sometimes too obvious, but no less effective, and the concept that fire both destroys and cleanses is key to the fate of this family.

The acting is strong; the performances of the unravelling mother, the fleeing father and their observative and humdrum son are rooted in specific detail.

SOPHIE SPENCER We are mostly oriented by the point of view of the 14-year-old son, Joe. For a character that doesn’t have much to do other than simply watch his life at home come apart in front of him, he is a compelling study.

Oxenbould is a great casting choice: he looks both 14 and 35, baby fat cheeks and combed, thin hair, sad and concerned eyes.

He is both sharp and mundane; when asked about his dreams, his only semblance of an aspiration is an unenthusiastic idea to work in railroads.

He is the strange product of two beautiful, volatile parents who at times look impossibly younger and more hopeful than their own son.

Gyllenhaal fills the often unappreciated duty of being the anchor to a shaky narrative, taking the backseat of this film in order to let another presence fill the screen: Carey Mulligan.

Mulligan’s turn as Jeannette is wonderful, strange and trapped most of all by the conflicts of her duty as wife, mother and young woman. We can see her practically gritting her teeth behind a tense, close-

lipped smile.

“Wildlife” is a sturdy, effective debut from Dano. It handles multiple themes, mostly succeeding. It’s about how class imposes itself on us and drives us to the strangest parts of ourselves.

The film works best as a family drama about men and women trying to find their place in the world through the roles and scripts given to them.

Hunter McKenzie is a senior English major. He has been writing for the Cynic since spring 2018.

Who has the best bagel in Burly? We’ve got the results.

Cyrus Oswald coswald@uvm.edu

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ith so many bagel places around UVM, it can be hard to decide on the best post-Friday night bagel spot. Don’t worry, the Cynic has you covered.

One groggy Saturday morning, I, along with my team of five hungry college students, scoured Burlington for the best bagel in town. Here are the results.

Willow’s: Our day started off strong.

With cozy wood paneling and art hanging on the walls, this shop has a modern Vermont feel. This specific Saturday, the shop wasn’t packed. Only four people were in line.

When I asked the friendly cashier what the best bagel was, she told me to order the everything. Willow’s had all sorts of pastries and also served Cannibidiol infused cof-

fee.

My bagel cost $3.06. Although somewhat smothered in cream cheese, the bagel itself was light and fluffy on the inside and crisp on the outside.

Patrons had high opinions.

Burlington local Ben Wagner got the jalapeño cheddar bagel.

“It was really good, very creative,” he said.

Local Merritt Gates was also satisfied with her cinnamon raisin bagel. It was an eight out of 10, she said.

We were not disappointed with the bagel. Scores from my expert team of college student taste-testers were all in the sixes, a just-above-average bagel. It just about met expectations of what you would figure a handmade, fresh and local bagel tastes like.

Average bagel score: 6.1 Myer’s: Myer’s wasn’t too crowded. There were about 10 people waiting in line and the same number enjoying bagels.

The store has an open layout where customers can very

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Feldman’s Bagels, on the corner of Lakeside Street and Pine Street, said their best bagels were the everything and the olive and herb bagels with cream cheese. easily see the bagel-making process.

This store came highly recommended by locals. So of course when we got there, we had to cash out.

To get a full array of flavors, the staff recommended their popular Montreal Spice, with veggie cream cheese on one half and jalapeño on the oth-

er half, and sesame sunflower, with butter.

For $5.08 total, the two bagels were a steal. Smaller and less bready than a typical bagel, these worked well as sandwiches.

“Not too much bread for a bagel sandwich,” first-year Jacob Mintz Roberts said.

Average bagel score: 8.6

Feldman’s Bagels: Myer’s high scores provedhard to beat. Our next stop came close.

The staff had a hard time deciding what their best bagels were, but after much deliberation, they recommended the everything and the olive and herb bagels with cream cheese.

When the order came out, however, we were given everything and poppy seed bagels with cream cheese. After informing them of the mistake, we were quickly given our olive and herb for free.

For $6.50 for two bagels, they were a solid sweet spot between a hard and a soft bagel.

The team was impressed with the poppy seed and surprised with the olive and herb.

Average bagel score: 7.7 Read the rest online at vtcynic.com/bagels

Cyrus Oswald is an undeclared sophomore. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2018.

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In “Patriot Act,” “The Daily Show” alumnus Hasan Minhaj delivers sharp, witty commentary on current events, along with insights on growing up as an Indian-American.

This Netflix comedy talk show hybrid comes in weekly Sunday installments.

My personal favorite episode is “Oil,” in which Minhaj explains how surprisingly common oil spills are in the Gulf of Mexico and what the U.S. oil industry doesn’t want you to know about its production process. If you liked “I Love You, America” with Sarah Silverman, you will love “Patriot Act.”

I was introduced to Lady Lamb in my first year of college when my friend played a cover of her song “Crane Your Neck.”

I was instantly taken by her intricate melodies and lyrics. With her expressive voice and dense lyrics, she brings a unique style to the folk genre.

My favorite song is “Billions of Eyes,” a song about the chaos of daily life.

Lady Lamb is an artist who you will listen to and then memorize every lyric to every song and find yourself singing along throughout the day.

THE BEST AMERICAN short stories, 2018 George Seibold News Editor

podcast Harry potter and the Sacred text Sophia Knappertz Copy Chief

Vanessa Zoltan and Casper te Kuile use strategies of reading sacred texts to delve into deep, philosophical themes in the “Harry Potter” series.

With minute recaps and deep analysis of seemingly mundane sentences, Zoltan and Kuile unearth new meanings for even the most avid fans of the Wizarding World. With posts covering one chapter at a time, “Harry Potter and the Sacred Texts” is a must-listen for every Potterhead.

movie mid90s Ben Elfand Managing Editor

Jonah Hill’s directorial debut is less about skateboarding than it is about the passion with which kids explore the world.

Hill’s attention to detail is indicative of a wonder for the music, art and culture that shapes us rather than the fashionable costume skate culture is often used as. The film tells a coming of age story about a boy leaving the oppression of his family life and finding friendship in the greater world.

There is something for everyone in “Mid90s,” from music nerds to anyone familiar with the value of loyalty.

I try to catch the “The Best American Short Stories” anthology every year. This one undoubtedly sets itself apart from all the others I have read.

Guest edited by writer Roxane Gay, the anthology is filled with artful, gripping narratives that engage nearly the full spectrum of emotions. Not only do the individual stories explore a wide array of diverse perspectives, but as a whole the anthology stands as a cultural touchstone of America in 2018.

Williams gallery finishes semester with student art Keely Lyons klyons12@uvm.edu

Rotting fruit, empty fish tanks and a pile of dirt are only some of the things that have been on display this semester in the Francis Colburn Gallery, a large room across from room 301 in Williams Hall.

Run by the art and art history department and curated

by Associate Professor Mildred Beltré, the Francis Colburn Gallery has hosted artists from around the country through the Mollie Ruprecht Fund for the Visual Arts.

The Fund was established in 2011 by UVM alumnus Bill Ruprecht ’80 to bring visiting artists and critics to the school.

The gallery is named after Vermont artist Francis Colburn ’34, who helped to establish the art major at UVM and was the chair of the art department for many years.

The gallery can accommodate a wide range of artists, both student work and work by outside artists, Beltre said.

“I think it works best when we have a combination of the two, and I certainly like to keep the gallery filled to bring as much exposure to students as possible,” Beltre said.

This semester, exhibitions at the gallery have included one

by alumna Estefania Puerta ’10, several class shows, work by the art and history department’s Junior Prize winners and from outside artists. Additionally, students have the opportunity to propose one-week exhibitions to Beltre.

For the weeks after Thanksgiving break, two class shows will be in the gallery. The work of art education students will be on display Nov. 26 to Nov. 30.

After that, the advanced photography class will install their work, which is a culmination of what they have been creating all semester.

“All of our advanced classes are sort of geared towards having students build a body of work,” Beltre said. “So this gives them a taste of what it is to do that and then make an exhibition.”

The art education classes will be exhibiting work done by students who attend the Integrated Arts Academy, a public magnet school in Burlington.

The students created their work as part of an art education service learning class, Curriculum and Practicum in Elementary Art, said Erika White, the art education program director.

“The elementary students are always so excited to see their work in a real gallery setting,” White said. “A gallery set-

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Williams Hall is filled with student art on every floor. The Francis Colburn Gallery, a large room across from room 301, will be showing work done by students who attend the Integrated Arts Academy, a public magnet school in Burlington, Nov. 26 to Nov. 30. ting encourages viewers to slow down and look deeply at something they have passed over quickly in another setting.”

The children’s art was inspired by works on display in the Fleming museum, junior Ashley Bertolino said.

“The work done this semester has been incredibly fulfilling and fun,” Bertolino said. “I admit I was surprised about what all of the students were capable

of. No artwork is alike; every student’s work is personal and carefully crafted.”

The art education class used themes derived from objects in the museum to form the backdrop of creative sessions with students.

The children were then asked to describe their work to each other.

“I think whenever an artist decides to share their work with

our community, it’s exciting,” Beltre said.

The art education show will be the second to last exhibition in the Colburn Gallery.

The work of art education students will be on display Nov. 26 to Nov. 30.

The advanced photography class will install their work last, which will be on display Dec. 3 to Dec. 10.

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Duke’s basketball starts season strong Stephan Toljan stoljan@uvm.edu

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uke University’s men’s basketball team has always been regarded as one of the best programs the U.S. has to offer.

This year, they’re looking like the favorite to win the NCAA Championship, dethroning current title-holder Villanova University.

One might ask why this season is such an opportunity for Duke, and the answer is simply that their roster is loaded with new recruits.

Their starting forward, Zion Williamson, a first-year, is 6 feet 7 inches, weighs 285 pounds and averaged 36.4 points in high school, according to Duke athletics.

Their starting point guard, Tre Jones, a first-year, stands at 6 feet 2 inches, weighs 183 pounds and was ranked the No. 1 point guard in the class of 2018, according to ESPN. Duke’s roster also includes first-year forwards Cam Reddish and RJ Barrett, who both stand over 6 feet 5 inches tall.

If their stature wasn’t enough to impress, Barrett, Williamson and Reddish are the No. 1, 2 and 3 picks coming out of high school, according to ESPN. Duke has recruited the three highest-ranked basketball players from the class of 2018 and put them all on one team.

With a roster like this, Duke is undoubtedly in a more than ideal position for the coming season.

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Duke starting forward Zion Williamson, a first-year, is 6 feet 7 inches, weighs 285 pounds and averaged 36.4 points in high school.

With a team loaded with new recruits, this season is a huge opportunity for Duke.

In a Nov. 6 matchup against Kentucky University, Duke’s new recruits proved victorious with a final score 118-84, according to Duke athletics.

For those who are not well versed in basketball or are unaware of the usual scores of college games, scoring 118 points is extremely rare.

According to a Jan. 2013 USA Today article, men’s college basketball games have final scores that average around 68 points.

On average, when a men’s college basketball teams wins a game, they’ll win on average by 25 points, according to a March 2018 CBS sports article.

If that wasn’t impressive enough, in a preseason matchup against Ferris State University Oct. 27, Duke put up 24 more points than in the Kentucky game, obliterating Ferris State 132-48.

This amazing team setup doesn’t even end at the roster.

Duke’s head coach, Mike Kryzyzewski, also known as ‘Coach K,’ has quite the track record in college basketball.

Krzyzewski has lead teams to win 1,100 games in his career, more than any other coach in Division I men’s basketball history, according to Duke athletics.

1,027 of those wins were at

Duke, which is the most at one school in NCAA history.

Krzyzewski transcends college basketball. He coached the U.S. men’s Olympic team from 2005 to 2016, winning three gold medals.

Needless to say, Duke’s team is 100 percent ready for the upcoming season.

However, the chance to taste victory may only last one season.

The drawback to drafting top high school players is that many of them only stay at college level for one year before getting drafted into the NBA, also known as “one-and-doners.”

Unless Duke can make a championship victory happen this season, they might be at a loss in the future, as Barrett, Williamson and Reddish will likely be drafted by the NBA. In the NCAA playoffs, with one loss, a team is out.

This means that with one bad game, Duke could be out of championship contention.

Even so, it’s undeniable that the historically strong Duke team just got a whole lot stronger for this season.

Stephan Toljan is a firstyear English major. He has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2018.

World Cup qualifiers started with unexpected rankings Aryanna Ramsaran aramsara@uvm. edu

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occer fans everywhere are asking themselves if they should practice their French.

With France winning this past summer’s FIFA World Cup and the FIFA Women’s World Cup being held there this summer, the answer might be yes.

With the Cup being as unpredictable as it is, France might have to look out for teams like the U.S., Brazil and Jamaica in the fight for the trophy.

The U.S. women’s national team won the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2015.

In their qualifying tournament, they won all of their qualifying cup games, according to a July 2015 U.S. Soccer article.

Qualifying games for the

HOLLY COUGHLAN World Cup are played in tournaments divided by six continental zones: Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania and Europe.

The U.S. women’s national team qualified for the cup Oct.

14 after their 6-0 win against Jamaica. In their five qualifying games, they conceded zero goals and scored 26.

Despite the loss, Jamaica is making their first World Cup debut this summer. The current top goal scorer in these

qualifying games is Jamaican forward Khadija Shaw.

She has scored more goals than every other player in the men’s qualifying games for the FIFA World Cup 2018.

Brazil’s national team came in first in the tournament. In their eight games, they scored 32 goals and conceded two.

Despite Colombia’s strong start, losses against Argentina and Brazil have knocked them out.

Argentina won their Nov. 13 game against Panama 4-0.

Argentina and the Netherlands are both expected to be in the tournament.

The Asian continental zone was allotted one slot. Japan, the 2011 champions, had to fight for it. They were originally behind Australia based on goal differentials, but won the final game 1-0.

The tournament for the African and Oceanic continental zones takes place at the end of

November this year.

Each of the two tournaments will be comprised of 16 teams fighting for four spots.

Once all 24 spots have been filled, for the whole tournament, the final drawing will allow the teams to find out who will be in the first round.

Six groups of four teams will be chosen randomly Dec. 8 and will kickoff June 7, 2019.

In January 2019, the reigning champs will take on the host nation in their first game.

France is ranked No.4 and will benefit from having home support from fans from home.

They will be looking to win the trophy, but if this World Cup is anything like the last, anything can happen.

The cup begins in June 2019 but the excitement is already going on now.

Aryanna Ramsaran is a senior English major. She has been writing for the Cynic since fall 2018.

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Senior helps lead women’s basketball Nickie Morris nrmorris@uvm.edu

Senior forward Candice Wright, the all time UVM women’s basketball blocks leader, is in the midst of her final collegiate season.

Wright started off the women’s basketball season by scoring 21 points in the home opener against Rider University Nov. 9, according to UVM athletics.

Wright, a physical education major, said she has no concrete plans just yet for her time after UVM, but is excited for the rest of the season.

“I can’t wait to see us all continue to grow closer as a team and make a splash in conference play,” Wright said.

The key to success is an emphasis on defense, she said.

Sophomore guard Josie Larkins said leadership by example is critical for success.

“We try to lead by example,” Larkins said. “Team culture will come when younger players see what upperclassmen do, so it’s important to have a relationship with everyone because any divide is apparent on and off the court.”

Wright played on the team when former head coach Chris Day resigned unexpectedly in April 2017 after coaching for two years.

This led to Alisa Kresge filling in as interim head coach for a year until she was officially named head coach in April 2018.

“Candice really bought in

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Senior Candice Wright high fives her teammates as she runs onto the court before a game. Wright, the all-time UVM women’s basketball blocks leader, is in the midst of her final collegiate season. the new staff and helped our new first-years cope with the challenges of being a college athlete,” Kresge said. “She leads day in, day out, taking the pressure away from the coaching staff and giving the players another trusted voice to hear.”

Wright and her twin sister Courtney, a senior forward, hail from Ontario, making them two of six Canadian players on the

team, according to UVM athletics.

Wright’s experience with high school basketball included playing for both her high school team and a club basketball team in the Ontario Basketball Association.

She was a three time MVP on the club team that won the Ontario Basketball Association Gold Medal in 2013, according

to UVM athletics.

“Both teams I played on in high school were equally influential to my career,” Wright said. “My high school coach was also a representative league coach in the OBA, and I did four years in each. Both were solid programs.”

Kresge said strong relationships between players and coaches are a staple in Canadi-

an basketball.

“Canadian teams send many strong programs to play in the states,” Kresge said. “The relationship between Canadian coaches and teams I’ve found is often a lot closer than in the U.S.” The next UVM women’s basketball game is 7 p.m. Nov. 28 at home against Holy Cross College.

Women’s club hockey earns No.3 ranking in division Ashley Miller amille68@uvm.edu

While students across campus are getting ready for bed, the UVM women’s club ice hockey team is hitting the ice for a 10:40 p.m. weeknight practice.

The women’s club ice hockey team earned a No. 3 Division II spot this year in the Presidential Division of the Independent Women’s Club Hockey League, according to the IWCHL website.

Playing on the team requires serious commitment to a rigorous schedule, forward Anna Burke, a sophomore, said.

“The late night practices are tough, especially since it’s off campus so we have to drive a bit, but we make the best of it,” Burke said.

The club practices at Gordon H. Paquette ice arena in Burlington, she said.

Senior forward Nicole Raccuia said participating on a club team with a routine schedule has had a healthy impact on her college experience.

“Juggling late night practices, hockey-filled weekends and academics has allowed me to

strengthen my time management skills,” Raccuia said. “I look forward to practices because it’s a chance to get away from my studies and give my brain a break from reality.”

There are six seniors leading the team who have participated since they were first-years, including defense Ali Davis.

“Being a senior this year is surreal,” Davis said. “I’ve been trying to cherish everything because I love the team so much.”

The Catamounts’ club team has locked in five wins, given up two losses and ended one game in a tie this season.

“This year we have been a competitive force in our league,” Davis said. “We shortened our bench and are running three lines of forwards and three sets of defense, so we are more cohesive and committed.”

The team travelled to the University of New Hampshire Nov. 10 where they defeated UNH’s club team 3-1 in an exciting match, Burke said.

The weekend continued with a 5-2 win against Saint Anselm College Nov. 11, according to the IWCHL’s website.

“I’m proud of how we have been playing recently, espe-

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With six seniors leading the team, the UVM women’s club ice hockey won their past two games against the University of New Hampshire and Saint Anselm. The team’s next game will be 5 p.m.

Dec. 2 at Merrimack College. cially after this past weekend, beating two of the better teams in our league,” Burke said. “In both games we really dominated on the ice.”

The team’s strong chemistry is based upon off-ice connections, Raccuia said.

“Since our team is small and we constantly spend weekends together traveling, we have the

opportunity to create strong relationships with each other,” Raccuia said.

A large part of the team’s success is due to their dedicated coaching staff, Davis said.

“We have great coaches who push us to play our best,” she said.“Without them we would not be the team we are.”

The team has six games left

this season.

“We are looking forward to our games next semester and are hoping to qualify for playoffs at the end of February,” Davis said. “Hopefully we would be able to go to Nationals in March and represent UVM.” The team’s next game will be 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at Merrimack College.