Foreign exchange students find more than they expect
When deciding upon a place to go abroad, whether for a semester or a year, most students choose their destination with extra care.
Rally Cat, to most students, brings to mind images of a friendly, oversized Catamount, slapping high fives to kids and messing up the hair of college students who eagerly attend hockey games and show their school spirit.
Maple research continues on campus
In most parts of the country, maple syrup is something for topping pancakes, lumberjacks and Buddy the Elf. In Vermont, it’s much more than that. From maple ice cream and frosted donuts to maple festivals and over 50 sugar shacks, small houses where sap is boiled down to syrup, maple sugaring extends to an entire culture in Vermont.
Legally, as all UVM undergraduates should know, not a drop of alcohol should be making its way up to the residence halls. In reality, however, more than a few 30-racks pass through dorm doors.
How to stay healthy in the midst of the flu season
Jill Hoppenjans has no problem saying, “told you so.”
How former baseball and softball players are readjusting to a UVM without their sports
Last spring, UVM baseball players sat silently in Ira Allen Chapel, in the uniforms they would no longer be asked to wear, protesting the University’s decision to end the sport that had helped to shape their lives. Nonetheless, the program left and so did most of the players. For those that stayed, life at UVM is very different.