Eric BlaisdellEditor

Lyndon State College is notin a financial crisis. Since coming onboard as in!terim president at LSC in earlyJuly, Steve Gold had only a cou!ple months to get his bearingsand deal with a college that hethought was in flux, but quicklyfound out that that was not thecase. "Despite the fact that therewas an honest perception ofbeing in a financial emergencyor crisis, in fact we are not in anemergency or crisis,# said Pres!ident Gold, but he added thatthe school is far from stable."We have to pay very close at!tention to what we are doingwith our resources. The roadahead is not smooth in terms ofour fiscal situation. We aregoing to continue to have to fig!ure out how to be as efficient aswe can.# After President Carol Mooreannounced her retirement inApril, Vermont State CollegeChancellor Tim Donovan hadlittle time to find a replacementand contacted Gold about pos!sibly taking the position.

"After I picked my jaw up offthe floor we had several conver!sations about it,# he said."Looking at this as a definedone year position I decided thatit was an offer that was toogood to refuse, and here I am.# President Gold may only behere for the year, but he has allthe power and responsibility ofthe office he holds, includingfaculty and staff decisions. Lastyear students and faculty wereupset about some of the ad!ministration$s decisions becauseof the school$s financial issues,including possibly not bringingback faculty. Students protestedthat they did not want to seeteachers they loved not bebrought back and the facultywere worried for their jobs. "The chancellor brought itup to me a little bit, but I thinkhe very deliberately didn$t gointo a lot of detail about it,# saidGold. "He told me he was notinterested in giving me a lot ofinformation about that becausehe wanted me to recognize thatthere had been some turmoil oncampus and some sense of crisisand emergency, but he wantedme to come up and find outabout it myself.#

While President Gold isaware of the unrest on campuslast year, he wants to make surethe students come first."This organization doesn$t existfor the sake of the employees,#he said. "It exists for the sake ofthe students. The students re!ally should be what are oneveryone$s mind here and nottheir own jobs. The reason weare here is to provide the bestpossible education that we canfor the students that are here.# President Gold wants to beinvolved with the students dur!ing his short tenure. He alreadyparticipated in a SOAR groupwith incoming freshman andplans to have dinner in the din!ing hall during the year to try tostir up conversation with thestudents and hear what is ontheir minds. One of the things the presi!dent was pleasantly surprisedabout was LSC$s focus on first!in!family students and briningin students from lower incomehouseholds. "It made me proud to be apart of a school like this and itfits in some ways what mywhole career has been about,#he said.

President Gold$s career hasbeen focused on helping thosein need from an administrativestandpoint. He has been Ver!mont$s Commissioner of theDepartment of Social Welfare,Deputy Secretary of the Agencyof Human Services, Welfare toWork Program Director, andworked 21 years in the alcoholand drug field with a focus on

prevention. This is his first foray intohigher education and for nowhe is just looking to be a leaderand help the college move for!ward. "I$m hoping to have a reallygreat year of relative stabilityhere on campus where peoplefeel we are all in this together,#he said.

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Friday, September 8, 2011 Lyndon State College Volume 58.1

LSC IS GOLDEN

A Quote to Note

“I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man,

just a mortal with potential of a superman.

I'm living on. ” - David Bowie

Campus CalendarSun. 9/11: Candlelight Vigil In Memory of 9/11

Mon. 9/12 & Tues. 9/13: Twilight Players Auditions

9/14 - 9/16: Spirit Week

Sat. 9/17: Faculty/Staff Yard Sale

IN THIS ISSUE...

New Mtn Rec. Prof. Page 2

New Way to Pay Page 2

Opinion Page 6

Entertainment Page 7

Student Quotes Page 8

Construction at LSC Page 2 Sports Preview Pages 4 & 5

Samantha VanSchoickManaging Editor

This year$s freshmen are notjust bringing their laptops andmattress pads on campus, theyare also bringing along somequestions. With enrollment reachingrecord numbers this year, LSCis welcoming 281 Vermontersand 262 out!of!state students,making the class of 2015 thesecond largest class in Lyndon$s100!year history. "There$s a lot of differentthings that we can attributethis years success to,# VincentMaloney, Associate Director ofAdmissions, explains. "We attribute a lot of it to our staff.# The admissions departmentbrought in three new coun!selors, extended office work

for student workers, and ex!tended the time spent travelingand in high schools. However,Maloney was quick to givecredit to many other depart!ments throughout the schoolsaying, "It was definitely agroup effort.# This was also a record yearfor the number of visitors oncampus. "Of those seniors thatvisited, over half of those stu!dents deposited. I think thatspeaks volumes for what we dohere,# Maloney said. "The VSC is strong,# Mal!oney says when asked howother Vermont state schoolsdid with their enrollment forthis year. "Johnson State wasright around where they$vebeen in previous years, Castle!ton was a little bit below wherethey$ve been but they were

right there.# After last years concernsabout the financial stability ofthe college, many students andfaculty wonder how the uptakein admissions will affect LSC$scrisis. "Is %the problem& completely

gonna go away? No.# Maloneyexplains,"What you have to un!derstand is that, that problem,last years incoming class, af!fects the school for four yearsbecause that class keeps mov!ing on in the system.# Interim President SteveGold warns against growth thatmay be out of proportion toLyndon$s current facilities. "Growth for growths sakecan be destructive if we don$thave the capacity on campus todo a good job,# explains Gold.Though Gold does not plan on

starting many new initiativesthis year, he does plan on push!ing one. "We need more housing oncampus, especially if we con!tinue to have the success withenrollment that we had thisyear and I have no reason tobelieve we wont.# Gold believes that maintain!ing the small campus feel atLyndon is a priority, "The ques!tion that is always evolving iswhat are the numbers that con!stitute a small college.# Though some might worryabout maintaining Lyndon$ssmall college feel, Maloneydoes not appear to be con!cerned. "This will always be thesame LSC. It will always be theplace everyone knows andloves.#

Second Largest Class Enters LSC, Bringing New Possibilities

Governor Shumlin addressesthe NEK Collaborative Eco-nomic Summit at LSC. Gov.Shumlin was optimistic about abright job future in Vermontand encouraged federal spend-ing in the Northeast Kingdom.He also spoke of plans to bringhigh speed internet to the NEKby 2013.

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Samantha VanSchoickManaging Editor

It!s been a slippery slope, butSki and Ride members are backon their feet. The club has received the fund"ing it needed to purchase an arti"ficial snow surface#again. The motion passed by a vote of159 $69%& to 72 $31%& yesterday.Club president Samuel Pierog wasecstatic about the outcome of thevote, 'I was telling everybody inthe dining hall really fast. Thatwas pretty much the first thing Idid.( Last spring SGA!s final sessionresulted with )18,930 worth offunding requests being granted toLyndon State College clubs. Thelargest amount given to a singularclub that day was )10,000 to LSCSki and Ride to purchase artificialski surface, Neveplast. However,the money came with two stipu"lations. 'One was that it had to bepassed by campus planning, theother was that it would be doneby June 30th,( explained currentSGA president Nick Russo. Russowas also the SGA financial con"troller last year under the admin"istration that set the conditions.'They didn!t meet either there"fore…*the money+ went back intothe general fund.( In order for the issue to haveappeared on this week!s ballot, Skiand Ride had to get 10 percent ofthe student body to sign the peti"tion. The official count was 175signatures, allowing the issue tobe put on the ballot. The question still remains whythe deadline was not met the firsttime the money was allocated to

Ski and Ride. 'We didn!t get ap"proval from *Campus Planning+ inthe timeline that we had becauseit was such a big investment andbecause there was so much ridingon it, they wanted to get more in"formation,( explains Pierog. Wayne Hamilton, Dean of Ad"ministration and head of CampusPlanning, would agree that moreinformation was part of the holdup. Hamilton explained that thepracticality and operational as"pects of the project were their pri"mary concern. Hamilton listedthat questions the committee hadas: 'How much maintenance doesit require? How durable is the ma"terial? How well does it perform?( Hamilton asked Ski and Ridethese questions via email in lateMay. 'There was no further actionat that point from the committeebecause we were waiting to hearback if the purchase was going togo forward based on the productissues and that!s kind of where weare today,( said Hamilton. 'Theday following the last campusplanning meeting in May I com"municated back to the club repsas well as to Nick Russo wherethings stood at that point… Idon!t know where those discus"sions went to be honest with you.( 'It!s hard to do anything if wedon!t have great communica"tion…There was a period of aboutthree weeks where we didn!t haveany from Ski and Ride about whatwas going on with the project,(Russo explains. According to Pierog, the delaywas caused by difficulty findinganswers to Campus Planning!squestions regarding the materialdue to the availability of theNeveplast representative. 'It was

hard to keep in contact with himbecause he had a project going onin Colorado,( said Pierog. Pierog hopes to soothe worriesabout the product with a soon tobe scheduled conference call witha Neveplast sale representative,'Once we can figure out the dateof that, we can move forward.( The issue of where the terrainpark will be located still remains.Last spring, Ski and Ride had rep"resentatives attend a CampusPlanning meeting to ask for thecommittee!s consideration forpossible sites. The focus had beento put the slope on PresidentsHill, where there has been a ter"

rain park in the past. Concernsabout the site arose due to limitedaccessibility and difficulty forPublic Safety to police the site. 'We can!t be everywhere andwe can!t be everything for every"body. It should be a concern be"cause some have proven that theycannot be trusted with the free"dom,( George Hacking, Directorof Public Safety explained. 'We!retalking about 18 , 24 yr olds usingthis hill… Unfortunately there area few who tend to push the limitsand create problems for the restof the students who want to usethat area.( Hacking suggested that if

money could be raised for cam"eras to monitor the site, it maybecome feasible. There are five other more cen"trally located sites that have beensuggested, though when a deci"sion on the location should be ex"pected is still up in the air untilthe Campus Planning!s questionsabout the material are answered. 'I don!t care,( said Pierog whenasked where he would like to seethe park. 'I just want it to be hereon campus so the students canenjoy it.(Pierog is optimistic about the fu"ture of the park, 'We just have tokeep pushing it forward.(

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Lyndon State College Friday, September 16, 2011 Volume 58.2

BETTER LATE THAN NEVEPLAST

A Quote to Note

“It is a damn poor mind indeed

which can't think of at least two ways to

spell any word.” - Andrew Jackson

Campus CalendarSat. & Sun 9/17 - 9/18: Homecoming Weekend

Sat. 9/17: Roller Derby at Fenton Chester Arena

Sun. 9/18: Jean Charles Performs

Wed. 9/21: Blood Drive at Rita Boll Compex

IN THIS ISSUE...

Angry Ani Page 3

Climate Change Page 4

SGA Elections Page 5

Entertainment Page 8

Diversity at LSC Page 12

Rent-A-Book at LSC Page 11 Sports Highlights Pages 6 & 7

Eric BlaisdellEditor

The Hornets Nest has gonethrough an overhaul.Aramark, Lyndon State College!sfood supplier, has made somechanges to the snack bar itself andthe snack bar menu in the studentcenter. 'It!s simplified, it is limited alittle bit,( said Adam Vigue, FoodService Director. 'At one point wehad four different kinds of friesand we weren!t selling four differ"

ent kinds. We were selling twokinds better than anything else soit is simplified more than it was.( There has been some confu"sion as to what is still on the menuand what is not, like mozzarellasticks. 'We need to market that a littlebit better,( he said. 'So we need toput up some signs, especially forthe mozzarella sticks. Our menu boards are a lot betterthan they were last year. They aredigital, but they changed a few

things around so that is thebiggest issue. We just need toget it out there more about thestuff we have in the back.(

The decision to abridge themenu came from Aramark.'It was a corporate decision; theydid it for a lot of other schoolstoo,( said Vigue. 'They called it a-grill refresh!, they totally changedover the grill, the menu and every"thing like that so I had some sayon what to put on there, but theywanted to simplify it.(But VIgue agreed that it was timefor a change.' That menu hasn!t beenchanged in like 10 years,( he said.

'Even our coolers were out ofwhack; we were offering every fla"vor of everything so a lot of it wasbeing thrown away.(There are more changes on theway. 'I want to change the delimenu too,( he said. 'It has someweird stuff on there that wasbrought in before I got here. Wewant to change things up once ina while, but don!t want to get ridof things that are big sellers.( Vigue knows that not everyonewill be happy with the cuts.'Our goal is not to make less op"tions, but we want to be realistictoo,( he said.

Snack Bar Shake-Up

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Potential locations for the Neveplast slope, clockwise, top to bottom: Hill behind gym, near the new basketball court, besidethe Rita Boll Complex, behind the softball field, on President’s Hill, and near the new skate park Photos by: Sierra Willenburg

Photo by: Sierra WillenburgNew digital menus at the Hornet’s Nest

What’s Gone:Waffle FriesCurly FriesOnion RingsWhat’s New:Quesadilas Spicy Chicken Sandwich California Vegetable BurgerCombo Meals

Samantha VanSchoickManaging Editor

Shouts for !Free Pizza!" res#onated throughout the AlexanderTwilight Theatre Lobby during arally for higher education Thurs#day, offering a slice for a signa#ture.

A petition that addressed theVermont Legislature calling for!reasonable, incremental in#creases in state funding for theVermont State Colleges in orderto maintain high quality educa#tion and minimize student debt"was passed around the lobby forthe Lyndon State College com#munity to sign. Over a 100 nameslined the pages of the petition,but only about 52 students, fac#ulty, and staff stayed to listen tothe speeches.

However, those who did notdisappear after 15 pizzas, whichwere purchased by the FacultyUnion, were devoured believed inthe importance of the event.Though doubtful about the im#mediate benefits of the rally,Shera Howe, a junior majoring inEnglish, thought student pres#ence was important. !The morepeople that are standing around,the more people that are likely tolook, the more likely people willsign the petition."

Natural science professorMichael Miller would agree. !Weneed to send a resounding mes#sage to the community and thepublic at large that the state col#leges are in dire need of help andthey need it now. Anything thathelps get the message out, by itsown accord, is a success."

Education professor Timo#thy Sturm began the rally by ask#ing the audience the significanceof three numbers: 22, 30, 52.

The numbers refer to the av#erage college student graduatingat age 22; having a 30#year studentloan to pay off and not finishingpayments on that loan until age52. Sturm said that loans used tobe for 10 years and the student$seducation would be paid off byage 32.

!Imagine that a person grad#uates from college and ends up at52 having paid student loans forover half of their life," he said.

!We are bound and determinedto strike a better balance."

Someone who has felt theeconomic pressure is JenniferAdams, a senior psychology andhuman services major.

!I planned to attend graduateschool, but that may no longer befinancially possible for me," shesaid. !I have two children and Ihave to save for their college ed#ucations while trying to pay formine."

She sees the rally as a step inthe right direction.

!This issue needs attention,"she said. !There are people whocan$t even graduate because theycan$t afford it."

Student Government Associ#ation President Nick Russo fo#cused on how the issue isaffecting the school.

!Out of 719 students whofilled out an exit interview survey,250 of them indicated that finan#cial concerns were among theirprimary reasons for leaving LSC,"he said. !It would be nice if %thestate& gave more money from theUniversity of Vermont to theVSC schools because they aregeared more towards your mod#est income students who want ac#cess to higher education."

State Senator Joe Benning,an LSC graduate, attended therally and addressed the fact thatVermont is ranked at the bottomof state funding for education.

!Through the years the legis#lature has not considered this tobe a top priority, that$s only goingto change if we get more peoplein the legislature that want tomake it a top priority," he said. !Itis not in Vermont$s best interestto be last on that list."

Sturm concurred that statefunding is drying up.

!In 1962, 46 percent of theoperating budget was dedicatedto higher education," he said. !Itis now 18.7 percent. If you do thearithmetic it is about a one per#cent decrease per year."

Benning says that part of thereason the VSC schools receiveless funding is due to their lack ofrepresentation in the legislature.

!Not only have they affectedthe funding, but as you changethose dynamics, you can change

the numbers," he said.The Vermont senate has 10

senators that are affiliated withthe VSC and five senators whoare affiliated with UVM. TheVermont house has 37 represen#

tatives affili#ated withUVM and 16representa#tives affiliatedwith theVSC. Theseaf f i l i a t ionsmean that thesenator orrepresenta#tive is analumni of, hastaught at, haschildren who

attend, or has served on theboard of trustees for UVM or aVSC school.

!UVM made a critical mis#take this year with its severancepackage to their outgoing presi#

dent and that has soured a lot ofpeople in the legislature aboutwhat kind of funding UVM gets,"Benning said. !But its going totake a lot more than just onepresident getting a whopping biggolden parachute on his way outthe door to change things."

The petition is still availablefor signatures. Banners are hang#ing in the science wing hallway.Sturm hopes to get 1,000 sup#porters. He had a message to stu#dents who did not attend therally.

!This should matter to you.It$s your life and it$s important."

Rallies were also held atCastleton State College, JohnsonState College, and Vermont Tech#nical College.

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Friday, October 21, 2011 Lyndon State College Volume 58.6

A Quote to Note“Well, you can go on looking forward.

There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.”

- Gandalf “The Lord of the Rings”

Campus CalendarFri. 10/21: Queen City Radio Hour @ ATT

Sat. 10/22: Insomnia Bowling

Mon. 10/24: Mon. Night Football @ ASAC 100

Wed. 10/26: SGA Meeting @ 8PM, ASAC 100

IN THIS ISSUE...

Occupied Opinons Pages 2 & 3

Freshman Dorms Page 4

Ryan’s Review Page 5

Intramural Field Page 6

LSC’s Webmaster Page 8

Angry Ani Page 3 Men’s Soccer Page 6

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Higher Education Affiliations of the Vermont Legislature

Photos by Sierra WillenburgClockwise from top: Students and faculty listen to speakers in the ATT lobby, Proffessor Tim Sturm opens therally, Students signing the petition, Attendees at the rally, LSC Senior Jennifer Adams speaks.

Photo by Sarah Murphy

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Lyndon State College Friday, February 3, 2012 Volume 58.13

TRUSTEES HIKE TUITIONACROSS THE VSC

NEXT YEAR, THERE WILL BE A 4% INCREASE INTUITION ACROSS THE VERMONT STATE COLLEGESYSTEM. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, ANOTHER 4%

INCREASE WILL BE IMPLEMENTED.

A Quote to Note

“I don't know the key to success, but the

key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

- Bill Cosby

Campus CalendarSun. 2/5: Super Bowl Party in ASAC 100

Mon. 2/6: Free Skate!

Mon. 2/6: Music Mondays @ 7PM in ASAC 100

Wed. 2/8: Jean Charles Plays Guitar @ the library

IN THIS ISSUE...

Opinion Page 2

Prof. Jean Charles Page 4

SGA Pres. Russo Page 8

Women’s B-Ball Page 8

Cranmore Resort Profile Page 8

Meet Suncooked Pages 6 and 7 Shuttle to Burke Mt. Pages 12

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Katelyn ZenieCritic Correspondent

Jeffrey Fortunato, also knownas Moufy is performing here atLyndon State in late April.

Moufy is a well known hip!hop/rap artist from the BostonMass. area who"s song #BostonLights" plays at every New Eng!land Patriots home game. Hewon best new artist at the BostonMusic Awards, has opened forMac Miller, and much more.

Christina Cadorette, BrianLacharite, and an estimated 45music business and industry ma!jors and Moufy fans attended thestudent government associationmeeting Wednesday to showtheir support. This event wasfirst sparked by the #Event Man!agement" class on campus,through Facebook and word ofmouth.

Many are saying that just thebuzz around campus on thistopic is enough to get them tocheck it out. One of the mostconvincing arguments in favor ofMoufy coming to Lyndon is his

personal tie with the school. Hisbrother, Jose Fortunato, attendedLyndon just last year. There areat least two hundred people thatindicated their interest in thisevent on Facebook, the organiz!ers are looking to fill up theAlexander Twilight Theatre"s500+ seats.

In the past, student govern!ment and the Campus ActivitiesBored has been hesitant to fundmusic performances because theydon"t get the turn out they needto make up for the money theyput into the event.

However, students and sup!porters of this project believebringing Moufy to Lyndon will beworth the money. The event wasoriginally four thousand dollars,

but with a combination of a onethousand dollar grant and the#event management" student classfees, the event was taken down totwenty!seven hundred dollars.

The student governmentpassed this event with the re!striction set that their moneyonly be used for booking fees andproduction.

Brooke Parciak, a MBI stu!dent involved with this eventsays, $People believe that thismeeting is only for Moufy tocome and perform, but realisti!cally this is a stepping stone forthe future to get performers tocome here.%

Trever Gross, another MBImajor says $Am I fan of Moufy?No. Do I want to help the MBIprogram gain some momentum,get the approval to show what wecan do, nail it, and be able to ex!pand on this for the good of thecollege and it&s students? Nobrainer; absolutely.%

For more information onMoufy, and some free mp3 down!loads of his tracks, check him outon www.last.fm/music/Moufy.

MONEY FOR MOUFY

Photo by Eric BlaisdellChristina Cadorette and BrianLacharite speak at the SGA meeting

Samantha VanSchoickManaging Editor

Plates filled with food linedthe tables where the VermontState College Board of Trusteesvoted 9!4 to raise tuition for VSCstudents.

This is the first time in VSChistory that the Board of Trusteesvoted on tuition increases fortwo years in advance. One no!table trustee was not present tovote.

While Governor Peter Shum!lin was present for the openingceremony of the new Commu!nity College of Vermont campusin Rutland, he did not remain for

the trustee meeting immediatelyfollowing the ribbon cutting.This is despite his recent plea tothe state legislature to make Ver!mont $the higher educationstate.%

Chancellor Tim Donovan wasin favor of the increase saying,$I"m happy to have the board"ssupport of the proposal, but Iknow it"s a difficult decision forall of us to come to terms with.%

Student trustee for the VSC,John Kleinhans, a senior liberalstudies major at LSC, was vocalabout his opposition. $We puttoo much burden on students.It"s time for us to really send a

message to the students that wesupport them.%

Throughout the meeting,some trustees wandered in andout to the buffet room, comingback with plates of spring rolls,almond bars, quiche and cookies.

See !Promise Broken" page 4

Tyler DumontCritic Correspondent

As the final days approachtowards a decision of who will bethe next food service providerfor the Vermont State Colleges,student curiosity has sparkedmany questions about what toexpect when it comes to the fu!ture of $eating% at Lyndon.

Aramark, who has been thefood service provider for the en!tire VSC system for twenty years,faces an expired contract as ofJuly 1, 2012. The decision not toautomatically renew the com!pany"s contract was made by thebusiness affairs council of theVSC last year. The council, alsoknown as the $BAC,% is com!posed of deans of administrationfrom each of the VSC schoolsand directed by Tom Robbins,Vice President of Finance forVSC.

While specific proposalseach company would bring toLyndon State, such as hours of

operation, meal plans and foodserved, will not be negotiateduntil a contract is signed, it isclear that things will not be thesame in the coming months.

$No matter who is picked,students should expect change,%said Lyndon Dean of Adminis!tration Wayne Hamilton. $I don"tthink people should assume if wechoose to stay with Aramark thatthings will stay the status quo.Our whole food service will berethought, with a focus on localfood and sustainability.%

Among those new ideas is aVermont Technical College pro!posal to build new processing fa!cilities that would serve the VSCsystem with products such asmilk, made locally here in Ver!mont.

Hamilton added that he alsoexpects that the cost of board atLyndon will increase next year ei!ther way, although $not signifi!cantly.%

See Food Service page 4

BON APPETITE

Photos by Samantha VanSchoick

Snow blocks have been installed to prevent injuries from fallingice and snow at the ASAC entrance.

LSC TuitionIn State: 2011!12 '8,568 2012!13 '8910.72 2013!14 '9267.15Out of State: 2011!12 '18,456 2012!13 '19,194.24 2013!14 '19,962.01

NEWSFeb. 3, 2012 The Critic, Page 4

Food Service (from page 1)Aramark and Sodexo have

both proposed to do some kindof renovation to the StevensDining Hall, although a com-plete renovation will not likelybe possible until the summer of2013.

Their proposals, accordingto Associate Dean of StudentAffairs Jonathan Davis, also in-cluded financial information, asample of the weekly menu, ahead chef position, more stu-dent discounts or meal plancredits at local businesses, guestmeals and more. “We’d like to work on every-

thing,” Davis said. “From pro-motions, to vegetarian meals,coffee refills, bringing food outof the dining hall, the size of thecontainer…we’re going to coverit all,”

In an effort to inform allLSC students of what to expectin the future, The Critic con-tacted representatives fromboth companies.

Greg Yost, Senior Public Re-lations Specialist for Sodexo -one of the largest food manage-ment companies in NorthAmerica - told The Critic that itis their policy not to disclose anyinformation regarding specificcontract proposals while in ne-

gotiation, but information on avariety of their school programsand schools they serve is avail-able on their website and theyencourage Lyndon students tolog on and review it.

Multiple calls to Aramark’sFood Service Department werenot returned. Lyndon FoodService Director Adam Viguealso declined comment.

Vigue, an Aramark employeeand former Lyndon student,would keep his position if Ara-mark remains at Lyndon, DeanHamilton said. Sodexo has of-fered two different candidatesfor the director job.

The final decision on whowill be the next provider will ul-timately be up to the BusinessAffairs Council of VermontState Colleges, who has beenmeeting with committees of stu-dents and staff from all schools

in the system. A date for the final decision

to be made has not yet been set. Owen Pruden, the consult-

ant hired by the VSC to gatherproposals from the food servicecandidates, is currently in theprocess of redoing final analysis,which will then be presented tothe selection committee tomake a decision. The decision isreportedly expected in the nextweek or two.“The whole system repre-

sents an improvement in thequality of services to the stu-dents,” Pruden told The Critic.“Students will see obvious im-provements no matter who thecontractor is.”

The awarded new contractwill allow the chosen provider tobegin service on July 1.

Samantha VanSchoickManaging Editor

Students fill the first floorof the library studying, typing,and reading as Jean Charles, anadjunct professor here at Lyn-don State, begins to strum hisSpanish guitar.

Every Wednesday from11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Charles fillsthe room with the sound of clas-sical acoustic guitar.

“Students are busy, so tocome and listen they really haveto have music in their hearts,”Charles said when asked how hewould encourage students tocome listen.

Charles teaches a guitarcourse at LSC. He has beenplaying music since he was ayoung boy in Haiti, starting with

instruments like the clarinet. Hebegan playing guitar around theage of 19.

“I have always been drawnto music,” said Charles.

Another passion of Charles’is politics, which may stem fromhis service in the United StatesMilitary. Just when he was oldenough to be drafted, he enteredthe service and served duringVietnam, though he never hadto go there.

“It was good because I don’thave the scars in here,” Charlesexplained as he pointed to hishead. Charles serves as the townchair of the Lyndon RepublicanTown Committee.

Lyndon’s library is notCharles’s only venue, he alsoplays at weddings.

Music WhileYou Read Photo by Tyler Dumont

Changes may be coming to LSC’s dining experience

Photo by Samantha VanSchoick

Interim President Steve Gold delivers his State of the College address,highlighting the presidential search, success in admissions, and newhours at the library.

Photo by Sierra Willenburg

Prof. Jean Charles serenades students in the library.

Over the nexttwo years stu-dents attendingVSC schools willbe facing an8.15% tuition in-crease—a quarterof which does notgo to the colleges,but to paying re-tiree benefitsthrough theGASBY 45 pro-gram. “We have

some long termobligations to retiring employ-ees that have not been funded,”Donovan explained. He notedthat the board will also look tomeet these obligations not onlyfrom tuition money, but throughcollective bargaining.

Without the increase in tu-ition, budget cuts would havehad to be made at the colleges.Not everyone was pleased withthe outcome, but it did notcome as a shock. “I expected the outcome

would be such,” Gordon Win-ters, vice chair of the board andone of four “no” votes, com-mented after the meeting. “I ex-pected it, respect it, don’t agreewith it.”

Kleinhans cited language

used by the 1961 general assem-bly when it founded the VSC,“‘The Vermont State College’sshall plan, supervise, administerand operate facilities for educa-tion above the high school levelsupported in whole or in sub-stantial part with state funds.’That promise has been broken.”

Trustee Jim Masland de-fended the increase saying,“When we take away the thingsthat enhance [student’s] educa-tion, it lessens what they getwhen they get their diploma.”

Ashley Fortin, an atmos-pheric science major at LyndonState, believes her education isworth the hike, “I don’t mindpaying the extra. I think it’sworth it.”

However, exercise science

sophomore Dan Rowe was notpleased. “That really upsets me be-

cause I’ve already taken out somany loans to pay for college asit is. I already have to work twojobs, so it really hinders thehours I can put into school.” “I’m sympathetic [to stu-

dent’s], but we have all hit arough spot,” Masland said dur-ing the meeting.

As the trustees packed uptheir iPads and brought theirempty plates to the buffet room,all that lined the tables werenameplates and leftover crumbs. “I’ll be having some more of

this yummy food before I leave,”Gary Moore, chair of the board,laughed.

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A March 5 court date has beenset for a Lyndon State Collegestudent accused of sexually as!saulting a New Hampshirewoman, last year, on the LSCcampus.

Taylor Burke, 20, from Ben!nington, Vt., was "cited and re!leased# earlier this week, theVermont State Police said. He isscheduled to appear in CaledoniaSuperior Court.

AJ Raskin, a junior Music

Business major, said he did notsee the grounds for the citationagainst Burke."I really don$t know what hap!

pened. I think it$s just all hearsayand rumors. All I know is he is agreat guy, a great friend and I$msure this is all going to blow over,#said Raskin.

In a text message, JakeMachell, a junior Music businessmajor had a similar response."He$s a great kid. Anyone who

knows him would say the same,#said Machell.

The identity of the alleged vic!

tim has not been released. Theincident is being referred to as"an acquaintance sexual assault.#

The state police began an in!vestigation on March 27 and thecollege sent out a community no!tice about the incident April 14.LSC spokesman, Bob Whittaker,could not provide any specific in!formation about the investiga!tion. "I have not had a chance to

talk with %George Hacking& toget updated and reminded aboutthe occurrences and details of lastyear,# said Whittaker.

Whittaker stated that the col!

lege worked with the VermontState Police to investigate the in!cident. "We learned of the incident

through the Vermont State Po!lice. The victim went right to thestate police to report it,# saidWhittaker. "We cooperated withthem once we learned of it. Theytook the investigation right fromthe start. We sent a communitynotice out to make sure peoplewere alerted that something hadoccurred.#

Jonathan Davis, AssociateDean of Student Affairs, andGeorge Hacking, Director ofPublic Safety, declined comment,

referring any questions to BobWhittaker.

Special Investigation Unit De!tective, Russell Finn, was notavailable for comment.

Burke was unresponsive to theCritic$s multiple attempts toreach him for comment.

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MONTPELIER, Vt.'Over 350students and faculty from acrossthe Vermont State Collegesstormed the Statehouse Tuesdaydemanding more state fundingfor higher education.

The rally came on the heelsof a VSC Board of Trustee deci!sion to raise tuition by about 8(over the next two years so thestate colleges could continue tooperate at current capacity.

Freshmen sisters Olivia andHannah Hamel were among the15 Lyndon State students whorode the bus to the Statehouse.

"We will have debt. Mymom is a single parent and she$strying to help pay for bothOlivia and myself,# Hannah ex!plained while wearing the whiteshirt she decorated to read"Swimming in debt! Help!#Many students wore white shirtssporting the amount of studentdebt they have incurred while incollege.

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Students rally at the State House

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!I think we"re going tomake a huge difference,# Oliviasaid. !I don"t think a lot of stu$dents know that Vermont isdead last in financial support forhigher education institutions.#Vermont is close to last, ranking49 in the country in providingstate support to higher educa$tion institutions.

LSC had about 24 studentsattend the rally, while Castletonand Vermont Technical Collegehad a total of 63 students pres$ent. Johnson State brought over125 students to the statehousesteps.

!Instead of urging the leg$islature to do the research, weare bringing the research tothem,# JSC Student Govern$ment president James Dempseywas excited about the studentpresence. !We"re going to showthem, %this is how much I owe, Igo to JSC, and you can ask mequestions.#

!I"m hoping we just get theword out,# Kristina Gorden, ajunior majoring in wellness andalternative medicines, ex$plained. !I see a lot of studentsleave school because they can"t

afford it.# Gorden"s enthusiasmfor the event began on the busride over when students werebusy making posters for therally.

Currently Vermont"s highereducation system, including thefive state colleges, University ofVermont, and Vermont StudentAssistance Corp., receives about&80 million a year from thestate.

In$state tuitions around thestate colleges range from &8,568at Castleton, Lyndon, and John$son, to &10,656 at VTC. Out$of$state tuition is as low as &18,456at LSC to &20,376 VTC. Manystudents were quick to point outthat tuition does not includeextra charges such as lab fees,office supplies, and textbooks.Room and board can add up to&10,000 to the student"s bill.

After listening to studentleaders and members of the leg$islature speak on the steps, stu$dents had the chance to interactwith legislators. !Every singlestudent was assigned a state leg$islator,# explained VSC studenttrustee John Kleinhans. Goingto have one on one conversa$

tions… they have a little pledgesheet and if they want to pledgethe Vermont State College theycan sign.#

Some students found legis$lators hard to approach.

!I was a little nervous,# saidRain Nissen$Reilly, a seniorglobal studies major at LSC.

!I don"t know why though.He was very nice,# Roland Pol$lard, a sophomore computer andsustainability major at LSC, whowas partnered with Nissen$Reilly, added.

!I wish I had talking pointsthough, I kind of lost my words.He was open to talking to usthough, he seemed to care abouthigher education,# Nissen$Reillyexplained.

As students loaded back onthe bus to LSC, the Hamel sis$ters felt good about what hadbeen accomplished.

!I do feel like we made adifference,# Olivia said. !Theyknow we are here.#

!And during lunch we did alittle shopping,# Hannah smiledand held up a small blue bag.

Rally (cont. from page 1)

Photos by Samantha VanSchoickAbove: Students, faculty, and family members rallied at the State Housein support of further funding for higher education

Below: Hannah Hammel shows off her customized rally wear

Photos by Eric BlaisdellTop: John Kleinhans speaks to protesters at the State House. Center Left: Student body president Nick Russo makes hisremarks. Center right: Students wear their college debt on their sleeves Bottom: Students arrive at the State House rally

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The Faculty Staff Scholar-ship recipients for the 2011-12school year have been decided,and they are excited. “Some people look at a 500dollar scholarship and say,that’s only 500 dollars, but tome its like ‘Oh my god! That’s500 dollars, let me get it!’” Kelly Butler, a sophomoredouble majoring in Atmos-pheric Science and AppliedMath, said enthusiastically

about receiving one of the Fac-ulty Staff Scholarships for thissemester. “Overall, I just feel veryhonored and appreciative,”said Erin Milne, a junior whoseprimary major is Math Second-ary Education. Butler and Milne are twoof five Lyndon State Collegestudents to receive the 500dollar scholarship from thecommittee this semester.Vance Brooks, Mariah Ogden,and Julia Trombley were alsoselected after an application

and committee review process.“It was pretty simple to apply,there was a form on the LSCwebsite. It asks you somequestions about your extra cur-ricular activities, work experi-ence, your major, just generalstuff like that,” Milne said de-scribing the applicationprocess. The scholarship comesfrom money raised by the Fac-ulty/Staff Scholarship Commit-tee throughout the year withevents such as The Faculty/Staff Silent Auction, Comfy

Days for staff, the PEI musi-cian’s concert and bake sale,and the popular campus eventThe Spring Dip. This weekend, Saturday,September 17, the committeeis raising money for the schol-arship with a yard sale outsidethe Rita Bole Gym from 9 a.m.to 1 p.m. Sale items were do-nated by faculty, staff, andcommunity members. Therewill be an array of items tochoose from- everything frombooks, to jewelry, to kitchenitems. All the leftover items

will be donated to local chari-ties to prevent waste. “I feel like Lyndon isreaching out to people becauseI can’t really afford to go toschool, so having scholarshipsavailable that people can fillout shows that being involvedwith others on campus canbenefit you,” Butler explained. “I encourage people toapply because it’s easy and younever know when you’re goingto win!” Milne said enthusias-tically.

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Derek CampbellCritic Correspondent

Lyndon State College’sMusic Business & Industry pro-gram is living proof that…… Ifyou build it, they will come…

In 2005 LSC didn’t have amusic major. Enter Beth Norris,an Opera singer who has per-formed in opera’s at her alma-mater Indiana University andacross the Midwest.

Norris wanted to bring aMusic program to LSC that wasless traditional and more differ-ent than typical music programs.

Norris began talking withLinda Mitchell in the businessdepartment and others aboutcreating a Music Business pro-gram. A huge think tank wasbrought together made up offaculty and students from theschool as well as Vermonters al-ready active in the music indus-try like studio tech Chuck Eller,Halogen Records’ Justin Hoyand others. Together they brain-stormed on how to build anMBI program at LSC from theground up.

If you build it, they willcome….

In the spring of 2006, soonafter the program was con-ceived, Norris received an un-usual phone call. The man onthe line was Ralph Perkins. Hesaid “I manage a folk/rock artistwho was very popular in the 70’s,his name is James Taylor.” Nor-ris had certainly heard of JamesTaylor. Heck, who hasn’t? Ralph

continued “As soon as you getyour program up and running,we need interns to go on tourwith James.” Ralph wanted peo-ple who were prepared to workin the music business. Norriswas sure she could provide whathe wanted and accepted hisoffer.

If you build it, they willcome….

Shortly after Ralph Perkins’call, Norris’s phone rang again.The woman on the line waslooking for a position as theTheater Technical Director.Norris asked her “What instru-ment do you play?” The womansaid “Well, actually, I’m a soundengineer.” That was just whatNorris wanted to hear. TheWoman on the phone was BrittMoore. Britt was hired to teachproduction classes in the brandnew MBI program. Britt was in-strumental in stepping up theproduction aspect of the pro-gram. According to Norris“Early on it was Britt who reallypushed this program forward.,”said Norris.

If you build it, they willcome…

It wasn’t long after meetingBritt that Norris received an-other phone call. It was a fellowby the name of Joe Gittleman.Norris, being more of a fan ofclassical music than modernrock, wasn’t exactly sure who shewas talking to. After a bit of re-search she realized that the manwho had contacted her is in fact

a world famous performer.Joe Gittleman is the bass

player for the band that in-vented the sub-genre “Ska-Core”, The Mighty MightyBosstones. Joe has been steepedin the music industry fordecades, played concerts aroundthe globe and worked withcountless musicians as producer,A&R man, studio musician, tourmanager… You name it, Joe’sdone it. He was the perfect per-son to really bring the Industryto the Music Business & Indus-try program.

Together with the otherteachers in the program, Norris,Britt, Joe & Department ChairDavid Johnston have built anMBI program that is drawingstudents from around the coun-try as well as around the world.The program began with eightstudents majoring in MBI. Bythe end of the second semesterthe number had grown to 20.Now, with the program in itsfifth year, the number has sky-rocketed to 115 students major-ing in MBI, making it the fastestgrowing program in the historyof LSC. Last year the programgraduated seven students, fourof whom have already gone onthe work in the industry withjobs at Skyline Music, CitadelBroadcasting, Atomic MusicGroup and Q Division. Of the20 student enrolled the first year90% have graduated. On aver-age, programs usually see about30% of students graduate from a

given program. Norris still has big dreams

for the future. She and BrittMoore would love to one day seean MBI department building onthe LSC campus complete withrehearsal rooms, production stu-dios, performance spaces, and astudent’s Gold record hangingon the wall. Incorporating the-ater, dance and other perform-ing arts into the program is partof that dream.

Norris knows that manystudents will come to the pro-gram in search of fame and star-dom, but as she puts it “Wehave, from the time we started,been a plan B program.” She ex-plains “Plan A is: ‘I’m cominghere because I want to be richand famous, write the next greatrock song, have an album. I’mgonna make a million dollars!’That’s plan A” Norris continues“Plan B is: We’re going to get

you into the industry, working ina job that you absolutely lovebeing a support person for all ofthose plan A people. And thenyou’re there and if you’re in theright place at the right time andyou get lucky and you have theseskills, then you’ll get bumped up.So we’re trying to be really real-istic with our students whenthey come here with plan Adreams. We’re not going topromise that. We are going topromise that we will teach youhow to use the equipment, howto understand what’s involved inthe industry and get you readyto be able to walk into a job.

For an in depth view of thestory with more info about Nor-ris, Moore, Gittleman and firstyear student Jeremy MacDon-uogh visit the critics website at:www.lyndonstatecritic.com andfor audio clips go to http://lyn-donunderground.com/the -critic.htm

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MBI Professor Beth Norris Teaching a Class.