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J-Pop mixes learning, music

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Men’s soccer coverage

One out of three contract im-passes at UVM is nearing an end. On Oct. 20 Interim President

John Bramley sent an email to the University community stating that a tentative agreement has been made during the negotiations between the administration and United Academics (UA), UVM’s faculty union.Over the course of the past

year, UA has been in negotiations with the administration about sal-ary increases for the 2012 school year. Bramley said that he would

need to consult with the Board of Trustees before the negotiation

“I am told by United Academ-

ics that they have a bump in the

However, UA President David Shiman said he is concerned that deal might not go through.If no consensus is reached, the

Vermont Labor Relations Board will intervene and make the deci-sion for the two parties without a faculty vote, Shiman said. “No one wants to negotiate for

all those hours, then have someone else make the decision — hopefully

A discussion on Nov. 14 will hopefully end with an agreement that can be approved by faculty vote, he said.

Shiman said. “We have been going since January and put in so many hours, as has the administration,

and hopefully in November we will get close enough for both sides to

Some students and faculty have voiced concern that an agree-ment will not be reached in a timely fashion, but Shiman said he disagreed. “Yes, an agreement can be

If the consensus is reached on Nov. 14, a new contract will be created, salary increases will be offered and the impasse will be lifted. “In theory it’s a ‘not lose, not

lose’ situation, and it’s okay to go away from [these discussions]

Union nears agreementBy Sarah StrohmayerStaff Writer

In response to the Occupy Wall Street movement, a two-hour teach-in was held in the Ira Allen Chapel on Oct. 24.

the Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, involved a forum of graduate students, professors and guest speakers that focused on progressive issues ranging from the origin of currency to the rise of income inequality.

minute speech on economic issues that have been brought up by the recent Occupy protests and focused on direct responses to the issues at large. Afterward, attendees joined speakers in smaller groups to discuss and propose solutions.“This teach-in is a share

Erickson, managing director of the Gund Institute. “The broader public is demanding

The event was originally developed by students at the Gund Institute who wanted

to provide knowledge to the general public in response to the escalading economic protests, Erickson said.“We talk about these issues

all the time and we simply wanted to offer more education

Witham, a graduate student at the Rubenstein school and a Gund Institute fellow. The students originally

proposed a teach-in in New York City with a “dress-

in the event grew substantially as the protests expanded, said Erickson.“Inspired by this call,

people around the country should get together at events

graduate student and Gund Institute fellow.Erickson said that the

student body are currently working on bringing the teach-in to New York City and will continue to open discussions on current economic issues with the Burlington community.

Economic teach-in heldBy Chris ScottStaff Writer

Dissent.

!ree di"erent groups meet in response to a national call to

action by leaders of the Occupy movement. Pictured: United

Academics, Occupy Burlington and the Internationl Social-ist Organization crying out

against perceived injustice on Nov. 2.

More to come in Issue 11...

NEWS2 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

SALLY MCCAY UVM CommunicationsFrom left: Barry Stone, class of ‘56;; Donald McCree, class of ‘86;; and Interim President John

Bramley at the UVM Foundation board meeting in the Davis Center this October.

Tropical Storm Irene may be a thing of the past for some peo-ple, but for those living in many parts of Vermont the storm is still a part of their daily lives.

Cleanup Day took place on Oct. 22. The event was designed to en-courage volunteers from across the state to help victims of Irene recover and get their homes be-fore winter, according to the Ver-mont Cleanup Day website.Though many students at

UVM are not native Vermonters, members of the UVM communi-ty still participated in the efforts to help communities across the state.“We had over 80 students,

faculty and staff participate last Saturday,” said Danielle Jenkins, a senior and Irene outreach co-ordinator. “We had several vol-unteers sign up as individuals, but lots of groups turned out as well. The groups with the highest participation were Black Student Union, the gymnastics team and the Rubenstein [school].”Jenkins said she viewed

UVM’s participation efforts as a success, especially given how quickly it was put together.“The communities we worked

with expressed sincere grati-tude, and they were genuinely impressed with how enthusiastic our volunteers were,” Jenkins said.On Saturday, UVM volun-

teers were sent to three separate

communities across Vermont. Rochester, West Woodstock and Bethel all received UVM assis-tance, Jenkins said. The days’ activities included

working with individual home-owners and along riverbanks in Rochester, ruined insulation and debris removal in West Wood-stock and silt removal at Peavine Park in Bethel, Jenkins said.Professor Jay Ashman took a

bus with 25 people from the Uni-versity to Peavine Park.

“We dug out around trees, picnic tables and benches so that the heavy equipment could come in. We also cleared leaves and brush from the park,” Ashman said.The park is one that many

people in the Bethel community use for a variety of events, Ash-man said.“A lot of weddings, birthday

parties and graduation events

[take place in the park],” Ash-man said. “I had been looking for a way to help with Irene recovery efforts and it was really nice to be able to do it in the company of other UVM people.”Some students were unable to

participate in the event but said that they appreciated the efforts of those who did.“I’m impressed by the amount

of people who want to do some-thing to help,” junior John Mark Brigham said. “I give my support to those who are helping, but be-ing at college and not having a car makes it hard for me to partici-pate.”The transportation concern

seemed to be a common issue among students.“I received a bunch of emails

about Vermont Cleanup Day, but I don’t think there was enough information about transporta-tion in regard to this event,” ju-nior Mike Webb said. “I think the lack of cars really de-motivated people from helping.”Because interest in Ver-

mont Cleanup Day was so well-received, more days are being planned to help further the re-covery efforts for those affected by Irene.“Right now we are in the plan-

ning stages for two more days of service on Nov. 12 and Nov. 16,” Jenkins said. “Registration will go live online early next week. Everyone should keep an eye on their inbox for more informa-tion.”

Students and staff clean for VermontVolunteers meet to help with aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene By Lauren Drasler

Staff Writer

“I had been looking for a way to help with Irene recovery efforts and it was really nice

to be able to do it in the company of other

UVM people.”

Jay AshmanCDAE professor

A new institute is hoping to bring international relations and environmentalism closer togeth-er. The Institute for Environ-

mental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS), located in the Jeffords Building, is a research center that focuses on techniques to end en-

to the IEDS website.The environmental issues

that the institute will focus on are very important to national secu-rity and can be used to resolve disputes, said Saleem Ali, profes-sor of environmental studies and director of IEDS.“The environment is, in

many ways, an issue of common aversion,” Ali said. “If it gets de-stroyed, everyone suffers.”IEDS was created last year

and an inaugural conference was held on the weekend of Oct. 21, according to University Commu-nications.The goal of the conference

was to bring together members of different environmental back-grounds and get them to talk through their differences and have better conversations about environmental issues, Ali said.The event was successful and

had about 100 participants from all over the world, he said.Some of the notable attend-

ees included: Richard Benedick, president of the National Council on Science and the Environment;; Matt Dunne, manager of com-

munity relations for the Google Corporation;; and Tariq Banuri, director of the U.N.’s sustainable development division, according to University Communications.Now that the conference has

ended, the next goal for IEDS is

base since the current budget is temporary, Ali said.

The IEDS has already gained -

nies such as the Tiffany & Com-pany Foundation, who gave the Institute a $200,000 grant over two years.“The IEDS has received [the]

grant to consider ways of linking environmental conservation to sustainable livelihoods in island economies using pearl farming,” according to University Commu-nications.

New institute opensIEDS to evaluate environmental and political relations in global By Sarah Leidinger

Staff Writer

“The environment is, in many ways,

an issue of common aversion. If it gets

destroyed, everyone suffers.”

Saleem AliProfessor of environmental

studies and director of IEDS

By Becky Hayes

Assistant News Editor

Crime log

Alcohol was con!scated from UVM students in Austin Hall on Oct. 22.

A laptop computer was stolen from a locker in the Bailey/Howe Library on Oct. 25.

There was a report of a possible stolen computer being used in the Cyber Café, but it as not located on Oct. 24.

Marijuana and drug-related objects were con!scated from two people who were not students in the Votey parking lot on Oct. 24.

Items belonging to a UVM student were stolen from a display case in the Davis Center Tunnel on Oct. 22.

Theft

Alcohol/drugs

A faulty water valve broke and released water into a science laboratory room causing some property damage to equipment in the Cook Building on Oct. 22.

Suspicious events

A backpack containing cash and a laptop computer was stolen at the Fleming Museum on Oct. 22.

A UVM alumnus and his fam-ily have donated $1 million to the University to be used for scholar-ships. Donald McCree, class of ‘83,

announced he was making the donation at the annual Scholar-ship Luncheon held during Re-union and Homecoming Week-end in October.The gift will be split equally

between UVM’s general scholar-ship fund and the McCree Fam-ily Scholarship Fund, which was created in 2006 when the family donated $500,000.During the announcement,

McCree cited his strong admira-

tion for UVM as the motivation for his generosity. “Simply said, I just love this

place,” McCree said. Additionally, McCree said he

hopes his gift will inspire others to support UVM. The timing of his donation was intended to draw attention to the newly formed UVM Foundation, according to Richard Bundy, president and CEO of the foundation.McCree is CEO of Treasury

Services for JPMorgan Chase, and is a member of the Foun-dation’s Board of Directors and serves on the Finance and Invest-ment Committee.The UVM Foundation is a

is “to secure and manage private

-versity of Vermont,” Bundy said in an email.Under the new framework,

the UVM Foundation will handle all private donations, instead of

University’s General Fund. By streamlining this process,

Bundy says that donations will be -

head costs will decrease dramati-cally.The Foundation was ap-

proved by the Board of Trustees in March 2010 and was recog-

-nal Revenue Service in Septem-ber 2011. The Foundation will begin receiving gifts on January 1, 2012, Bundy said.

Alum gives $1 millionStaff Writer

Hopes to inspire others to donate for scholarships

NEWS 3THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Debt from federal loan pro-grams is piling higher and higher for students everywhere. By the end of 2011, the total

amount owed on outstanding student loans will reach an un-precedented $1 trillion, accord-ing to a report by USA Today. In 2010 alone, total student

borrowing crossed the $100 bil-lion mark, the report stated.On average, the amount of

money that full-time under-graduate students borrow rose 63 percent from a decade ear-lier, from $1,836 per student to $4,963, according to the report. Compounding the problem

is the increasing number of stu-

dents in default — those more than nine months behind on payments — which rose from 6.7 percent in 2007 to 8.8 percent in 2009, according to the most re-cent federal data. The highest recorded default

cater to lower-income students, the report stated.The University of Phoenix

school. The majority of that mon-ey comes from student loans.The USA Today report stated

that Americans now owe more on student loans than on credit cards, citing the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. De-partment of Education and pri-vate sources.

$1 trillion in the redBy Mat DeganStaff Writer

The Vermont Cynic has won college journalism’s top prize.The Pacemaker award, given

out annually by the Associated Collegiate Press, recognizes the best newspapers in the United States, according to their web-site.More then 20,000 students

are staffed at ACP member pub-lications.The Cynic is the only non-

daily Pacemaker winner that does not have a degree program in journalism and/or a journal-ism department.The award acknowledges The

Cynic’s efforts from the 2010-2011 academic year, which began under the leadership of former Editor-in-Chief Haylley Johnson and former Managing Editor El-liot deBruyn and ended under Editor-in-Chief Natalie DiBlasio and Managing Editor Jeff Ayers.“I’ve watched my friends

work so hard for this paper,” Johnson said. “Finally, their hard work — this team’s hard work — has become a nationally recog-nized reality.”Johnson said that The Cynic

has changed dramatically since

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er, editors were doing their own layout and we had a skeleton of a website,” she said. “Now we have a layout team, a great website and training.” deBruyn said that the news of

The Cynic’s win came as a total shock.“When Natalie [DiBlasio]

told me [about the award] I was driving,” deBruyn said. “I had to pull the car over.”deBruyn said that in his time

with the paper, he has seen an upward trend in journalistic in-tegrity and responsibility to the community.“Everything that needs to

make a paper happen … is hap-pening,” he said. The Cynic newsroom is a

great training ground, and stu-dents have the chance to work in a professional environment, said Chris Evans, student media adviser and assistant director of student life. The award means that young

journalists at UVM are doing their jobs well, he said. But they always seek to improve.“As the students on staff

know, the paper is not always perfect,” Evans said. “But the goal is to work toward perfection. The staff work their tails off for their paper. And it shows.”

Paper takes awardVermont Cynic wins ACP Pacemaker By Brent SummersNews Editor

MICHAEL CHAUCER-TORELLO The Vermont CynicFormer Managing Editor Elliot deBruyn and former Editor-in-

Chief Haylley Johnson present the Pacemaker Award on Nov. 2.

The CynicTime Machine

Nov. 14, 1925

The Story: Number of in-state students at UVM drop to new lows. 74.7

percent of students were from Vermont.

Within two minutes, the glass cover was removed and Ryan Little’s items from his tour as a Marine in Afghanistan were wrapped into a black sweatshirt and stolen.On Oct. 22 at 11:06 p.m., a

man walked into the Davis Cen-ter tunnel and removed items from a display case that was ad-vertising Veterans Day, accord-ing to police. Much of the stolen items belong to junior and vet-eran Ryan Little.“Honestly, it doesn’t surprise

me,” Little said. “It took like two seconds for him to pop the glass off. I’m lucky I didn’t put my medals in there.”The stolen items include

three large carabiners, a canteen and Marine- and Navy-issued hats.SGA Sen. Katie Rifken said

the cases have been broken into in the past.“There are missing keys, peo-

ple can lift the glass off the case,” Rifken said. “These were people’s priceless possessions, pieces of people’s lives.”Melody Walker works at Stu-

dent Life and helps manage the display cases.“The glass has been removed

before, mostly for people putting up their own advertising,” Walk-er said. “However, I would have never thought that this would happen.”Walker said a man came into

Oct. 22 or Oct. 25 and asked her

about the Veterans Collaboration Organization (VCO) display case.“He asked who owns the case,

who owns the stuff inside the case,” she said. “He wasn’t mem-orable, but instead of talking to SGA he just left … it was weird.”Police said Wednesday

they are following “substantial leads,” according to Sgt. Daniel Finnegan. Along with the securi-ty footage of that shows the man stealing the items and a possible eyewitness, Little said the police may be closing in on the suspect.“They’re moving in on the

guy,” Little said in a text, but po-

Little is president of VCO, a group of student-veterans on campus the organize events like the Nov. 11 Veterans Day ceremo-nies.

Professors will send satellite probe to the moon

Police looking for suspect who took army gear from glass case

One small step for man, one giant leap for UVM.Professors at the University

are researching technologies to send a 10-centimeter Cube Satel-lite (CubeSat) into space to orbit the moon, according to Univer-sity Communications.UVM is working in collabora-

tion with Norwich College, Saint Michael’s College and Vermont Technical College to develop the

launch in 2014, professor Jun Yu said.“Our ultimate goal is to de-

velop a triple CubeSat capable of reaching lunar orbit and possible conducting a lunar landing,” Yu

said.-

strument produced in Vermont and put into space, which is cool,” Yu said. “It is a very exciting proj-ect — eventually you get to see your project take off.”Graduate student Gregg

Carpenter is also thrilled about Vermont’s developing space re-search.“We see it as a really impor-

tant opportunity, not only for Vermont research but the United States space program,” Carpenter said.Cube-Satellites will provide a

general platform for inexpensive space exploration and robotic systems that can explore space without humans being in full re-

al-time control, he said.Professor Jeff Frolik works

on the project by developing sen-sors and robotic systems for the CubeSats.“The CubeSats have wireless

sensors which can be deployed on ground,” Frolik said. “They act based on what things on the ground tell them.”CubeSats are small and inex-

pensive to make. This allows re-searchers to send multiple Cube-Sats into orbit, Frolik said.“All of the colleges have one

common theme, and we are do-ing things that compliment each other,” he said. “If we are all rela-tively successful independently, then the hope is that we collec-tively can succeed.”

By Natalie WilliamsStaff Writer

By Elliot deBruyn Senior Staff Writer

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NEWS4 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The nurses at Fletcher Allen are up in arms over administra-tive “golden parachutes.” The extensive severance

packages and executive salaries of the administration while tech-nicians, nurses and other work-ers are experiencing a pay freeze has led to frustrated members of the Fletcher Allen Health Care community.“Top executives receive in-

creases of 73 percent in one year, and the administration demands pay freezes from us,” said Karen Magnant, Flether Allen Health Care ophthalmology technician. “The message from interim

CEO Dr. Brumsted is clear: belt tightening for people on the front lines and bonuses for those on boards,” Magnant said. The debate was sparked over

a rumored severance package for CEO Melinda Estes, who left Fletcher Allen for a top position at Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, according to VTDig-ger.org.Mike Noble, who works at

Fletcher Allen, denied the rumor of Estes’ severance package. “Dr. Estes received no money

in a severance package – $0,” he said. Although this “golden para-

chute” did not exist, registered nurse Mari Cordes brought at-

tention more broadly to compen-sation distribution and respect deserved among hospital work-ers. “The main point of worker

upset [is] that huge amounts of money is directed toward top-heavy compensation for admin-istration,” Cordes said. “[This] leaves a really bad taste in work-ing family’s mouths, when they are the ones that provide the high-quality services that give our institutions a good name.”

Cordes urged Fletcher Allen executives to treat its workers equally and to focus their energy on the quality of services instead of raises and pay restrictions. “Let’s stop wasting time and

money and get back to using hospital resources for patient

300 hardworking staff take a pay freeze next year,” Cordes said.

A new club called UVM Push Culture (UVMPC) may be rolling across campus soon.Students have been collabo-

rating to create the skate club, which will organize a community of skateboarders and longboad-ers at UVM and promote safe rid-ing.“The club will most impor-

we longboard, which is to get out-side and have fun,” said Laura Friedland, a junior and president of UVMPC.

year Isabel Lazarus and junior Harrison Wolf, has been working diligently throughout the semes-ter to create a constitution that can be presented to Risk Man-agement and the SGA, she said.She said the skate club initia-

tive has been in the making for a while.“I’ve been thinking about

making a club since freshman year,” Friedland said. “It’s funny, because it seems like everyone I talk to has said, ‘I was wondering when someone was going to do that.’”The club will provide a way

for skaters of all different levels and experience to come together for group rides and to escape the daily stresses of college, she said.“As a club, we will be able to

put on events around campus that will be a lot of fun to watch and participate in,” Friedland said. “It is a great way to show-case our skills and hopefully en-courage other people to try skat-ing.”On Oct. 29, UVMPC held an

event to promote their club, raise money and involve all interested skaters in contests and activities.The club also hopes to en-

courage safe riding around cam-pus.UVMPC will enforce helmet

use when riding and will teach safety clinics to make skating a

more enjoyable experience for all on campus, Friedland said.

“We want to emphasize the unity among longboarders, skate-boarders and the greater UVM community,” Friedland said. “By creating a club, I think we can only strengthen the student body here at UVM.”

Not healthy

New club wants to board

By Amanda SherwoodStaff Writer

By Samantha SawyerStaff Writer

Nurses speak out about administration concerns

UVM Push Culture to include all skaters, longboarders

“Let’s stop wasting time and money and

get back to using hospital resources for

patient care.”Mari Cordes

Registered nurse at Fletcher Allen

“We want to emphasize the unity

among longboarders, skateboarders and

the greater UVM community.”

Laura FriedlandJunior

NATALIE WILLIAMS The Vermont CynicFirst-year Jack Phinney rides his mini cruiser longboard to class on Oct. 27. Phinney is part of the ef-

fort of UVMPC to try to start a longboarding club on campus.

Student Government Asso-ciation Sen. Connor Daley has gained the support of SGA to cre-ate what he calls the 2020 Initia-tive.The purpose of the 2020 Ini-

tiative is to get student input on administrative education projects and is seeking to create a student academic vision that parallels the Strategic Initiative Project (SIP), Daley said.The SIP, headed by Provost

Jane Knodell, will address the need for a sustainable, long-term

according to University Commu-nications. “It provides a framework for

students to go forward,” Daley said.The 2020 Initiative will pro-

vide a framework for students to voice what they consider to be the academic needs of the University by the year 2020, Daley said.“It’s hard for the administra-

tion to gauge student opinion, so having [the 2020 Initiative] would help better the relation-ship [between students and the administration],” he said. Daley said he has been ad-

dressing students groups and clubs on campus to get the word out about the project.This whole initiative is being

made so that the administration knows what the students want, he said. The three questions Daley

has been asking students are why they chose UVM, what they think the emerging academic strengths of UVM are and what the stu-dents want their degree to mean once they graduate. Daley has gained the support

of SGA’s Academic Affairs Com-mittee, of which he is a member.“I think that Connor’s 2020

initiative asks a really good ques-tion,” Chair Gavin Caster said. “What’s a potential student vision for UVM’s academics in 2020, and what are the strengths we

have that could get us there?”“I think the conversations

we’ve had as a committee have been very helpful in trying to an-swer that question,” Caster said.Daley said that he is happy

with the suggestions that stu-dents have made so far. Daley plans to present the

document to the Faculty Senate by Dec. 6 if it is approved by SGA on Nov. 6.

SGA looks to the futureBy Natalie WilliamsStaff Writer

“What’s a potential student vision for

UVM’s academics in 2020, and what are the strengths we have that

could get us there?”Gavin Caster

Student Activities Committee Chair

NEWS 5THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Several alumni were pre-sented with achievement awards from the UVM Alumni Associa-tion during Homecoming week-end on Oct. 15One of the recipients was

John Dineen. A graduate of the class of ‘86, Dineen landed a po-sition with General Electric as a telecommunications engineer in Rockville, Md. He has now been with the

company for 25 years, steadily rising through the ranks to his current position as CEO of GE Healthcare. According to their website,

GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of the General Electric Com-pany. GE Healthcare has more than 46,000 employees and serves customers in over 100 countries. “GE Healthcare’s broad

range of products and services enable healthcare providers,” the GE website stated.Another winner was Bruce

Rockowitz, class of ‘80. Rockow-itz is group president and chief

Hong Kong. He is also the owner and

chairman of Pure Group, a life-style and restaurant chain with more than 20 locations world-wide. After his time at UVM, Rock-

owitz moved to Hong Kong to be-

come a professional tennis player and coach for what was planned to be a short-term stint. He never came back. “I took some time off from

college to play and teach tennis, and I thought I would do it for about six months and go back to schooI, Rockowitz said in an interview with the Bloomberg news service. “I ended up being in Hong Kong 32 years.” While there, he was able to

get to know the power players of Hong Kong and went into busi-ness with Alan Zeeman. “When I was teaching tennis

I was at the Hong Kong country club, which is the who’s who of HK,” he said. “Almost everybody important was either my student or a member and I knew them.” Rockowitz said that through

hard work and dedication, he has had immense business success. “We used to literally work

seven days a week,” he said. “An -

ish and we never took a day off. And this went on for a number of years.” Rockowitz recently married

and Tim Thomas, both from the class of ‘97, also won achieve-ment awards. While at UVM, Thomas

helped lead the Catamounts to

Thomas was also on the Bos-ton Bruins when they won the Stanley Cup in 2011.

The Board of Trustees has approved a new deal to extend UVM’s international reach.Vice President for Enrollment

in front of the board to advocate a one-year renewal of the US-Sino Pathway Program, in which Kaplan in China and Northeast-ern University will partner with UVM. “Can we continue to be a high-

degree university with a 1.4 per-cent international enrollment?

The US-Sino Pathway Pro-gram brings academically prom-ising Chinese students to several universities in the states. The pro-gram has increased international enrollment at UVM from 0.6 per-cent two years ago to 1.4 percent this year. “When you look at other na-

tionally ranked universities, their international enrollment ranges from 5 to 11 percent,” he said.

was enacted, in the summer of 2010, 28 students were brought from China. Of those students, 23 made it to the second semes-ter, with an accumulative GPA of 2.63.This summer, 37 students

were brought in from China, of which 36 made it to the second semester. One was dismissed because of academic dishonesty, and two more joined from North-

eastern University during the Summer Bridge Program.The students have been very

promising: one student at the College of Engineering and Math-ematical Sciences with a 3.84 GPA, one student in the Honors College, another being inducted into the Engineering Honors So-ciety, six students from the School

even two SGA senators. “We have monitored their

“How are they integrating in the University, Burlington and in the U.S.? How are their professors and staff interacting with the stu-dents? We talked to faculty and staff,

who have been thankful that we are seeking international enroll-ment, he said.But there remains a lot of

improvement from Kaplan and Northeastern University. “We want an improved the

system of recruit so we have a -

sociate Provost Gayle Nunley said. “We are looking for ways to advance international presence while keeping our options open.”The program will now begin

to scout students from Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia;; after the Board of Trustees approved the one-year contract with North-eastern University and Kaplan. “Our goal is to prepare the

students to be on track towards their degree,” Nunley said. “We want to recruit students [that]

are not already at a high degree of English but can get there.”

-mont would include courses in English/college writing and ex-ploring America, to help prepare students adjust to American life. Some students said that the

US-Sino Pathway Program has opened many opportunities for the students enrolled.“The major reason [I came]

was to experience the real Amer-ica. To learn things that you

Ziyi Peng said. “Not just the cur-riculum, but the way people are. Americans have many adven-tures, [and] I hope to learn from them.”“My favorite class here is Eng-

lish,” Peng said. “We can share our own ideas and learn many [more] new ideas from others that

you can’t always do in China.” More students want an inter-

by your interactions with people around the globe. “We aren’t doing the best to

provide the best education for our students.”

Alums awarded

International students wanted

By Tyler Hastings

Senior Staff Writer

By Kevin Santamaria

Staff Writer

Achievements recognized by UVM

US-Sino Pathway Program is expanded for next academic year

ELLIOT DEBRUYN The Vermont CynicFirst-year Ziyi Peng outside the Bailey/Howe Library Nov. 1. He was a participant in the US-Sino

Pathway Program this past summer.

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LIFE6 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

In a discussion organized by College Democrats, Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke about current is-sues that the United States’ econ-omy is facing. Sanders is the longest serv-

ing Independent in Congress, and currently represents the state of Vermont as one of its’ senators, leader of the College Democrats Brittany Nevins said in her intro-duction.He is known for defending

the interests of the working class, Nevins said. Sanders spoke about the importance of engaging young people in the democratic process.“This country faces enormous

problems,” Sanders said. “I think it is imperative that we put these problems on the table to analyze and dissect them and say ‘where do we go from here?’”

changes that the country has faced recently and the impor-tance of young people in working to change these problems. Sanders described the current

state of our country’s economy as the worst recession since the Great Depression. The generation that college

-eration in modern times to have a lower standard of living than their parents, he said. One point that Sanders

strongly emphasized is the differ-

ence in the unemployment rate that is printed in newspapers and spoken about from the actual un-employment rate.He said that the unemploy-

ment rate that is currently talked about, 9 percent, does not in-clude those that aren’t employed because they gave up looking for work. If you include those people, Sanders said the rate is actually 16 percent. Sanders spoke about how this

unemployment rate also relates to declining median family in-come, causing the poverty rate to increase. He said that 25 percent of children get nutrition from food stamps.He said that while a great deal

of the country is in poverty, the people on top are doing phenom-enally well. “The top 1 percent earns more

income than the bottom 50 per-cent,” Sanders said.

The 400 richest people in the country own more wealth than the bottom 150 million people, he added. Along with the huge gap be-

tween the rich and the poor, the health insurance problem in this country is also great, Sanders said.There are 50 million people in

the U.S. that do not have health insurance, and we are the only nation in the industrial world that

does not guarantee health care, he said. Currently, there is a proposed

health insurance program that would cover everyone living in Vermont as a right. If passed, this program would

be a cost-effective way to get rid of private insurance companies, he said. Sanders’ last main point in-

volved the problem of the expen-sive education system currently in place in our country. Many European countries do

not put a price on education be-cause “they want the best-educat-

he said. He added that these countries may not be crazy for giving out free education to their citizens.Sophomore Frances Russell

came to the discussion because he is a big fan of Bernie, he said. Russell said that he admires Sanders and thought that the biggest problem Sanders talked about was the overall economic situation of our country.Sanders does not just have

supporters and followers from Vermont. Continuing education student Mark Kelly, who is from Tennessee, came to hear Sanders speak because he said he was cu-rious to hear about the economy. “What he said makes a lot of

sense,” Kelly said. “A lot of it is very depressing.”

Town hall meeting focuses on current issues in the U.S. economySen. Bernie Sanders engages UVMBy Jordanna GoodmanSenior Staff Writer

COURTESY OF BERNIE SANDERSSGA Sen. Gavin Caster, chair of the Academic Affairs Committee, asks U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders a

question during Sanders’ Town Meeting in the Davis Center’s Sugar Maple Ballroom on Oct. 27.

Rampant jokes about the G.O.P and anti-feminism popu-lated the stand-up show of politi-cal satirist and co-creator of “The Daily Show” Lizz Winstead on Oct. 29.The show was part of Win-

stead’s “Planned Parenthood, I’m Here for You!” tour. The comedy was geared toward women but did not solely concern women’s issues.

All the proceeds from the event went toward local Planned

-inski, Planned Parenthood public affairs director for Vermont, said in an Oct. 12 press release.Winstead’s tour comes

from her concern for attacks on Planned Parenthood, which she has longstanding support for.“Women’s health has be-

come the number one focus of the radical right — even worse, it has been reduced to a bargain-ing chip,” Winstead said in the press release. “If creating jobs is the number one priority for poli-ticians in this country, why are they so focused on my uterus? My uterus doesn’t create jobs, in fact it no longer even does the one job it’s supposed to!” Winstead cracked jokes on

many prominent Republican politicians and presidential can-didates who want to harm the ef-forts of Planned Parenthood.“Republicans are talking

about reducing abortions by out-lawing contraception.” Winstead said. “What kind of world is this? [One] where you’ve got unicorns and abstinence?” Winstead joked about her

Vermont crowd. “I thought I’d come here

and you guys would power the lightings with your bicycles … I expected that all of your pants would have zippers at the knee in case there was ever a sudden hik-ing trip,” she said.After the stand-up portion

of the event, Winstead read an excerpt from her book coming

described her experience as a -

nant. Contributing information:

Michael De Sousa, Staff Writer.

Wit finds purposeLizz Winstead is ‘here for you’By Katie IdaLife/Features Editor

“What kind of world is this?

[One] where you’ve got unicorns and

abstinence?”Lizz Winstead

Political satirist

LIFE 7THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011

J-pop is a sensation that’s sweeping the world — or at least Eastern countries. But J-pop is making a splash at UVM by occu-pying its own niche. Every other Wednesday night in the Living/Learning Center, J-pop enthusi-asts rehearse Japanese pop music with piano accompanist Megumi Esselstrom, a former music teacher in Japan. J-pop is a term coined by the

Japanese radio station J-Wave and was used to refer to the old term “New Music.” J-pop took its initial inspiration from The Bea-tles and then covers of Western songs, according to the Asia Fin-est website.Eventually they developed

their own music style using West-

said that an element of “playful-ness” was added to Japanese mu-sic. The J-pop term is now used in reference to all popular songs from Japan including pop, rap, rock, R&B and dance music, ac-cording to the website.During the biweekly meetings

members take on the role of sing-ers. In their practice room the J-pop club members sit in concen-tration while rehearsing songs and looking intently at their mu-sic. The music they are given

consists of Japanese characters without English translation;; the singers must translate the lyr-ics themselves or look them up. Many of the members of the club said that they are Asian studies

or Japanese majors who want to practice reading and speaking Japanese.

Samantha DiPietro said about the song the club was currently work-ing on. DiPietro said that this par-ticular song was roughly about a toilet goddess and that part of the joy in Japanese pop music is that it does not have to be serious. When members of the club

were asked how they discovered J-pop they said mostly through friends’ suggestions or sifting through YouTube link after You-Tube link and deciding by trial

and error what music they liked. “You don’t think that other

people around you know it, but they do,” junior Grace Stanford said. She said she recalled last week

hearing J-pop coming through a neighbor’s door as she walked down her residence hall. J-pop is slowly becoming

popular in Asia, along with K-Pop, Korean pop said one club member after their rehearsal. Another member suggested

the song “Sanctuary” by Utada Hikaru for people who have never heard Japanese pop. If you

like what you hear, just follow the maze of related YouTube videos from there.

Japanese pop sounds find a niche in Living/LearningJ-pop mixes learning, music

After a long two weeks of midterms, I decided to visit the cozy, warm environ-ment that Halverson’s offers. I sampled some seasonal beers on tap and tried out their Cali-fornia burger. Melted cheese, bacon and av-ocado? Does it get any better?

Tucked away at the top of Church Street, Halverson’s is Wednes-day’s best kept secret, because there’s almost always a wait any other day of the week. It’s perfect for a first date, or a relaxing night out with your friends. And nothing goes better together than some comfort food and ro-bust seasonal ales.

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Bikers and longboarders had the chance to stop by the Bailey/Howe green to purchase helmets from local bike shops at dis-counted prices on Oct. 21.Local Motion, a Burlington

area organization promoting safe recreation and transportation throughout Vermont communi-ties, works alongside of the Safe Streets Collaborative, which is a campaign to reduce accidents throughout the county by en-couraging safer behavior, accord-ing to the Local Motion website.After several incidences of

injuries due to the absence of helmets, UVM Police Services expressed their concerns about student safety to Education and Safety Manager Jason Van Dri-esche at Local Motion, Van Dri-esche said. Following many phone calls

and emails, UVM in partnership with Local Motion, Fletcher Allen Health Care and all the bike and board shops in town were able to organize a way to make helmets more affordable to students, Van Driesche said.North Star Sports, Skirack

and Earl’s Cyclery collaborated with the Inter-Residence Asso-

of Sustainability, Police Services and Transportation and Parking Services to give several students

were discounted helmets. Hel-mets regularly priced from $45-$60 were available for $10-$20.Senior Maggie Druschel said

she worries about the safety of students riding without helmets and is excited about the bike safety event.“I love it,” Druschel said. “I

ride with a helmet all the time and I worry about other people getting hurt.”The Bike Users Group (BUG),

in cooperation with the Old Spokes Home, set up alongside the retailers to offer safety checks on bikes free of charge. BUG member Daniel Yablon-

sky said goals of the organiza-tions to increase the number of bike users on campus as well as bike accessibility. In an effort to promote these

intentions, BUG is hosting their

11 from 6-9 p.m. at Maglianero Café. They will be auctioning off a

vintage bike as well as bike gear and much more, according to

The BUG Bike Shop is open Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.–2 p.m. and is located in the loading dock area of the Davis Center, Yablonsky said.

Injuries inspire ‘riding’ protectedSafety gets cheap on campusBy Calla Abrunzo

Staff Writer

By Hannah Ullman

Staff Writer

“You don’t think that other people

around you know it, but they do.”Grace Stanford

Junior

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL CHAUCER-TORELLOThe Vermont Cynic

8 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011 ARTS

I play air drums. Perhaps

you’ve seen me around Burling-

ton with bigger-than-my-head

headphones on, beating the

shit out of nothing at all. I don’t

consider this a guilty pleasure,

it’s just something I do and have

very little control over.

What you probably don’t

know, and perhaps can’t even

comprehend, is that when I’m

doing this, I’m most likely listen-

ing to Counting Crows. Maybe

Matchbox 20, depending on my

mood.

If you’ve read my column be-

fore, you know that I don’t write

about this sort of music and

don’t write like someone who

would even consider listening

to, let alone writing about, these

kinds of bands. If you haven’t

read my column, do yourself a

favor.

I’m telling you all of this

because I’d like to discuss the

concept of “guilty pleasures” and

to dispel any shame you might

have about yours.

Surely people have their own

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sure is, what the concept means

to them and how it makes them

feel.

I’ll leave it for you to dis-

cuss with your friends all of the

subtleties that combine to pro-

duce guilt — you don’t have to

tell them about “that one Train

song” that you love if you don’t

want to — and hope that we all

have a relatively similar under-

standing of the term.

Americans know a thing or

two about guilt. Our country was

practically founded on the idea

that this excruciating emotion

makes one a worthy citizen and

human being, and we continue

to live within its merciless grip

hundreds of years later.

Guilt, I’m prepared to ar-

gue, constitutes the core of our

American personalities. It is this

guilt that determines our actions

and triggers our often reckless

reactions.

This guilt extends to our eat-

ing habits, our sexual fetishes,

our taste for blockbuster cinema

and our hush-hush love of Deli-

lah. We’re living it, so we might

as well embrace it, right?

Guilty pleasures are sources

of comfort that we don’t have the

vocabulary — or perhaps even

the ability — to describe and ex-

plain to others.

For this reason, we’ve

stopped trying to communicate

our most sincere passions, musi-

cal and otherwise, to others and

have opted to live with them in

the backs of our closets and un-

der our mattresses.

As a generation in a never-

ending state of turmoil, our

guilty pleasures provide us with

the majority of the reassurance

available to us.

Now don’t get me wrong, I

think Bob Dylan is one of the

most provocative and mind-

blowing songwriters of all time

— is that an overstatement? —

and Van Morrison never fails to

inspire me in a million different

ways. But when a bad day gets

worse, I want nothing less than

to listen to those dudes.

It is for this reason that

Adam Duritz, front man of the

Counting Crows, is up there

with the very best on my top 10

list of songwriters. And I’m not

ashamed.

I truly believe that, at least

when it comes to music, people’s

guilty pleasures make them hap-

pier than anything they openly

admit to loving.

You can pretend you only

sing along to the “bad” radio with

your friends because y’all are so

funny, but you know you love it.

And your friends love it.

And I want you to know that

I love it, too.

And so does Mr. Jones.

I’m not ashamed, and you

shouldn’t be either.

Music review

SEAN HOOD

On guilty pleasures

I truly believe that, at least when it comes to music, people’s guilty pleasures make them happier than anything they can openly admit

to loving.

Festival presents unique filmsFilm festival shows 79 films, has student competitionBy Natalie SlackStaff Writer

This year marked the 26th an-

niversary of the Vermont Interna-

tional Film Festival, making it the

oldest environmental and human

The festival took place from

Oct. 21-30 and was screened at its

as well as at several new venues

which include the FlynnSpace,

North End Studios, the Essex

Cinemas and UVM’s own Flem-

ing Museum.

“Everything about the festival

was amazing,” Deb Ellis, presi-

dent of the Board of Directors

for the festival, said. “One thing

we really appreciated was the

amount of screenings we were

able to do at UVM this year. We

have a real desire to try to include

the UVM community even more

in the festival.”

The four major themes of this

year’s festival were food, bor-

ders and displacement, freedom

and liberty and Egyptian cinema

showcase.

screened over the course of the 10

days, and a wide variety of coun-

tries, including Egypt, Canada,

Cuba, Italy and France, were rep-

resented.

For Ellis, one of the highlights

of the festival was the collection

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Jiménez, she said.

“Because of the current em-

bargo against Cuba, travel be-

tween the two countries doesn’t

happen that often,” Ellis said.

“Being able to include these re-

a very special opportunity.” Jimé-

nez’s visit was sponsored by UVM

and made possible by the Ameri-

cas Media Initiative.

Another highlight of the festi-

-

tion “Sleepless in Burlington.”

the University of Vermont, Cham-

plain College, Saint Michael’s

College, Burlington College and

Middlebury College worked to-

with a strict set of guidelines.

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clude candy corn and an iconic

Burlington location, among other

requirements, and the competi-

tors were given only 24 hours to

complete the challenge.

“What an amazing learning

experience this was for the stu-

dents,” Ellis said.

“The results, presented in an

‘American Idol’-style showcase

featuring interactions among the

audiences, students and judges,

puts on display the creativity,

imagination and technical skills

of these, our next generation

from the festival’s website reads.

“The evening concludes with the

best actor, best actress and an au-

dience choice award.”

With classic elements and

new endeavors, the Vermont In-

ternational Film Festival com-

pleted another year of bringing a

the Vermont community.

COURTESY OF DEBORAH ELLISJuniors Kevin Barry (center middle) and Nate Park (center left) shoot a scene with other UVM students

in City Hall Park for the “Sleepless in Vermont” event during the Vermont International Film Festival.

“We have a real desire to try to include

the UVM community even more in the

festival.”

Deb EllisPresident of Board of

Directors

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“HERMAN CAIN HAS NEVER SEXUALLY HARASSED ANYONE. PERIOD. END OF STORY.”

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COLUMNISTS

We’ve got the freedom

Believe it or not, there are several unspoken collegiate

like this — thou shalt not spy

screen uninvited. How I broke this rule yesterday is, well, an interesting story.I was in class scribbling

-chase a pair of ski gloves, I was

you probably have uploaded photos of yourself, entered

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natural, right?According to a study con-

in 2010, 78 percent of teens “feel in control of their per-

pause before uploading certain

our generation appears to

prove it.

with using the Internet. In the 21st century, it is practically re-quired. But where we go wrong is in being overly trusting that whatever we put online will be safe.On Oct. 30, the BBC report-

ed that Britain’s intelligence agency was under cyber attack. Iain Lobban, the head of the

-tions Headquarters was quoted in The Economic Times as

be disturbing.”This occurrence is not

unique to the UK. Govern-

under siege by hackers, and are struggling to keep docu-

was broken into and, according

to the International Business

and other top-level institutions were hacked at one point in

If supposedly secure gov-

we say, less than professional conditions.The Internet is way cool,

healthy dose of suspicion when

buying, posting and download-ing things. If you are not sure whether to post a photo or give

usually better to walk away. At the very least, delete

anything online or on your

-titled “Halloween Debauchery.” Just a thought.

-western College to their student newspaper. The Southwestern College Sun

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not allowed to publish a paper be-

governing board face re-election

publish before the election,” said -

ulty adviser. “It’s outrageous, it’s

Agreed. College papers should

paper’s highest loyalty should be to the truth, not to the University president.

staff of The Sun and sincerely appreciate all the suffering they

speech — a right that our organi-

being on call. Your unwaver-ing support for us and our peers across the nation gives student

provide free legal advice, you give -

ate.The Cynic sincerely

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us to operate without fear of cen-sorship. It shows a true respect for

of the student body.

fortunate.

grow into an award-winning orga-nization and develop individually

Their transparency and ready -

is heard in greater proportion

The student body should

and a dedication to free speech.

Should you trust the Internet?

buisness administration major. She has been writing for The

Cynic since fall 2011.

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COLUMNISTS

Quick Opinions

Peyton RosenthalYou know you’re at a house party when you walk through the door and a waft of week-old Febreze and vomit hits you in

the face.

Bianca MohnDrinking from glass jars: cool until you drop one, which with all the steps on campus, is inevitable.

Max KriegerUh oh, the country had a big snow storm in October. Does this mean global warming is over? The Republicans were right all along!

Recently I’ve noticed a

trend;; there’s this fascination with people other than our-selves, outside the realm of our own lives. People have become concerned with the lives of the rich and famous, the known and wealthy merchandizers of today’s social hierarchy. People like Paris Hilton and

Kate Middleton are plastered on magazines and across head-lines. What just makes their lives so much more interest-ing?They seem to all be beauti-

ful and perfect people, aside from the occasional DUI or coke bust, yet these people are our idols. Hilton has her own line of perfume. Charlie Sheen has a new comedy tour that is sold out, besides the fact that reading his Tweets is also in-credibly entertaining, and free! But what happened to the

respectable celebrity, like the Elizabeth Taylor? She was an accomplished movie star, with seven, but she was talented, right? She’s in a whole different

league than people like Hilton or. Some people seem to think she deserves her fame more than reality starlets and F-list actors. This might not even be something worthwhile to consider.We should all recognize

that there are differences be-

tween Paris Hilton and Eliza-beth Taylor, between James Dean and Charlie Sheen. It’s important to understand Tay-lor was a talented actress with a passion for men, and Paris Hilton is merely a rich heiress with a bunch of great lawyers. Dean, who starred in just

death, was and still is a Hol-lywood icon. Sheen, a mildly talented actor with a successful career, has been a train wreck of late. He’s taken his rants and Tweeting to the extreme — he’s addicted to our attention.It isn’t so much that people

like Hilton and Sheen make us laugh at their stupidity, it’s the fact that we continue to watch and support them.

We feed their empire of power and only make them hungrier for more. All that should be recognized is that there is a difference between these two types of people. There are people trained

and meant to bring tears to our eyes, tears full of respect and wonder and there are people who make us appreciate our own lives by laughing at the incredulity of theirs.Clearly there are different

kinds — the designated actors, the reality stars, and then pub-lic personas. It’s all what you make of them really, our own selves, this popular culture, is what feeds and creates these people.

The Cynic

PEYTON ROSENTHAL

From James Dean to crazy Charlie Sheen

Herman Cain is a fan of brevity.The businessman-turned-

candidate has a penchant for answering complex questions with simple answers, adding

know he’s said all there is to say on the matter.“I’m 100 percent pro-life.

End of story.” “Herman Cain has never sexually harassed anyone. Period. End of story.” “The Cain Train takes the high road. End of story.”Among these simplistic

analyses was Cain’s assertion refusal to back down from remark he made in March that Planned Parenthood is is per-petuating a “planned genocide” of black people. Cain went on to say that

the that when Margaret Sanger created Planned Parenthood, the organization’s intitial purpose was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world,” and urged voters to “check their history.”Research by the nonpar-

tisan Guttmacher Institute disputes Cain’s assertion that the majority of Planned Par-enthood clinics were in black neighborhoods. A Guttmacher study found

that 63 percent of Planned Par-enthood clinics are in majority white neighborhoods, while just 9 percent are in majority black neighborhoods.

It is true that black women have abortions at much higher rates than white women, but Cain looks to this statistic as suggesting that Planned Parenthood is aggressively attempting to prevent blacks from reproducing, instead of looking at the larger problem. Inner-city black women

often do not have access to affordable contraception, and Planned Parenthood is often the only option these women have for family planning. Only 3 percent of Planned Paren-hood’s services are abortion;; the vast majority of services include counseling, sex educa-tion, and contraception.

Margaret Sanger was a sup-porter of reproductive rights for women, and opened the

in 1921. She was a supporter of negative eugenics, which discouraged people considered undesirable from reproducing. But eugenics and genocide

are not synonymous — though negative eugenics was a ratio-nale for the Holocaust, Sanger spoke out against euthanasia of those deemed undesirable to reproduce.And though Cain cor-

rectly pointed out that “Sanger founded one of the precursors to Planned Parenthood,” he failed to note that the clinic that Sanger opened was in a predominantly white neighbor-hood in Brooklyn.Though Margaret Sanger

played a large role in the cre-

ation of Planned Parenthood, it is not fair to blanketly equate her politics to that of the orga-nization in 2011. Cain grossly distorts the

mission of the reproductive rights movement in the United States — to provide contracep-tion so women can plan for their health and control when they have or don’t have chil-dren.PolitiFact, a website that re-

searches politician’s statements to determine their validity, gave Cain’s remarks about Sanger and Planned Parenthood it’s

Cain’s logic seems to be this: Margaret Sanger was racist, therefore Planned Par-enthood is racist. While that hastily drawn conclusion may satify conservatives voters, it

politics of Margaret Sanger 80 years ago with the practices of Planned Parenthood today.Cain’s fondness of tweet-

length analysis makes for great sound bites, but it shortchanges issues that deserve discussion, not one-liners. It’s also not a wise practice

to urge voters to check their history when after they’ll dis-cover you’re full of nonsense. The debate over reproduc-

tive rights cannot be summed up as succinctly as Cain would like, and his outright lies about the history and mission of Planned Parenthood prevents honest debate from occurring.Cain has proved to be

remarkably inconsistent as a candidate, and his irresponsible mischaracterization of an issue that affects half the popula-tion of this country makes him a poor choice for president. Period. End of story.

ZACH DESPART

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster. This is a tough time for a

lot of Americans — especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change. The world has gotten more connected, but it’s also gotten more competitive.For the last three years,

we’ve worked to stabilize the economy, and we’ve made some progress. And now, as you’re getting ready to head out into the world, many of you are watching your friends

work. You’re wondering what’s in store for your future, and I know that can be scary.At the University of Colo-

rado at Denver, I announced steps we’re taking to make college more affordable and to make it even easier for stu-dents like you to get out of debt

faster.Michelle and I know what it

feels like to leave school with a mountain of debt. By the time we both graduated from law school, we had about $120,000 worth of debt between us, which took almost 10 years to pay off. Living with that much debt

forces you to make some tough choices. And when a big chunk of every paycheck goes toward student loans, it isn’t just pain-ful for you — it’s painful to our economy and harmful to our recovery.That’s why we’re making

changes that will give about 1.6 million students the ability to cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their income starting next year. We’re also going to take

steps to help you consolidate your loans so that instead of making multiple payments to multiple lenders every month, you only have to make one payment a month at a better interest rate. We want to start giving

students a simple fact sheet called “Know Before You Owe”

so you can have all the infor-mation you need to make your own decision about paying for college.These changes will make a

real difference for millions of Americans. We’ll help more

afford college. We’ll put more money in your pocket after you graduate. And we’ll give our economy a boost at a time when it desperately needs it.That’s not just important

for our country right now — it’s important for our future. Michelle and I are where we are today because our college education gave us a chance. In the weeks ahead, I’m

going to keep doing everything in my power to make a differ-ence for the American people — including young people like you. When we face a challenge, we meet it. We don’t wait. And I hope you’ll join me.

Sincerely,Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

We can’t wait: helping manage student loan debt around the US

Herman Cain. End of the story.

Cain grossly distorts the mission of the

reproductive rights movement in the

United States.What happened to the respectable celebrity, like Elizabeth Taylor?

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Race to beat the pumpkinBy Taylor FeussStaff Writer

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rallies in the end to tie Niagara

Swimming and diving cruise past Siena

Field hockey ends season with a loss

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Men’s and women’s basketball dominate in exhibition opener

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NFL notes: Week 8By Jake BieleckiStaff Writer

Rumors of the Steelers’ demise were greatly exaggerated. I stated recently the common misconception that the Steelers defense is old and slow, but they proved me wrong on Sunday. The Patriots pass-rush made the Steelers offensive line look good, and that’s no easy task. The defense is a serious problem, and the questions greatly outnumber the answers. Why do we trade all our

Why does Bill Belichick get so much credit when Tom Brady essentially runs the offense and commands the defense? The defense hasn’t been good for years — what is he contributing other than his presence?

Tom Brady can win with anyone playing the receiver position, but it would be a lot easier if the Patriots invested in a deep threat. Brady can throw short and intermediate timing patterns with the best

Patriots offense a better balance. Chad Ochocinco is a shell of himself, Welker and Branch aren’t ideal deep threats, and the tight end position doesn’t lend itself to that role. I miss watching Brady dip his back shoulder and uncork a sky-scraping bomb to Randy Moss. The offense isn’t good enough to mask the Patriots’ atrocious defense against elite teams. Does anyone have Terrell Owens’ number?

can do for an offense. As a rookie his only job was to go deep, but he’s able to do much more now. He has a ridiculous skill set, but more importantly, he’s capitalizing on it. Why can’t other speedsters grasp the receiver position as well as Wallace has? Desean Jackson’s hands are still as soft as a two-by-four, and Devin Hester’s routes are about as precise as a drunk wielding a shotgun. Excluding Calvin Johnson, I’d take Wallace over any receiver in the NFL for the next 10 years.

of the Eagles. They will win if their offense gets ahead early and you’re forced to throw at that talented secondary and dodge their impressive front four. The way LeSean McCoy runs makes me feel weird things so it’s hard to complain about watching him run. But why is Andy Reid handing him the ball 30 times? Why’d you sign Ronnie Brown if you won’t use him to run out the clock in a 34-7 blowout? I wouldn’t be surprised if McCoy is a little sluggish next week.

Tim Tebow looks a little less impressive when he isn’t playing the Dolphins, huh? He went 18 for 39 with two turnovers and seven sacks on Sunday. People talk about Tebow much more than he deserves, and I’m certainly not helping the problem. He’s as comfortable in the pocket as I would be watching “Black Swan” with my grandmother. I’ll concede that as a Lions fan I feared the Broncos more with Tebow than I did Orton;; he makes a bad team better because of who he is. He’d also make a good team worse because he’s so unconventional. Any time spent on him is time wasted if your goal is to be anything more than a respectably bad team.

Down 24-0 with 40 seconds left before half and

run down and punt on a fourth and two. Why is Jason Garrett playing to lose by as little as possible? In the next year or two Rob Ryan will be hailed as the coach-in-waiting for Dallas. I don’t know how much I blame Garrett for his struggles because I don’t see many coaches succeeding with Tony Romo calling the shots.

scoreboardNFL Picks Week 9

Initials indicate the author of the pick: (WA) — Will Andreycak (ME) — Mike Eaton (JK) — Jeremy Karpf

By Will AndreycakSports Editor

WA ME JK

New York’s revival will continue in Buffalo as a rested Jets de-fense will bottle up Fred Jackson and force Ryan Fitzpatrick into making costly turnovers down the stretch.

If the Patriots lose to the Giants on Sunday, they will have the unenviable task of trying to end a three-game losing streak the following week on the road against the Jets. If that isn’t enough motivation, revenge for the Super Bowl loss to the Giants should

Pittsburgh earned the title of best team in the AFC last week when they beat New England. Baltimore has been up and down all year, and I can’t imagine that Pittsburgh loses to Baltimore for the second time this year with this one in Pittsburgh.

I am buying back into Philadelphia after their dominant perfor-mance against Dallas. Philadelphia’s talented secondary allows them to use more of their front seven to shut down the Bears running game and put pressure on quarterback Jay Cutler. Cutler and pressure tra-ditionally don’t mix well: The Eagles revival continues.

Bu!alo Bills vs. New York Jets — Sunday, Nov. 6, 1 p.m.

New England Patriots vs. New York Giants — Sunday, Nov. 6, 4:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens — Sunday, Nov. 6, 8:20 p.m.

Philadelphia Eagles vs. Chicago Bears — Monday, Nov. 7, 8:30 p.m.

WA ME, JK

WA ME, JK

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Catamounts drop two in weekend seriesMen’s hockey falls to Merrimack

By Diana GiuntaSenior Staff Writer

MEGHAN PRIOR The Vermont CynicJunior forward Tobias Nilsson-Roos moves the puck up ice agaisnt Merrimack during the Catamounts’ 4-1 loss on October 28.

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Women’s swimming and diving @ NiagaraNiagara Falls, N.Y.11 a.m.

Men’s soccer vs. AlbanyCentennial Field1 p.m.

Women’s basketball vs. Franklin PierceGutterson Fieldhouse 4:30 p.m.

Friday 11/4 Saturday 11/5Men’s basketball vs. ConcordiaPatrick Gymnasium1 p.m

Men’s hockey @ ProvidenceProvidence, R.I.7 p.m.

Rubgy season ends in loss, team looks forward to next seasonBy Julia DwyerStaff Writer

ALEXA ALGIOS The Vermont CynicA member of the Holy Cross club rugby team breaks free during their victory over UVM on Oct. 29.

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