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CYNICThe University of Vermont’s independent voice since 1883

Coming soon: Waterman’s sidewalk

“Some emcees don’t like to leave the stage. They don’t want to be touched or brush against people, but fuck all that, that’s not what hip hop is about.” -GZA Page 8

In another effort to diversi-

fy UVM’s predominantly white

student body, the University

has given students from some

of New York City’s poorest and

most multiethnic boroughs the

opportunity to expand their

college options through the Ur-

ban Partnership program.

The program was created

as a collaboration between the

University and three schools

in the Bronx and one in Man-

hattan in order to give college-

planning support to inner-city

students from New York.

These high school students

are given opportunities to visit

UVM and then are encour-

aged to apply to the University

during their senior year, said

Director of Admissions Beth

Wiser.

“From the perspective of

the schools, we are providing

an opportunity for students to

become familiar with a college

option outside of New York

State,” said Deborah Gale, as-

sistant director for UVM ad-

missions in the Manhattan

region.

While UVM has made

some progress in increasing

its overall multiethnic popula-

tion—UVM’s minority under-

graduate has increased from

about 4.6 percent in 2011 to

approximately 10.4 percent

today— the reality is that Burl-

ington and the Bronx could not

be more different.

Burlington’s population is

one of the least diverse in the

country, with only 22.3 per-

cent of its population reporting

itself as belonging to any race

besides Caucasian.

By contrast, the Bronx

county has a minority popula-

tion of 50.8 percent, according

to the U.S. Census Bureau re-

ports from 2011.

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gram, staff from the University

is sent to work with students in

the ninth grade for about two

days, Gale said.

“The schools identify areas

they want us to cover with their

students when we visit,” Gale

said.

The staff then works with

these students each year,

teaching them about the ap-

SOLFDWLRQ�SURFHVV��¿QDQFLDO�DLG�and time management.

Students get the chance to

visit the University in ninth,

11th and 12th grades.

Kiley FalconeStaff Writer

NATALIE WILLIAMS The Vermont CynicWorker Richard Munson carries sandbags while renovating the Water-man building April 4. The project is expected to be completed by May.

Students who have won-

dered where the sidewalk went

may be glad to know that ongo-

ing renovations to the Water-

man building are nearing com-

pletion.

Since February, construc-

tion crews have worked on

:DWHUPDQ¶V� KLJKO\� WUDI¿FNHG�HQWUDQFH�WR�¿[�VWUXFWXUDO�LVVXHV�that have caused the building’s

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Finance and Administration

Richard Cate said.

With a $781,521 price tag

according to budget estimates

provided by Cate, the project is

not cheap. But he said he is op-

timistic it will be well worth the

investment.

“We’ll have an indestruc-

tible surface, we’ll catch the wa-

ter, and it’ll look a lot better,” he

said.

During a tour of the con-

struction site last week, Cate

said Waterman’s porous stone

foundation— unlike the con-

crete foundations that many

newer buildings have—is to

blame for the problem.

Previously, storm water run-

off falling from the roof would

saturate the ground and seep

through the cracks of Water-

man’s foundation. A new drain-

age system has been designed to

capture this excess water.

The current project also in-

cludes a cosmetic upgrade to the

front of the building.

“Students had learned their

geometry, and knew that the

shortest distance between the

two points was a straight line,”

Cate said, referring to the dirt

paths that cut diagonally across

the lawn area.

“So, we decided that if that’s

the way that everyone wants to

walk, then that’s were we would

put the sidewalks,” Cate said.

Architectural blueprints of

the new design show two walk-

ways extending diagonally from

the South Prospect Street side-

walk toward the concrete patio

in front of the building.

Although Cate said the proj-

HFW� ZRXOG� XOWLPDWHO\� EHQH¿W�students, some feel like the con-

struction has been an inconve-

nience that has taken too long.

“It’s annoying to not have

sidewalks and needing to walk

on the road,” sophomore Alex-

andra Desenzo said. “But the

good part is it’s always a good ex-

cuse for being late to class.”

Cate said he expects the proj-

ect to be completed in time for

commencement events sched-

uled for mid-May.

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The Department of Residen-tial Life has decided to cut tele-vision cable on campus starting next fall after a survey adminis-tered in February showed that not many students are using it.

The survey, open to the whole residential population, showed that 56 percent of re-sponders watched television for 30 minutes or less in a typical day and zero minutes was the most frequent response.

ResLife plans on “improv-ing and building upon its wire-less infrastructure to ensure that students have the internet capability to do both academic and social related activities on their computer,” according the survey.

Inter-Residence Association president Joe Oteng said that UVM will save $200,000 by cutting cable and that it was in-evitable considering how many students watch TV online or WKURXJK�1HWÀL[�

“Students are watching tele-vision online,” Oteng said.

“While still in the initial stag-HV�� JURXS� SDFNDJHV� IRU� 1HWÀL[�and Hulu are being looked into to provide students an alterna-tive.”

Local channels like Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS would still be available, in addition to plans of adding televisions with more channels in common rooms, Oteng said.

“Watching television is a communal activity, anyway,” he said.

IRA Director of Social Pro-graming, sophomore Eric Davis said that instead of spending the money on cable, it would be better used to increase Internet bandwidth.

“Instead of spending money something only a small percent-age of the population uses we are going to increase bandwidth and that is something everyone can enjoy,” Davis said.

First-year Scott Maynard said he would not be surprised if UVM saw an increase of stu-dents illegally streaming televi-sion shows.

“The money UVM saves from getting rid of cable may end up going toward increased appeals for students who get caught pirating,” Maynard said.

“For the amount of money we pay to go this school it really bothers me when they try to cut cost like this.

“All it takes is four out-of state students to pay for cable,” he said.

First-year Keith Kennett said taking cable away would be unnecessary.

“Cable is already wired into the buildings,” Kennett said. “This is simply an outrage, and I do not support it at all.

“UVM has no problem wast-ing money elsewhere.”

March 277:50 p.m. A shuttle bus driver called police services to report a group of people throwing VWLFNV� WKDW� ZHUH� OLW� RQ� ¿UH�near Patrick Gym. No one was in the vicinity when po-lice arrived.

11:13 a.m.Hall staff in Christie Hall re-ported an odor of marijuana coming from a dorm room. When police arrived they were able to identify where it was coming from and FRQ¿VFDWHG� D� SLSH�� JULQGHU�DQG�DOPRVW�¿YH�JUDPV�RI�WKH�drug from students in the room.

March 288:33 a.m.A student’s car was broken into while parked in the Da-vis Hall parking lot. The stu-dent reported that his/her car window had been smashed in with a chunk of asphalt and a GPS unit had been taken. No RQH�KDV�\HW�EHHQ�LGHQWL¿HG�LQ�this incident.

12:56 p.m.A student reported that her iPhone had been stolen from Patrick gym. The student was studying at a desk and left her phone and laptop unattended for a few minutes. When she came back her phone was gone.

March 291:51 a.m.

$Q�RI¿FHU�ZDV�SDUNHG� LQ� WKH�Allen House parking lot on a nightly patrol when she spot-ted two students walking near Bittersweet House. After ob-serving the students for a few minutes, it became apparent that one of them was going to XULQDWH�RQ�WKH�ODZQ��7KH�RI¿-cer was able to stop the inci-dent from occurring and sent both students on their way.

Kevin SantamariaStaff Writer

Plug pulled for campus cableCRIME LOGResults from the Resident

Satisfaction Survey From February 3-24, 2013, the residen-tial population was invited to complete a satisfaction survey by the Department of Residential Life. 40% responded. Here are

some of the results.

Do you have a TV in your residence hall room?

Yes-56% No-44%Do you watch UVMtv (cable channels 2,12,23

and or 65)

Yes-6% No-94%Do you watch online TV or video content in yourresidence hall room using a computer, smart

TV, or some other device?

Yes-86% No-14%What methods do you use to connect to the network from your residence hall room? Select

all that apply.

Wireless connection-81%Ethernet Cord/Not-19%

How do you prefer to watch TV or video con-tent?

TV-16%Comp. SP, or tablet-19%

“It is clear based on the survey results that cable television is woefully under utilized by the residential-student popu-lation and that broad-band wireless use for TV and movie content is becoming the new norm.” -Survey Summary AUSTIN GRANT The Vermont Cynic

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Lauren DraslerStaff Writer

When the Urban Partner-ship Program began in 2001, UVM worked with only the Christopher Columbus high school.

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Working with the ALANA center, the students from the ¿UVW�\HDU�RI�WKLV�SURJUDP�ZHUH�DEOH� WR� ¿QG� D� KRPH� DW� 890��even when certain incidents on campus presented a disturbing challenge to the University’s diversity efforts.

That same year, a student KXQJ� D� &RQIHGHUDWH� ÀDJ� IURP�his dorm room and refused to take it down, even after the ad-ministration demanded it be removed, a Vermont Quarterly article stated.

An alumnus named Alex Wilcox, who was the director of business development at JetBlue airways in 2001, per-suaded his CEO at the time to provide 200 annual free tickets for students, faculty and ad-missions staff participating in the program.

This has contributed to an overall budget for the partner-ship program that totals about $12,000 annually.

“It is important to create a diverse student body and these schools help provide that di-versity,” Wiser said.

“More importantly the schools are committed to help-ing their students attend col-lege and we are happy to be one of those schools that are their choices.”

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“Personally I love it here and I know other people who have gone through the same program and they love it too. It’s a great program honestly.”

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You’d have to be blinder than Scooby Doo’s Velma Dinkley without her glasses on to miss spring on the ho-rizon.

Snow is melting, the earth is turning-let’s turn our wheels with it.

As snowboards and skis freturn to their places in stor-age, longboards emerge to re-kindle the nostalgia in carving turns. While ski-mountains are nearly a 45-minute drive from campus, longboarding hills are smack-dab in the middle of Burlington.

More than a mode of transportation, longboarding has forged its way into UVM’s culture alongside Ben & Jer-ry’s and mason jars.

Whether you’re more tal-ented than Otto from Rocket Power on a board or as clum-sy as Squid, anyone can enjoy a little time on a board.

For those of you who feel more comfortable on your board than walking on your own two feet, Burlington

hosts hills ranging from steep to mellow, short to long.

A gem in its long and consistent downslope, Henry Street offers about 1000 feet RI� IUHVK� SDYHPHQW�� 7UDI¿F�tends to be low in this spot but eventually it intersects the usually busy North Wil-lard Street.

To add to the beauty of Henry Street is the deli that sits toward the bottom of the hill.

Henry Street Deli of-fers classic sandwiches just like mom used to make with all the standard market ac-couterments from Oreos to Arizona Iced Tea – a perfect refresher after a long run in which you may or may not have wiped out.

While it’s not uncommon for Henry Street to attract a solid amount of skaters on a bluebird day, just parallel is its twin, Loomis Street. Loo-mis offers all the beauties of Henry Street, excluding the pleasures of a market at the bottom.

If you’re looking for mini-

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party trains, Carrigan Drive has your name all over it. By starting your descent towards the back entrance of Jeffords Hall, you’ll have 1500 feet of VKUDOSLQJ�XQWLO�LW�ÀDWWHQV�

Looking for more gnar? Or a hill steeper than both our in and out-of-state tuition? Set your gaze on none other than Battery Street, right next to Lake Champlain.

While you feel more ba-dass than Brink when you skate down, this hill is rug-gedly steep and usually packed with cars. Problem. That’s why if you’re going to attempt Battery, pick an KRXU� RI� GD\� ZKHQ� WUDI¿F� LV�less sketchy than the hockey house.

Of course a helmet can throw off your steez - if you’re going for that - but it does a good thing, you know? Hel-mets are a lot like condoms, it’s better to be caught with one than without one in a time of need.

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LifeStudying abroad gets wild with NOLS

For nearly 48 years, the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) has taught technical outdoor skills, lead-ership, and environmental ethics.

It offers an alternative to a traditional UVM study abroad program, but the lessons learned do not take place in a classroom.

Although NOLS began as a backpacking program, they have included a diverse list of courses that specialize in skills from rock climbing to kayaking.

With NOLS’ notoriously outdoor oriented curriculum, it is natural that it has at-WUDFWHG� D� VLJQL¿FDQW� DPRXQW�of UVM students.

Included on the list of students is sophomore Izzy Lazarus. Izzy recently attend-ed a NOLS program based out of the Olympic Peninsula of Washington.

“I saw NOLS as an oppor-tunity to break the boundar-ies of traditional academics and challenge myself physi-cally and mentally. I knew that whatever course I chose, I would be taken to a wild and extraordinary place.” Lazarus said.

Students enrolled in the school are granted the op-portunity to work with some of the most passionate educa-tors in outdoor leadership.

Izzy said the NOLS pro-fessors take pride in teaching, spending one-on-one time with students, and love their jobs.

“The instructors are knowledgeable; the scenery is jaw dropping and the learn-ing is endless,” Lazarus said.

Dan Hobbs, a junior at Champlain, participated in a program on Drystale River in Australia and agreed that the instructors deserve praise.

His instructor was a for-mer electrical engineer from Barcelona.

“He decided to quit and become a NOLS instructor. He’s been traveling the world since,” Hobbs said.

In addition to working with uplifting teachers, NOLS students get to travel some of the most remote areas in the world.

They experience hands-on training and acquire im-mense information in regards to environmental ethics.

For a school that now reaches hundreds of people, some may be surprised it bgan as the vision of just one man. In 1960, instructor Paul Petzoldt sought to bring stu-dents to the wild.

Petzold’s objective of NOLS went beyond typical concrete education. The cur-riculum is based on not only technical skills, but leader-ship as well.

“From day one, the in-structors begin to step back

and let the students run the course,” Lazarus said.

Hobbs said that he grew as a person from his experi-ence in Australia.

“Throughout the trip there are times where you feel unsure, incompetent, and unprepared but you need to persevere because at the end of the day you have what it takes,” said Hobbs.

NOLS prides itself on placing students outside of their comfort zones and chal-lenging them in ways a tradi-tional study abroad program does not, according to its mission statement. Within this, NOLS does not allow cell phone use.

Hobbs and Lazarus both said that NOLS was hard work, but it was worth every

VHFRQG��/D]DUXV�UHÀHFWHG�RQ�her experience describing each day as “an unforgettable memory of hardship, beauty, excitement and learning.”

“Absolutely, whether they had one day in the backcoun-try or 50, I would strongly recommend a NOLS pro-gram,” Lazarus said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISTINE HAAG The Vermont CynicStudents of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) rest at the Wind River Mountain Range in Wyo. June 2012. NOLS teaches students outdoor skills, leadership and environmental ethics.

Danielle GogliaCynic Correspondent

Spend a semester outside with SUNY-ESF

Q Live and learn in the heart of the Adirondack Park

Q Earn 15 credits during a semester at ESF’s Newcomb Campus

Q Immerse yourself in Adirondack issues while you study:

X Sustainable Development

X Environmental Ethics and Culture

X Research Methods

X Diverse Perspectives on a Common Landscape

X Using Past Experience to Inform Future Management

Contact Paul Hai at 518-582-4551 or email: pbhai@esf.eduwww.esf.edu/nfi/ars/

Got questions?

Want to get out of the classroom?

JOHNNY SUDEKUM

Life is Good

Burly places worth a longboard cruise

Illustration by Vicky Mooney

When you meet Rick Sharp, the owner of Burling-ton Segways, the word “dis-abled” does not immediately come to mind.

But a bad leg injury that stemmed from a paragliding accident sparked an entre-preneurial spirit in Sharp.

After his accident, he was no longer able to do the same things he loved – like riding a bike, for example.

With his wife Ruth’s sup-port, the couple opened a Segway adventure center, Sharp Park, in Milton near their home. This 101 acre ecology preserve is home to a Christmas tree farm, maple sugar grove, and forest con-servation land.

This is where the couple decided to bring Segways ten miles south of Milton, to Bur-lington.

Burlington Segways op-HUDWLRQV� DUH� RI¿FLDOO\� XQGHU-way. They offer one and two hour Segway tours of Burl-ington, mostly focusing on using the bike path.

Segways have opened up a new door for Rick, or perhaps

reopened an old one. Since getting involved with Segway, Rick has been able to travel and see the world through Segway tours, despite his handicap.

During our interview, Sharp insisted I have the Seg-way experience, describing it as “unique and fun.”

As he steps on his, and helps me step onto mine – KLV�FRQ¿GHQFH�DQG�KDSSLQHVV�is apparent in his smile as he speeds up and down the bike path.

This summer will be their ¿UVW� LQ� EXVLQHVV�� :LWK� WKH�right marketing and their newly hired interns from a Vermont job agency, Ver-mont Business’s for Social Responsibility, they are hop-ing for success.

Sharp played an active role in the early 1980s to build the Waterfront Bike Path that runs along Lake Champlain. Currently, they have been is-sued a temporary Special Use Permit form the Parks and Recreation Department to use the bike path.

Sharp ultimately hopes to secure a more permanent position as the tours become more popular with Burling-ton tourism.

Katie Ettman, a junior, is among the three hired sum-mer interns. Ettman landed the job with hopes that she will bring her tour guide ex-perience from UVM down to the waterfront.

The Sharps also hope her connection to UVM admis-sions will bring them one step closer to their end goal: Segway tours on campus.

UVM students have differ-ing opinions when it comes to this prospect.

“Segways are dope! And all the better that they could be available for people with disabilities,” UVM junior, Bennett Siegel, said.

Sophomore Jessie Shu-brook disagrees. “I think Seg-way tours would be disrup-tive to the campus. We have a relatively small campus, Seg-ways would be unnecessary,” she said.

“Although UVM isn’t sold on the idea, we are hoping students, like Katie Ettman, can help spread the word,” Ruth said.

While visiting schools around the country for their daughter, Sharp found him-self out of luck when it came to handicap options for the campus tours.

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FRANCESCA PARNHAM The Vermont CynicVermont residents take a tour via segway March 29. Burlington Segways is a segway adventure center located in Milton, Vt.

Francesca ParnhamLife Editor

For a small town, Burl-ington has the activity of a bustling city. But if you’re like me, running around to class-es and jobs has you worn out. Salvation isn’t far.

Dobra Tea can ease your mind and slow down time.

I went down to the Bank 6W��WHD�URRP�LQ�KRSHV�RI�¿QG-ing a place to drown the bag-gage of the week in chamo-mile and chai.

The moment I walked in I was greeted by a soft-spoken attendant who invited me to sit anywhere from a small wicker chair by the window WR�D�FXVKLRQ�RQ�WKH�ÀRRU�QH[W�to a table and lamp.

You’d think that a menu devoted to tea would be shorter than a text mes-sage, but the menu at Dobra is nearly a novel. It’s easy to get lost in the descriptions of each tea, from where it was grown to when it is best to drink.

I had the Sweet Smell Of Jerusalem tea. It was billed as a black tea infused with cinnamon, giving it a sweet aroma.

When the tea arrived, the scent of cinnamon was pres-ent, but not in the way most of our noses are used to. It smelled similar to apple pie before it was baked when

the freshly cut tart apples are sprinkled with heavy cinna-mon.

I sipped my tea in con-tented silence. Pleasantly, the tea was bitter and fruity at the same time, with an un-derlying hint of sweetness.

The shop was mostly empty. There was soft Hima-layan music playing and cus-tomers murmuring in pleas-ant undertones. Everything from the calming music to

the soft light created an irre-sistibly relaxing atmosphere.

Although the tea was in-expensive and the crowd minimal, Dobra’s business must be booming because they have recently acquired the space next door, previ-ously used by the small deli Mad Hatter.

The new space was long overdue. “We have always felt crowded,” Stacy, Do-bra’s owner, said. With this

in mind, it was carefully de-signed. “We view [Dobra] as a community center. Ul-timately, we wanted to pre-serve the serenity,” she said.

It is set to open this Satur-day. While it won’t have addi-WLRQDO�VHDWLQJ��LW�ZLOO�EH�¿OOHG�with everything you’ll need to make tea at home. This space will be retail-based where RQH� FDQ� ¿QG� DQ\WKLQJ� IURP�cups and pots to mugs and their loose-leaf teas.

“This has been a great op-portunity to take retail out of the tearoom,” Stacy said.

Additionally, this new space will provide Dobra with the resources to start a food to-go program. They are going for a “global street food” theme with the essence being an “indoor street cart.”

,I�\RX�¿QG�\RXUVHOI�GRZQ-town Saturday afternoon, Dobra’s grand opening party is from 1 to 6 p.m.

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This Week in Arts high-lights upcoming events at UVM and in the Burlington community. Sarah Sickle provides her recommenda-tions for local concerts.

FridayApr. 5Eight 02

Marriott Harbor Lounge, 8:30 p.m.

Upbeat and innovative, Eight 02 is a relatively new jazz group in Burlington whose new EP “Drive” has

reached no. 5 on the smooth-jazz.com Top 50 album chart. Full of old souls from the Vermont area, Eight 02 includes members of Kili-manjaro and Picture This.

With no shortage of talent in the band, their arrange-ments are unfalteringly in-teresting, and unlike most good jazz in the area, it’s still affordable to see them. Their show at Marriott is free and open to the public.

Saturday Apr. 6$$ & ¢¢

Nectar’s, 9 p.m., 21+, $5 This Radiohead tribute

crew packed Nectar’s for their debut show, which fea-tured songs from the classic album “OK Computer.” This coming show will be “a tad more ambitious” (accord-ing to the Nectar’s website), featuring a mixture of tunes from both “OK Computer” and “In Rainbows.”

If you’re a Radiohead fan,

this all-star band isn’t one you want to miss. If you’re not a Radiohead fan, I sug-gest you take the night to re-evaluate your life’s meaning.

SundayApr. 7

Tango SessionsRadio Bean, 7 p.m.

I don’t know if this is new or if I’m blind to exciting things, but if tango is your jam, get there to dance or enjoy from the bar!

MondayApr. 8

The Bumping Jones

Club Metronome, 9 p.m., $10/21+, $15/18+ An all UVM alum band,

The Bumping Jones is a funk band with touches of

soul that you can just gener-ally groove to. A different ex-perience every time you see them, The Bumping Jones DUH�GH¿QLWHO\�ZRUWK�D�KLJKHU�cover charge. And seriously, what else are you going to do on a Monday? Sloe Loris opens up the night.

TuesdayApr. 9

A Triple ThreatRadio Bean, 8:30 p.m.

Eric George goes on at 8 p.m. followed by the Burl-ington Bread Boys at 9 p.m. and Honky Tonk at 10:30 p.m. This is a night you want to make it to Radio Bean.

Eric George is a UVM alum famous for his perfor-mances on the drunk bus. The Burlington Bread Boys are a new addition to the VFHQH� DQG� VHOI� FODVVL¿HG� DV�“sweaty tonk.” You won’t be able to help singing along. All of that followed by Hon-ky Tonk Tuesday is truly a triple treat.

Wednes-day

Apr. 10Paul Asbell,

Clyde Stats and Chris PetermanLeunig’s Bistro, 7 p.m. Now that is a line-up.

Paul Asbell is a local guitar guru who doesn’t just pull off most styles of music: he masters them. Clyde Stats is a professor in our very own music department at UVM so we know he’s good, and Chris Peterman is an illustri-ous saxophonist who can be found gracing Burly with his dulcet tones at nearly every turn.

The show is free with your delicious dinner. If your par-ents are in town or your sig-QL¿FDQW�RWKHU�PHVVHG�XS�ELJ�time, this might be a good time to hit up one of the best restaurants in the city.

SARAH STICKLE

This Week in Arts: March 22-28

The advent of spring leads XV� LQWR� D� VHDVRQ� ¿OOHG� ZLWK�muddy boots, rambunctious birds and the installment of new student art in the Living/Learning gallery.

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Cloud,” showcases student artists in the Creative Expres-sion group within the L/L’s Arts Initiative Residential Learning Community (RLC), whose talents range from po-etry, visual arts, and music production.

Their creations occupied WKH� RSHQ� ÀRRU�� FHLOLQJ� DQG�wall space in imaginative ways.

“The gallery was a way to bring all of the products of our musings together and present them all, despite their differences, in a cohe-sive way,” Amanda Marquis, sophomore and co-program director, said.

“Student galleries on cam-pus are a really valuable way for us to get our messages to the public while we’re still in the transition between stu-dent and artist.”

Only a few pieces are at-WULEXWHG� WR� VSHFL¿F� DUWLVWV��an unintentional function of time-constraints but one that reinforces the way in which many parts come together to form a powerful whole re-gardless of distinction, Mar-quis said.

There is no obvious design to the layout but each piece ¿WV� DV� D� VLQJOH� FUHDWLYH� SUR-duction.

By the entrance at the opening reception, the hol-ORZ� DQG� ÀXII\� UHPDLQV� RI�

milkweed plants overlapped in a quilt-like manner to form a pillow. In its center, the sil-houette of a face sleeps with its cheeks against the feath-ery white interior.

Sophomore and RLC member Grace Keiter ad-mired a cardboard sculpture of a Skyrim videogame type character suspended by in-visible twine. Keiter’s work on the back wall aligned with

the sharp angles of the heroic face.

Her piece of paper, con-sumed by dark greys and tea-stain brown splotches, was inspired and created by the collective forces of water, ink and air.

“It’s awesome,” she said about the showcase. “I love talking to people about it, to see how people interact with the art because I don’t often

get a chance to do that in the program.”

With busy academic schedules and less resources available compared to most professional artists, Marquis explained that most of the students in RLC are unable to have exhibits downtown.

“But that does not mean we have any less need or de-sire to put our work out to the public,” she added. “Creative

Expression is hinged on our collective desire to express our ideas creatively, so hav-ing an opportunity to present it to an audience is crucial to our development as artists.”

“Sometimes I Feel Like a Cloud” will be open through April 5. Upcoming exhibits will feature work from the photography and pottery col-lectives within L/L.

Arts Initiative works displayed in L/LMadeleine GibsonAssistant Arts Editor

ALICIA ACCETTA The Vermont CynicSophomore Ryan Shields (right) and junior Dana Ortiz admire a work of art made of cardboard by sophomore Tenzin Chophel as part of the Arts Initiative art show, “Sometimes I Feel Like A Cloud” in Living/Learning March 27. The exhibition will be open through April 5.

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New York-based hip-hop collective RATKING opened for Wu Tang Clan’s leader GZA on WKH� ¿UVW� OHJ� RI� WKHLU� ¿YH� VKRZ�New England tour together on Thursday, March 28 at the Higher Ground Ballroom.

For a big-name show, the atmosphere was fairly lacklus-ter early on, which seemed to catch DJ Sporting Life and the young emcees Wiki and Hak by surprise. Nonetheless, they performed songs off of their “WIKI93” EP with gusto.

Things picked up when sur-prise guest New Hampshire rapper eyenine took the stage. With a burst of stamina, he im-pressed with his rapid delivery of complex rhymes and his en-ergetic stage presence.

Then there was GZA. By the time the man also known as “The Genius” came onto the stage, there was a much larger crowd rearing to hear some Wu Tang classics.

Concert-goers had shed their collective fear of dancing at this point, but apparently it was still not satisfactory to the Genius.

With the audience not near-ly energetic enough for his taste, GZA took a leap into the crowd. He stayed there for most of the show, putting the collective en-tertainment of the crowd on his back.

He strutted around the ballroom rapping to the beats spun by DJ Symphony, caus-ing a mobile mosh-pit of people clamoring to get as close to GZA as possible.

After doing this for four or ¿YH�VRQJV��KH�PDGH�KLV�ZD\�WR-ward the back of the room and climbed on top of the table that holds the sound controls to ad-dress the crowd:

“Some emcees don’t like to leave the stage,” GZA said. “They don’t want to be touched or brush against people, but fuck all that, that’s not what hip hop is about.”

He proceeded to jump back

down into the crowd and per-form the rest of the show from there.

GZA got the crowd going to Wu Tang classics such as “Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing ta F’ Wit,” “Bring da Ruckus” and paid homage to ODB by rapping along with the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard on his famous song “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.”

At one point, still in the pit, GZA offered the microphone to a concert attendee who was ap-parently asking for it. DJ Sym-phony proceeded to play some instrumentals for an impromp-tu cypher which everyone was invited to participate in, with at

least 10 or so crowd members rapping a few bars.

One guy seemed suspi-ciously good at freestyling until it became apparent that it was eyenine as he passed off the mic to someone else.

GZA closed off the show strong with his last few songs that included a performance of his classic song “Liquid Swords”

off the eponymous album.GZA’s showmanship riled

up a fairly low energy crowd, showing the younger emcees a trick or two to have up their sleeves if need be.

This was a great show for the audience, a learning expe-rience for RATKING and most importantly, a lot of fun for ev-eryone involved.

JULIA MAILLE The Vermont CynicHip hop artist GZA performs at Higher Ground March 28. GZA is the founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan which formed in 1992.

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COLUMNISTS

In 1781, a red-haired revolu-tionary named Thomas Jeffer-son said, “Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.”

The American agricultural-ist has always held practical and V\PEROLF�VLJQL¿FDQFH��

The farmer’s worn yet ear-nest appearance sits on the mantel of iconography alongside baseball and apple pie.

His battered hands offer us redemption from the complica-tions of modernity.

They provide a glimpse into a simpler, more honest day of yore.

We depend upon his labor to sustain us and his work ethic to remind us of our national poten-tial.

But today’s cultivators are gradually beginning to break the traditional mold.

I would be willing to assume that you took for granted my us-age of “he.” This is no fault of your own.

Women are all-too-often overlooked in discussions on farming. The trusty, subservi-ent farmer’s wife is a piece of iconography just as engrained as her husband’s weather-worn hat.

In centuries past, she has worked the house, kept the IDUP¶V� ¿QDQFHV� LQ� RUGHU�� DQG�helped with planting. Now, she works the farm.

Female farm ownership in the United States increased 19 percent from 2002, outpacing

the 7 percent increase in farm-ers overall, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department’s 2007 Census of Agriculture report.

Furthermore, women are the principal operators on 14 percent of America’s farms and ranches. Five years earlier, that percentage stood at only 11 per-FHQW��7KH�¿JXUHV�DUH�HYHQ�PRUH�surprising in the agriculturally-intensive Midwest.

In Iowa, 20 percent of the state’s farmland is owned by women and 10 percent is owned by a singlwwe woman over the age of 75.

Later this year, the federal government will be updating its agricultural census.

Kathleen Merrigan, the sec-RQG�KLJKHVW�RI¿FLDO�DW�WKH�86'$��has projected that the number of women currently involved in the profession will be “much higher” than in years past.

The demographic change can be partly accounted for by women who take up the profes-sion after outliving their hus-bands or fathers. Seeing as to how smaller-scale farms often have deep familial ties, the pros-pect of selling the land is simply out of the question for many women.

Also contributing to the re-cent trend are women entering agriculture on their own voli-tion, with a large focus on small-scale livestock operations, local-ly-based produce and organic crops.

This inclination will hold in the near future.

According to researchers at Iowa State University, more than 200 million acres of farm-land in the country will change hands by 2027, with women quite possibly owning a major-ity of the land. The farming es-tablishment is beginning to take note.

Grassroots groups such as Annie’s Project and Women, Food and Agriculture Network cater to female cultivators.

The National FFA Organiza-tion, which provides resources to budding agriculturalists, barred women from its ranks until 1969. In 1988, it was com-prised of 20 percent women. Today, that statistic stands at 44 percent.

Even Washington D.C. is joining in on the fray.

The USDA, which has previ-ously been accused of discrimi-nation by some female farmers and ranchers for denying them assistance, has begun outreach initiatives to rectify previous wrongs.

This trend is an extremely encouraging one — especially considering that March was Women’s History Month.

Women who might other-ZLVH� EH� ¿QDQFLDOO\� GHSHQGHQW�upon their husbands will have the opportunity to achieve com-SOHWH�VHOI�VXI¿FLHQF\��

Besides being person-ally empowering, the changing farmer demographics promises to impact the social landscape.

The profession is deeply tied to gender norms, and increased female participation threatens to shatter many social miscon-ceptions about women.

It will be much harder to reinforce the idea that “female” is synonymous with “weaker” when nearly one in every two of the nation’s farmers is the for-mer.

The women of agriculture

JOSH GACHETTE

In centuries past, she has worked the

house, kept the farm’s finances in order, and helped with planting.

Now she works the farm.

Excellence in community service is on our shores.

With the growing promi-nence of UVM’s new club, SHORE, we are continually re-minded about how much com-munity service UVM students devote their time to.

What makes students in Burlington so appreciated by the city’s permanent residents— despite any qualms about testy neighborhood relations— is the time and effort that various clubs and organizations dedi-cate to the community.

With the closing of Sigma Phi Epsilon and its subsequent national attention, Greek Life at UVM took a hit in 2011. But now is the time to look past the actions of an individual and rec-ognize the good that our Greek community does for UVM, Bur-lington and national philan-thropic programs.

Call it a comeback, if you will.

Clubs like UVM’s SHORE have partnered with both local and national philanthropic or-ganizations and have been in-volved with local programs such as Burlington’s DREAM and the emergency food shelf.

Some of the largest con-tributors to community service at UVM, and often most over-looked, are the Greek organiza-tions, former members of which make up a large subset of the founding leaders of SHORE.

The Greeks participate in weekly street cleanups around Burlington, the annual Relay for Life, Outright Vermont’s Fire-truck Pull and recently the UVM Greek community was recog-nized on a Northeast regional level for their philanthropy and service.

The Kappa Sigma fraternity is known nationally for its an-nual Sleepout for the Soldiers, raising over $10,000 for fami-lies of wounded veterans in this year’s event.

Additionally, Kappa Sigma and other Greek organizations volunteered their time for the March Zumbathon, helping to raise over $55,000 for Women Helping Battered Women.

There are annual events known throughout Burlington, such as Delta Delta Delta’s Delta Desserts, which raises money for St. Jude, and AEPi’s Rock-athon for Save a Child’s Heart.

We have witnessed how the charitable efforts of some Greek chapters can be tarnished by negative stereotypes of Greek culture. We hope critics will not be blinded by past actions in their assessment of Greek life’s future.

A few former members of Sig Ep have proven their com-mitment to community service through the creation of this club.

Now is the time to join them and the rest of Greek Life in their causes.

Greeks do good

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Dear Editor,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The beaver situation

UVM Confession #1349. Whether they are true or not, the new Facebook page makes many assertions about life at UVM by

accepting entries from real people with real things to say.

“I KNEW I WOULD BE HIRED TO BE A SENIOR RA OVER A WHITE MALE COWORKER WHO

ACTUALLY PUT A LOT OF EFFORT TO HELP HIS RESIDENTS JUST BECAUSE I’M BLACK AND A

GIRL. RESLIFE IS SO RACIST AND SEXIST!”

CONTROVERSIAL QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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When it comes to leadership, women aspiring to managerial positions are often encouraged to adopt forward, authorita-tive and self-assured leadership styles in order to earn respect in the workplace.

In other words, women wanting to move up on the cor-porate latter are given the mes-sage to act more like men.

Expressions such as “be tough” and “don’t let them see your soft side” are those tradi-tionally applied to men.

But as women slowly gain more leadership positions, they are also at the receiving end of these societal messages.

It’s true that gaining respect in the workplace is crucial for women to succeed in manage-ment positions.

If employees disregard the views of their leader, of course

FRQÀLFW�ZLOO�HQVXH�However, this domineering

leadership style is not one that comes naturally to most women. Nor does the act of egomaniacal self-promotion, or the act of un-dervaluing coworkers’ accom-plishments.

Generally speaking, women have been raised in Western so-ciety to be consensus builders, to acknowledge the contributions of others and to avoid being con-frontational or aggressive.

The male-dominated man-agement culture that women are just beginning to enter is one where self-praise and individ-ual accomplishments are often prized over modesty and group-consensus.

So, does this mean that women should be obligated to conform to these standards if they want to be promoted to leadership positions?

Absolutely not. Broadly speaking, women

possess natural abilities to lead. Unfortunately, many of their in-nate leadership qualities are un-dervalued by our society.

For example, women in gen-eral are better at understanding the nuances in human relation-ships, and tend to be more adept

in reading non-verbal and emo-tional cues.

Authors Bernard Bass and Ronal Riggio write in their book Transformation Leadership, “the ability to inspirationally motivate followers is largely de-pendent on skill in emotional communication to effectively and accurately communicate in-spiring emotional messages.”

The authors further assert, “Consistent research evidence suggests that women as a group are better emotional communi-cators than men.”

The natural ease in which many women communicate with employees by listening to their ideas, asking what they

think about work related topics, and recognizing their accom-plishments closely lends itself to transformational leadership.

Transformational leadership is a well-known style of leader-ship based on the following four SULQFLSOHV�� LGHDOL]HG� LQÀXHQFH��inspirational motivation, intel-lectual stimulation and individ-ual consideration.

In simpler terms, a trans-formational leader acts as a role model, fosters team behavior and group consensus, encour-ages creativity and ingenuity, and gives employees individual attention and advising.

Ultimately, the end result of transformational leadership is a performance that goes beyond all expectations.

This holistic, collaborative leadership style that women tend to gravitate toward is radically different from the au-thoritative, top-down and com-petitive mode of leadership as-sociated with male-dominated environments.

Ultimately, women should be encouraged to embrace the leadership style that comes nat-urally to them and is effective for their given work environment, instead of prescribing to the tra-

ditional male oriented manage-ment culture.

Female leaders should only take the positive aspects of ste-reotypical masculine leadership and incorporate them into their own leadership style.

Qualities such as assertive-ness are necessary in positions with authority, as are the skills for dealing with confrontation DQG�FRQÀLFW��

In turn, male managers who exhibit the commanding and controlling leadership styles should be pushed to embrace an approach that is more com-municative, group-oriented and sensitive to the ideas and wishes of the employees.

Women have a great deal to offer in leadership positions, de-spite the fact that their methods may differ from those of their male counterparts.

Rather than embracing all of the qualities of traditional male leadership, women should be encouraged to develop a leader-ship style that is their own and that brings out the best in their employees.

Talk like a man; females find their role

Broadly speak-ing, women possess

natural abilities to lead. Unfortunately, many of their innate leadership qualities are underval-

ued by society.

While I appreciate the Cyn-ic’s attention to the issue of UVM’s handling of the beavers in the Centennial Woods reten-tion pond, I was disappointed by the unnecessary antagonistic tone that the article took toward WKH�8QLYHUVLW\�DQG�WR�¿QG�P\VHOI�misquoted in Ben Plotzker’s re-cent article, “Melvin’s Murder.”

Since the decision to kill trap the beavers became public knowledge, the University has handled the situation admirably, listening to voices in the com-munity, responding by pulling the kill traps, hosting a meeting with experts on alternative solu-tions.

And, it would appear, that they are actively exploring the more effective and more hu-mane methods of dealing with the beavers in the retention pond.

My primary hope in draw-ing attention to the kill trapping was to assert the importance of community voice in the ongo-ing management of Centennial Woods — whether we’re talking about the 65-acre designated natural area or the ecological and cultural boundary of the woods that includes the reten-tion pond and another 80 acres of woodland and wetland.

I am encouraged that UVM

responded to the community in-put on the issue of kill trapping and hope that in the future, the University is proactive rather than reactive in opening a dia-logue with community members in sensitive cases such as this.

Additionally, I did not state that UVM grounds person-nel were “making fun of me” as Ben quoted me, but that they had been recorded on my game cam speaking with Rick Para-dis, Natural Areas manager and UVM police saying that I was acting as a renegade, that I had H[DJJHUDWHG� P\� DI¿OLDWLRQ� ZLWK�the University, and that the bea-vers were a threat because they could carry rabies, an extremely rare occurrence which has never been documented in Vermont.

The problem with these statements was not that they be-OLWWOHG�PH�� EXW� WKDW� WKH\� UHÀHFW�a profound misunderstanding of the community’s response to the beaver issue as well as to the dangers, or lack thereof, that the beavers posed.

On a lighter note, while I have crawled in other aban-doned beaver lodges, I’ve never been inside this one and would have needed a snorkel to get ac-cess to the entrance.

Sincerely,

Teage O’ConnorNaturalist Educator

Dear Editor,Requiem for Melvin, the beaver

Thanks to Ben Plotzker for his piece about the beaver named Melvin that lived in the Centennial Woods area. We read the story with interest and a little sadness. Perhaps Mel-vin’s demise will not be in vain if we can take advantage of Ben’s good work by using the story as a “teachable moment” and try to extract some generalizable prin-ciples. We think the story raises several potentially important is-sues.

1) Natural areas like our own Centennial Woods are places ZKHUH� ZH� FDQ� OHDUQ� ¿UVW�KDQG�about nature and our relation-ship with it. They can inspire us like they did John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson. All of us at UVM should use and help protect our wonderful sys-tem of natural areas, investing in them with equal measures of love and critical thought.

2) There’s a spectrum of ide-ologies that can help guide reso-lution of environmental issues. For example, anthropocentric ideologies place emphasis on utilitarian values like the servic-es nature provides to humans, while biocentric ideologies ad-vance intrinsic values, suggest-ing equality between humans and nature.

Although seemingly contra-dictory, both of these ideologi-cal approaches have merit, and we’ve applied them across the landscape: cities where humans dominate, wilderness where nature takes precedence, and a broad spectrum in between.

Centennial Woods is home to elements of nature (like for-ests and beavers) and human utilities (like retention ponds and power lines), and so it exists somewhere in the middle of the

anthropocentric-biocentric con-tinuum. Such a position may warrant compromise and trade-offs to negotiate the competing objectives for which Centennial Woods is managed.

3) Resolution of environ-mental issues is part ideology and part facts. John Dewey, UVM’s most famous graduate, advanced a pragmatic approach to thinking and decision-mak-ing. In this approach, ideology informs decisions, but it must be applied within the factual con-straints of the case.

In the case of Melvin, he had taken up residence in a retention pond, a place built to store water for the purpose of controlling excess runoff and reducing as-sociated environmental impacts like erosion and water pollution.

In light of these facts, we think it’s reasonable that Mel-vin’s self-interest may have to give way to the interests of the greater community.

4) It’s clear that some mem-bers of the UVM community had developed emotional bonds to Melvin and we are sympathetic. Love of nature has given rise to a powerful environmental move-ment and has helped sensitize society to matters of animal cru-elty. But emotion and objectiv-ity both demand consideration; we’d like to “save” the beavers, but we also appreciate the func-tionality of the retention pond.

Thus, the “beaver deceiver” noted in Ben’s story strikes us as a desirable solution to manage-ment of beavers in Centennial Woods and the retention pond.

Its potential to balance an-thropocentric needs for storm water management and biocen-tric desires for nature preserva-tion mark it as a step toward a productive form of environmen-tal pragmatism.

If this device can success-fully regulate water levels in the retention pond (despite the best efforts of the beavers), then we hope beavers can be allowed to occupy this area.

A lot of people deserve credit for how this issue is be-ing handled in such a civil man-ner. Teague O’Connor and his students are using Centennial Woods in a productive, learning-by-doing approach that John Dewey advocated. Ben Plotzker cared enough about this issue to write an informed article.

The Cynic provided the mechanism to tell the student body about Melvin. Two stake-holders, Green Mountain Ani-mal Defenders and John Aberth (a wildlife rehabilitator) played a constructive role as well. And two UVM administrators, Sal Chiarelli and Enrique Corre-dera, agreed to work with stu-dents on this issue.

Maybe this is the most im-portant lesson of all: reasonable, caring people can work together to reach pragmatic solutions to contentious issues. We hope this might be a model for our highly polarized society and the resulting dysfunctional state of our national government.

Sincerely,

Bob ManningNathan ReignerPark Studies Laboratory

In light of these facts, we think it’s

reasonable that Mel-vin’s self-interest may

have to give way to the interests of the greater

community.

BIANCA MOHN

COLUMNIST

Upon arriving in Vermont, I head to Winooski to join friends for dinner. We meet at an apart-ment across the river from Jo-seph C. McNeil Generating Sta-tion.

The evening is cold with low clouds and some snow in the air — more like winter than mid-March. I step out of my car and into the shadow of the plume of waste heat rising up from Mc-Neil.

The west wind pushes the cloud of steam low over the apartment house. This evening, the plume is luminous with a strange orange color from what-HYHU�OLJKWV�DUH�UHÀHFWHG�LQ�LW��7R�a child I imagine it might seem like a giant puffy monster.

Yet again I feel disappointed that waste on such a scale con-tinues.

McNeil is jointly owned by Burlington Electric Department (BED), Green Mountain Power and Vermont Public Power Sup-ply Authority. The generating station helps to meet the city’s need for electricity by burning wood chips from low-quality trees and harvest residues, left-overs from local saw mills and scraps from urban wood waste.

While McNeil provides near-ly enough energy to power Burl-ington, it has the potential to do even more.

The next day I join the packed house at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ global warming confer-ence in Montpelier.

A highlight of the day is a series of interlinking presenta-tions by UVM students showing the current impacts of our fossil fuel binge.

One student graphically il-lustrates the declining percent-age of decades in which Lake Champlain completely froze over, falling from near 100 per-cent in the early 20th century to zero for the past decade.

Here’s what I see: on one hand, the McNeil plant discards vast volumes of waste energy as steam. On the other hand, nearby buildings on the hill and downtown burn fossil fuel for heating and cooling.

,W�ZRXOG�EH�D�VLJQL¿FDQW�DG-vantage if the energy required to heat and cool UVM — one of the biggest energy consumers in Burlington — could be supplied by thermal energy from McNeil.

,W¶V� RGG�� WKHQ�� WR� ¿QG� WKDW�McNeil was designed and built to do just that. So why isn’t it?

The UVM boiler emits enough carbon dioxide — 27,000 tons in 2011 — as to

merit inclusion in the Envi-ronmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas mapping site.

This could be avoided and replaced by a carbon free source. Recycling excess heat from Mc-Neil would not create additional carbon dioxide, but it seems any plans for action resulted in fail-ure.

As I understand it, BED and UVM sat down in the early 1980s and, for whatever rea-son, could not work out a busi-ness arrangement to supply the campus with steam energy from McNeil. Synchronizing systems requires skill and planning, but the engineering of such a system was and remains simple.

In the early 1990’s, Burling-ton District Energy Corp, a non-SUR¿W��WULHG�WR�JHW�D�EURDG�EDVHG�district energy system going in Burlington, this time based on hot water instead of steam. That effort failed.

Further, an engineering study by Evergreen Energy of St. Paul, MN, shows the economic feasibility of a district energy system in Burlington, viable even without UVM, the largest fossil fuel carbon polluter in the city.

For three decades reason has been tried and failed to elicit the cooperation necessary to achieve less wasteful district energy in Burlington. BED is a utility with a mandate to supply electricity, but it is not required to use the waste heat it produces.

UVM has a district heating system that it chooses to fuel with gas and some oil. Simple logic has not brought the two to agree that the waste energy from the one serves the needs of the other.

UVM’s leadership in pro-moting such a plan would help lead to the creation of a much broader based district energy system serving the Medical Cen-ter Hospital and numerous oth-er facilities in Burlington. And therefore, UVM’s participation would be a major help.

A catalyst to get this going needs to be a commitment by the Burlington city council and the mayor to end the waste at McNeil. Likewise at UVM, a commitment to give its best to participate is needed.

With such commitments the best way to bring it into effect will become obvious, at least in so far as the city does not allow itself to be subject to any undue LQÀXHQFH��

Given a clear commitment to end the waste, I suggest that a carrot and stick approach be enacted to get the desired result. Sen. Sanders put forward to the U.S. Senate the Sanders/Boxer Climate Legislation, S.332. The bill proposes a price on carbon dioxide of $20 per ton, the cost of which would rise at 5.6% a year for 10 years.

One way to enable the adop-tion of a district energy system

in Burlington would be for the city to apply a local version of the Sanders/Boxer carbon tax to those facilities emitting more than a set limit of carbon dioxide per year.

However, the U.S. Congress is not look likely to pass a carbon tax anytime soon.

Boulder has a carbon tax, as does the bay area of San Fran-cisco, and so can Burlington.

To be fully effective the tax should apply to the joint own-ers of McNeil and not be passed through to electric ratepayers. The waste at McNeil is avoid-able, yes with effort but entirely avoidable, so it is only right that the owners pay the price.

The wood burning McNeil emitted 355,000 tons of biogen-ic CO2 in 2011. For biomass car-bon sources apply the tax to the

level of easily recoverable energy – equivalent to 70,000 tons (for 2011.) At $20/ton the tax would be $1.4 million.

At a fee rate of $20/ton per year, UVM — with its 27,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year — would pay $540,000 a year.

Both UVM and McNeil could avoid the carbon fee using dis-trict energy.

UVM would remove approx-imately 80% of its carbon pollu-tion with one relatively simple action.

$QRWKHU�EHQH¿W�� IRU�WKH�FLW\�as a whole, is that a district ener-gy system opens up access to in-puts from other sources of use-ful thermal energy, renewable and otherwise … call it thermal net metering.

To achieve a high level of

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)RU� WKLV� SODQ� WR� ZRUN�� ¿UVW�there needs to be a resolution to end the waste at McNeil.

The suggested carbon tax could yield $2 million dollars or more a year in Burlington.

Then pour this revenue into engineering, contracting and planning for the development of district energy.

With plans and contracts in hand, putting this project in place would help make Burling-ton cooler, more innovative and more environmentally friendly.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 11

Quick Opinion

Lately I’ve been hearing “free Kingbread” around campus. While Burlington is losing an artist and local icon for the interim, I believe that cocaine distribution is wrong and a

prison sentence is justified. Hard drugs are a huge detriment to society, create poverty, crime and simply ruin lives. People who spread that kind of harm need to be held liable for

actions, regardless of their achievement or fame. Neal Drapeau

Op in ion

GUEST COLUMNIST

City’s opportunity in cleaner electricity

While McNeil provides nearly enough energy to power Burlington, it has the potential to do even more. For three decades reason has been tried and failed to elicit the cooperation necessary to

achieve less wasteful district energy in Burlington.

DERMOT MCGUIGAN

McGuigan is a published author who writes non-

technical books on small wind power and water power and heat pumps. He has

developed cogeneration and renewable energy projects.

Illustration by Vicky Mooney

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 D ISTRACT IONS12

Distractions: This week in Middle Ages

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Music FactsBy Jenna Bushor, Distractions Editor

Studies show children who study music tend to have a larger vocabulary and more advanced

reading skills.

Ricky Brown holds the Guinness World Record for fastest rapper. He rapped 723 syllables in

41.27 seconds for his track “No Clue” released in 2005.

The block artwork on Coldplay’s album X and Y actually spells out “x” and “y” using the Baudot Code that was used for early telegrams. The in-side of the CD booklet spells out “Fair Trade.”

John Lennon stole the harmonica he used for Love Me Do from a Dutch shop while on their

way to Hamburg, Germany.

Sources: dosomething.org, musicradar.com, songfacts.com

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Sports

The men’s lacrosse team had home games Tuesday and Sat-urday this week, hosting Holy Cross and Stony Brook.

While the game Tuesday was tight throughout, Holy Cross was able to make more plays when it mattered and won the JDPH� ����� ,Q� WKH� ¿UVW� $PHULFD�East game of the season Satur-day, Vermont fell at the hands of Stony Brook 19-10.

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In the second half the Cata-mounts scored two goals by Se-nior Captain Augie Remien.

Remien said on his perfor-PDQFH��³,�¿QDOO\�ZDV�DEOH�WR�SXW�the ball in the back of the net, the coaches kept telling me to attack the net and eventually my shots would go in, and today, they did.”

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Vermont won the ground ball battle 31-30 but was out-shot 36-30 and lost the faceoff battle, 9-7. Vermont was hang-ing tough throughout the game KRZHYHU��ZKHQ�WKH�¿QDO�ZKLVWOH�blew, the Cats were on the losing side in their last non-conference game of the year.

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conference game for both teams and Stony Brook moved to 6-4 overall and 1-0 in conference while the Cats fell to 3-7 overall and 0-1 in America East play.

Stony Brook started off hot jumping out to a 4-1 lead, how-ever after the goal by Drew Phi-lie, Vermont was only down two with four minutes to play in the ¿UVW�TXDUWHU��%XW�WKH�6HDZROYHV�answered fast and tallied three PRUH�TXLFN�JRDOV��DQG�OHG�����DW�WKH�HQG�RI�WKH�TXDUWHU��

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Vermont came out in the second half and was able to get goals from Sophomore Tim Yag-er as well as Horvath and Philie, to cut the lead to 13-6.

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Statistically, Vermont held the edge in shots 49-41, face-offs 19-12, and ground balls 44-33, but unfortunately for the Cats, the game isn’t played on paper. The Cats travel to the University

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Within the past month, the UVM club gymnastics team hosted their annual Groovy UV Classic in which both the men’s and women’s teams competed for the gold. The classic hosted four other teams for the women: the Uni-versity of Rhode Island, Boston University, Cambridge Commu-nity of Gymnastics and the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy. “The Classic went really well and it was clear that every team was enjoying themselves, said women’s team president Erika Parry. “We have improved so PXFK�DV�D�WHDP�DQG�LW�GH¿QLWHO\�showed this weekend.

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cord vault score in the club’s his-tory.

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against Vermont’s men’s teams. The Catamounts faced off against teams from the Univer-sity of Southern Maine, Boston University and the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology. Sophomore Brian Varga swept WKH� SRGLXP� FRPLQJ� LQ� ¿UVW� LQ�¿YH�RI�KLV�VL[�WRWDO�HYHQWV��9DUJD�DOVR�FODLPHG�D�¿UVW�SODFH�VSRW�LQ�the all-around. Team member Austin Merril FRPSHWHG�LQ�WKH�¿UVW�J\PQDVWLFV�meet of his career here at Ver-mont. As a team the Vermont men came in second, falling to South-ern Maine by a close three points. “We are very proud of all our competitors, Varga said. “We hope to keep up the success at Nationals in two weeks.” The team’s next competi-tion will be Nationals, held this month in Minneapolis, Minne-sota.

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Vermont is not traditionally known

for its football, but it may be time for that

to change.

Since it began six years ago, the foot-

ball club has created one of the nation’s

strongest club level teams.

When the club began in 2007, the

only other club team in New England

was the University of Maine, but today

the Catamounts play in two divisions—

Yankee Collegiate Football Conference

and the National Club Football Associa-

tion—against 12 schools.

“Its grown into something that we

didn’t expect and we want to keep seeing

it grow,” club president Dane Liljestrand

said. “Every year we bring in more tal-

ented kids.”

All that talent may have paid off. The

team has had a strong enough record in

the past three years to play in the YCFC

championship, but have not yet secured a

championship win.

While UVM’s initial rival was Maine,

the past six years have seen an explosion

of club football. Today, the team’s biggest

rival is Southwestern Connecticut Prep, a

conglomerate of community colleges in

the Bridgeport, Conn. area.

“We are student-athletes and they

are playing club football in order to keep

playing football at the college level,” cur-

rent club treasurer and rising co-presi-

dent Evan Amery said. “Some of those

kids will go on to play Division I football

elsewhere. “

This is also the team that Vermont

has come up against in the past three

YCFC Championship Games.

“Each game has been close, unfortu-

nately they’ve gotten to win it all three

times, but it’s always a good game. They

love playing us and we love playing them.

There is a mutual respect between all of

us,” Liljestrand said.

Members of the football club inter-

viewed for this article agreed that games

against Southwestern Connecticut were

some of the team’s best memories. For

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“I remember seeing our team and not

thinking incredibly highly of us,” he said.

“Then showing up there and seeing 50-

60 massive kids and thinking ‘oh god we

are going to get destroyed. It’s not going

to be a good game.” Amery said.

“Then on our opening play our quar-

terback took the ball on an option route-

and ran 90 yards for a touchdown. And I

realized ‘we could play with these guys.’”

Rising co-president and captain Jake

Leclerc said his favorite memory was

handing Southwestern Connecticut their

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gram.

“Coming into the game, Southwest-

ern Connecticut had not lost a game

since joining the YCFC. Going into that

DV� D� ¿UVW�\HDU� ZDV� VFDU\�� :H� ZHQW� XS�21-0 and then beat them 21-14. That was

pretty cool.”

The club football season begins about

the same time as their professional coun-

terparts begin training camp in mid-Au-

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After the season, the top four teams

play a two-round playoff with the cham-

pionship game played at the top seeded

school. The rest of the year the team

holds strength and conditioning practic-

es to stay in shape.

The commitment to be a member of

the club is high, but Liljestrand feels that

those on the team are there because they

are willing to put in the effort.

“We expect a lot because we play at

a pretty high level,” he said. “We want to

keep that level up and the only way to do

that is to keep on the kids and make sure

that they are putting the time in. Football

is a sport where if you’re not in-shape or

you’re not committed wholeheartedly

you’re going to get hurt.”

While the club welcomes anyone in-

terested in playing, Liljestrand said that

the 35 to 40 player team expects each

member to commit as much as possible.

“We don’t cut anyone… but if you

are not able to commit 100 percent and

you’re not ready to get out there, football

is a dangerous sport and you could hurt

yourself or others,” he said.

There are a few months before the

next season begins, but another year

brings new beginnings as well as the ad-

dition of a national title game. Starting

this fall, the NCFA will begin holding a

National Championship Bowl in Mor-

gantown, W. Va., for the two top teams

nationwide.

“If we win it we have a good chance of

making it to the NCFA National Champi-

onship game,” Liljestrand said.

Anyone interested in Football Club

should go to http://www.uvmfootball.

com.

15 THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

UVM football touches down

Jeremy KarpfSenior Staff Writer

“Its grown into something that we didn’t expect and we want to keep seeing it grow. Every year we bring in more talented

kids.”

Dane LiljestrandFootball Club President

Left: Sophomore quarterback Jack Leclerc protects the ball while getting sacked in a game against the Clarkson University Golden Knights Sept. 15. The game resulted in a 22-21 win for the Catamounts.

PHOTOS BY ALEX GOLDENBERG The Vermont Cynic

Top: Teammates gather around sophomore quarterback Jack Leclerc after his game winning touchdown. The matchup was the team’s 2012 premiere out-ing as they faced off against the Clarkson University Golden Knights Sept. 15.

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Since the Expos’ departure from the country where poli-ticians say Canada, eh, to the country where politicians say they might as well get paid, the Nationals have had little to show for their time in Washington.

But a few savvy moves and two franchise-changing draft picks later, and they’re on the verge of being the MLB’s next dynasty.

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Their championship aspira-tions took a big hit when ace Ste-phen Strasburg was shut down in early September. The team lost its Divisional Series match-up against the St. Louis Cardi-nals three games to two.

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Cy Young candidate for the next 10-12 years.

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Don’t let the focus on two generational talents lead you to believe Washington is a two-

trick pony. Prior to last season the Nationals sent three good, but not great prospects to the Athletics for pitcher Gio Gonza-lez. He responded with the most wins, strikeouts and best ERA on the staff. He’s 27.

Rounding out the rotation is Jordan Zimmermann, 26 years-young coming off a sub-3 ERA season, Dan Haren, one year re-moved from a 16 win, 3.17 ERA campaign, and Ross Detwiler. That’s not saying a whole lot, but you could do a lot worse with \RXU� ¿IWK� VWDUWHU���� /RRNLQJ� DW�you, Luis Mendoza.

Offensively the Nationals boast one of the deepest lineups in the National League. Unher-alded Dernard Span came from Minnesota in the winter and gave them the leadoff hitter they desperately needed last year.

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If Ryan Zimmermann’s shoulder causes you concern, allow me to introduce Anthony Rendon, the Nationals’ most promising prospect. He was forced to miss much of last sea-

son with a balky ankle. Despite only 133 minor league at-bats his spring training performance forced him into opening day consideration.

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jury. If

need-ed, he c o u l d

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Rafael Soriano. Paired with Drew Storen and Tyler Clippard, he gives the team it’s third closer quality arm.

Short story long, the Nation-als will be a team to be reck-oned with for years to come and should be considered the favor-ite to win it all this year. Over the Blue Jays in 201, and over many teams in years to come.

View from the Moon Man

JAKE BIELECKI

Nationals’ dynastyspot a possibility

Illustration by Vicky Mooney

Offensively the Nationals boast one of the deepest lineups in

the National League.