Despite documents from

UnKoch My Campus, an anti-Koch organization, that suggest UVM allegedly received support from the Charles Koch Founda-tion, the University has no re-cords of receiving any donations from the Charles Koch Founda-tion.

In August of 2014, the Charles Koch Foundation listed UVM, along with Champlain College, Norwich University and St. Michael’s College, on its monthly lists of universities and colleges with programs support-ed by the foundation, according to documents from UnkochMy-Campus.org.

Each month, the Charles Koch Foundation publicly lists all of the colleges and universi-ties that they have given dona-tions to during that period on its website, CharlesKochFoun-dation.org.

These lists are changed and updated on a monthly basis by the foundation, and only the

current version is available for download.

The list of universities and programs supported by the Charles Koch Foundation in August of 2014 was authenti-cated using the a public internet archive service archive.org, but the September 2014 list has not been authenticated at this time.

The Internet Archive is a QRQ�SUR¿�W�RUJDQL]DWLRQ�WKDW�DU�chives texts, audio, moving im-ages, software, and web pages, and is a member of the Ameri-can Library Association.

“The only place on the UVM website that has any mention of the Koch Foundation is the de-partment of economics,” said Gary Derr, vice president for executive communications in an email.

“The site includes the Koch Foundation as a possible intern-VKLS� ORFDWLRQ�� ,� FRQ¿�UPHG�ZLWK�the Department Chair that they do not receive any funding from the Koch Foundation for listing the site as an internship option,” Derr said.

Trice Jacobson, a repre-sentative for the Charles Koch

)RXQGDWLRQ��FRQ¿�UPHG�WKDW�WKH�foundation has not given any funds or donations to UVM.

“We haven’t yet had an op-portunity to support a program run by your school,” said Jacob-son.

In order to make a gift or GRQDWLRQ� WR� 890� �� LW� ¿�UVW� KDV�to go through the University of Vermont Foundation, provost David Rosowsky said.

Donors are able to claim anonymity when they make a donation, according to the UVM Foundation’s Donor Bill of Rights.

“Any gift has to be reviewed not only by the leadership of the [UVM Foundation], but also by the leadership of the University and ultimately the president makes that decision and may well make it in consultation with the board of trustees,” Ro-sowsky said.

“The UVM Foundation is re-sponsible for accepting, holding and investing gifts and endow-PHQW� LQFRPH� WKDW� EHQH¿�WV� WKH�University,” according the UVM )RXQGDWLRQ¶V� UHSRUW� IRU� WKH�¿�V�cal year 2014.

Rich Bundy, a UVM envi-ronmental studies alumni, is CEO of the UVM Foundation.

“We have carefully checked our database of donors. The University of Vermont Founda-

tion has no record of any gift, commitment or other donation from the Charles Koch Foun-dation or members of the Koch family,” Bundy stated in an email.

A house representative re-signed from the UVM board of trustees March 2014 due to a ³FRQÀ�LFW� RI� LQWHUHVW´� ZLWK� 9HU�mont Law School work group.

A Vermont Law School work group was created within the board of trustees in January 2014 but was dissolved in June 2014 because they had “con-cluded their work,” said Corrine Thompson, trustee coordinator at UVM.

Sarah Buxton, house rep-resentative for Turnbridge and Royalton, Vermont, was a UVM board of trustees member until March 2014, when she resigned after serving only one year of her six-year term.

“When the prospect of a con-versation about the merger be-gan to occur, by the formation of a work group, I thought a lot about how my role as a repre-sentative and the sole represen-tative of the district might come LQWR� FRQÀ�LFW� ZLWK� P\� ¿�GXFLDU\�duty to the University,” Buxton said.

Thompson does not remem-ber the reason why Buxton re-signed.

“I think she just decided it was not good timing for her,” Thompson said.

Buxton did not feel comfort-DEOH� ZLWK� WKH� FRQÀ�LFW� EHWZHHQ�her two roles, she said.

“When it became clear that there were conversations about not just how UVM and [Ver-mont Law School] would work more together, but about some potential acquisition and merg-er conversations, I contemplat-ed my role as a legislator,” Bux-ton said.

If a merger did occur, Bux-ton said she worries about the

transfer of property between the two institutions, she said.

“Moving a private institu-tion into a public realm might require some assistance in tran-VLWLRQDO� ¿�QDQFLDO� UHOHDVH�� � 7KH�terms in a contract or agree-ment might also include — they might, might not, but they might need money from the state.”

The main concern for mov-ing Vermont Law School to Bur-lington, should UVM actually acquire the institution, is that the town of Royalton, Vermont ZRXOG�VX �HU��VKH�VDLG�

“That’s part of why I realized

,�ZRXOG�EH�¿�JKWLQJ�WZR�GL �HUHQW�battles,” Buxton said.

One new program developed this year due to the partnership between UVM and Vermont Law School is the “Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA,” ac-cording to the program website.

In this program, when a UVM student is admitted, they are guaranteed entrance to the juris doctor program, master of law program or master’s degree program, according to the web-site.

Another program is the “3-2 program” that allows UVM stu-

dents to study for three years at UVM and then two years at Vermont Law School and gradu-ate with both a law degree and bachelor’s degree, according to the program website.

Buxton was confused as to why she wasn’t originally in-cluded in the Vermont Law School workgroup.

“It was somewhat surpris-ing to me, given that I was a UVM alum and a [Vermont Law School] alum,” Buxton said.

“Trustee work groups are es-tablished when there’s an issue that the administration wants to seek expertise from one, two, three, four trustees on a consul-tation basis,” Thompson said. “So they were convened to look at what sort of collaborations might be possible between UVM and Vermont Law School.”

Thompson said Brian Reed, an associate provost of teaching and learning, has “oversight on the partnership.”

³7KH�SURYRVW¶V�R ��FH�KDQGOHV�the academic side of the part-nership [between UVM and Vermont Law School],” Reed said.

Reed is not aware as to what the Vermont Law School work group discussed or what the board of trustee’s intentions were with this partnership, he said.

“[The 3-2 program] is what the work group talked about with the administration,” Thompson said.

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Possible law school ‘merger’

Rumors of Koch donations to University untrue

Sarah OlsenAssistant News Editor

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AP Charles Koch, president of the Charles Koch Foundation, is pictured

above. The foundation gives funds to different universities every month.

PHOTO COURTESY OF VERMONT LAW SCHOOLThe Vermont Law School, pictured above. The new alliance between UVM and the Vermont Law School will lead

to many new programs for students to apply to. It will also increase opportunities for the law students at UVM.

Anti-Koch organization lists UVM as a Koch-funded university

In Sports:

Former trustee left due to ‘conflict of interest’ between

schools

City Council candidates

invited to debate

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Chicken killers not leavingThree UVM students faced

charges last month for allegedly stealing a live chicken, named Sweet Dee, from the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house, killing it and eating it in a UVM residence hall, according to a SROLFH�D ��GDYLW��

First-years Hannah Jack-man, Cameron Dube and con-tinuing education student Dar-ian Newman are the suspects in the killing, according to the D ��GDYLW��

Newman and Jackman were cited in court Dec. 9 for charges of unlawful trespass, possession of stolen property and accessory before the fact. Dube was also cited for charges of unlawful trespass, possession of stolen property and cruelty to animals, according to a Dec. 10 press re-lease.

PETA has since contacted UVM, requesting that the three students be expelled for their al-leged actions.

“Cruelty to animals should be taken seriously, and I hope the University will send the message that bullying and abus-ing anyone is unacceptable,” said Marta Holmberg, peta2’s director of youth outreach and campaigns.

“I urge you to expel the stu-dents who stole, killed and ate the chicken,” Holmberg said.

“Both [Newman and Jack-man] said the idea to steal and kill the chicken was discussed beforehand, and then the three decided to carry out the plan,” WKH�D ��GDYLW�VWDWHG�

During a police interview

with Newman, he said photo-graphs were taken of the group holding Sweet Dee, and a vid-eo was taken of Dube gutting Sweet Dee on the stovetop, ac-FRUGLQJ�WR�WKH�D ��GDYLW�

³2 ��FHU�%RYD�DQG�,�ZDWFKHG�the video and heard multiple references to ‘tripping’. A male YRLFH�RQ�WKH�YLGHR�VD\V�µWKH�¿�UVW�time you trip and Cam murders a chicken.’

The group on the video is laughing and appears to have no remorse for killing Sweet Dee. Dube is the main focus on the video as he guts Sweet Dee ZLWK�D�EXWWHU�NQLIH�´�WKH�D ��GD�vit stated.

Two brothers of the AGR fraternity had purchased Sweet Dee two years ago and had raised her from a chick, accord-LQJ�WR�WKH�D ��GDYLW�

The charges have since been dropped and the three students have returned to UVM.

“They knew we were good kids who made a mistake, so AGR called the judge asking to drop the charges because we wrote an apology letter,” Jack-man said in an interview with the Cynic.

“I’m really grateful for my relationship with AGR at this point,” she said. “I’m on really good terms with them now. In WKH� IXWXUH�� ,� ZLOO� GH¿�QLWHO\� EH�doing service for AGR, whether it be helping them with their philanthropy or by showing them my gratitude.”

-DFNPDQ� VDLG� VKH� UHÀ�HFWHG�deeply throughout winter break and realizes that her actions are QRW�UHÀ�HFWLYH�RI�ZKR�VKH�KRSHV�to be when she graduates from

the University. She hopes that incoming

¿�UVW�\HDU�VWXGHQWV�KDYH�D�OHVVRQ�to learn from the news of this incident.

“I just want incoming fresh-men to realize that the things \RX�GR�¿�UVW�VHPHVWHU��ZKHQ�\RX�¿�QG� VR� PDQ\� QHZ� IULHQGV� DQG�things are so new and fresh; it’s all fun, but at the end of the day you have to realize why you’re really here at the University,” she said.

“As an animal lover, I love animals to death,” Jackman said. “When I saw that I was kind of astounded. It’s some-thing PETA would do, but hon-estly, obviously I felt remorse.”

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WALKER SULTZBACH The Vermont Cynic

The chicken coop belonging to the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity sits on their property Jan. 30. A group of

students stole and ate one of the fraternity’s chickens in December. They were not expelled from UVM.

Bill could legalize sale of marijuana

A Vermont state senator in-troduced a bill this year to legal-ize recreational marijuana.

Sen. David Zuckerman, at a pro-marijuana rally earlier this month, argued that it’s easier for most underage people to obtain unregulated marijuana than it is to get alcohol, which is regulated by the state.

In legalizing recreational marijuana, it would make it PRUH� GL ��FXOW� IRU� \RXQJHU� SHR�ple to obtain, he said.

A report recently released by WKH� QRQSUR¿�W� 5$1'� FRUSRUD�tion, an independent research company, examines Vermont marijuana use and the potential EHQH¿�WV� OHJDOL]DWLRQ� FRXOG� FUH�ate.

The state could gain $20-75 million in tax revenue from the sale of marijuana.

Estimates in Washington state and Colorado far exceeded reality, according to the report.

Gov. Shumlin, a known ad-vocate for legalization, said that without further data, the time might not be right yet.

With Alaska and Oregon ready to legalize marijuana next year, the data may be available sooner than predicted.

In order for Vermont to IXOO\� EHQH¿�W� IURP� OHJDOL]DWLRQ��though, black market marijuana sales would have to be stopped.

Between 60,000 and 100,000 Vermonters use mari-juana, spending $125-225 mil-lion annually, according to esti-

mates from RAND.One UVM dealer, when

asked if he feared loss of busi-ness to legal vendors, said he wasn’t afraid at all.

“Street prices of marijuana would still be far lower than whatever any new store would sell it for,” he said.

Legalized marijuana in Ver-mont would probably be re-stricted to consumers over the age of 21, like it is in Colorado and Washington, Zuckerman said.

“I don’t think it would be harder [to get] ... There will al-ways be dealers, especially at a place like UVM,” sophomore Mallory Foster said.

Both the dealer and Foster said getting rid of marijuana’s bad reputation is key to its legal-ization.

“When I went to my doctor and told him I smoked pot a few times a week, he told me that I might as well be doing heroin,” the dealer said.

UVM’s image will not be damaged by this legislation, Zuckerman said.

“I don’t think changing how we ‘deal with pot’ in society and in Vermont necessarily changes the perception of what UVM is,” Zuckerman said.

“I mean, UVM is a well re-garded academic institution and frankly, people smoke pot at Harvard and Stanford and schools that are well beyond what UVM is regarded as,” he said.

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Board of trustees set for meeting

The board of trustees will be holding a meeting Feb. 5-7 on WKH�IRXUWK�À�RRU�RI�WKH�'XGOH\��+�Davis Center.

“The board of trustees has full legal responsibility and authority for the University of Vermont, including entire man-agement and control of property DQG� D �DLUV� RI� WKH� 8QLYHUVLW\�´�according to their website.

The board of trustees sets and approves policies, budgets and strategic planning. The board also appoints the presi-dent of the University, the web-site stated.

At the upcoming meeting, topics being discussed include an update on the upcoming STEM project, according to the board book.

UVM’s largest ever capi-tal project to date will bring a state-of-the-art complex of labs, classrooms and research facili-ties to campus starting in 2016, according to an October 2014 Cynic article.

Another topic on the agenda for the Feb. 5-7 meeting is the possibility of the NCAA athletes being paid for competing. This is something that has never oc-cured in the country before.

To see a copy of the board book, and a schedule outlining all meeting topics visit

bit.ly/1Dr6z0s.

Hannah KearnsNews Editor

In November, Simpson Din-ing Hall’s dishwasher broke down due to a faulty heating component. It still hasn’t been ¿[HG�

Melissa Zelazny, general manager for Sodexo Dining Ser-vices at UVM, oversees the func-tioning of the dining halls across the University and manages all food service related operations.

“The only problematic dish-washer that we’ve had has been on Redstone,” Zelazny said. “We had some issues last spring, which we had corrected and we operated all summer over there.”

“Last year I lived on Red-stone and there were plastic utensils and paper plates used RQ�WZR�GLHUHQW�RFFDVLRQV�´�VDLG�junior David Polson.

“I feel like they’ve done a good job of limiting how it af-fects us as students,” said soph-omore Ned Smith.

All food service establish-ments in Vermont must have dishwashers that wash dishes at 10 degrees higher than the na-tional average. This means that dishes must be washed at a tem-perature of 171 degrees, accord-

ing the state of Vermont’s health department.

The booster, which regulates the water temperature within Simpson’s dishwasher, broke down and failed to meet this re-quirement, Zelazny said.

“We’ve been working on a EXQFK�RI�GLHUHQW�¿[HV�IRU�WKDW�and they’ve worked for a period of time but then something else will happen or based on vol-ume the temperature will drop and unfortunately we’ll have to switch to paper and its not op-timal but we want to make sure everybody is safe so we’ve been making compromises there,” Zelazny said.

“The booster that is cur-rently in there wasn’t one hun-dred percent stainless steel and that was posing problems with buildup of ionization of the wa-ter coming in and creating some blockages, so we had to go back in and put in a stainless steel booster,” Zelazny said.

In order to keep the dining hall functioning, paper plates and biodegradable utensils have been brought into the facility.

“We estimate that we are go-ing through about 7,000 pieces of disposable dining wear a day,” Zelazny said.

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NEWS 3 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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OLIVER POMAZI The Vermont Cynic

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UVM’s Master Housing Plan is trying to redesign the UVM campus for the fall 2017 semes-ter.

“We’re looking at where stu-dents should be living that bring them greater success,” said An-nie Stevens, vice provost for the GLYLVLRQ�RI�VWXGHQW�DDLUV��

“We want to make it so that ¿UVW�\HDU� VWXGHQWV� DUH� FORVH� WR�Central Campus and that they have access to the resources they need. We want to give them a strong start,” she said.

According to the plan, the outdated Chittenden, Buckham and Wills dorms on Central campus will be knocked down this summer and replaced by a new dorm, complete with 650 beds and a 500-seat dining hall.

“The age, the size and ef-¿FLHQF\� RI� WKDW� FRPSOH[� LV� D�prime example of something that should be taken down and

replaced to meet our needs,” said Robert Vaughan, director of capital planning and manage-ment.

Instead of trying to renovate these buildings, the University has chosen to demolish and re-place them with a new facility.

“There’s only so much you can do with concrete walls and concrete ceilings,” Vaughan said about the dorms. “Altering the buildings themselves would be too expensive.”

Everybody likes [the Central dorms] because of their loca-tion, not so much the size of the room,” Vaughan said.

The average size of the dorms in CBW is 150-155 square feet, whereas the average for the rest of the campus ranges anywhere from 170-220 square feet, Vaughan said.

Alternative housing will be provided in the mean time, Ste-vens said.

“We will be housing upper-classmen and transfer students

who want to live on campus on Quarry Hill and in the Sheraton Hotel,” she said.

The Housing Master Plan addresses both living options for all students, Stevens said.

“Approximately 5,000 stu-dents live on-campus,” she said.

Most of these students are ¿UVW�DQG�VHFRQG�\HDUV�

Only 14 percent of juniors and seniors, or 700 students, live on campus, Stevens said.

“The juniors and seniors that do live on-campus live here, I think, because of the sense of community they feel from Re-sLife programs like Living and Learning and being close to classes,” Stevens said.

Senior Kate Cude has lived ERWK�RQ�DQG�R�FDPSXV�

“I think both living options have pros and cons,” Cude said. “Living on-campus is more con-venient for classes, but it can be loud and you have to share liv-ing space with other people,” She said, “I really like the sense

of independence that I get from OLYLQJ�R�FDPSXV�´

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There have been talks be-tween the city of Burlington and the University to develop living spaces downtown for upper-classmen in the future, but no set plans have been made.

As for now, the Housing Master Plan will create space to renovate and reallocate some of the University’s on-campus population as the University prepares for the next decade of residential life.

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JON POLSON The Vermont Cynic

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Jan. 2412:36 a.m.

Police services received a report of vandalism in Mercy hall. A maintenance door lead-ing to the roof hatch, which is usually kept locked, had dam-aged locks. Someone apparent-ly attempted to pick the locks

and go on the roof.

1:32 a.m. Police services arrived at

the Harris-Millis residence hall to check on an intoxicated stu-dent. The female student hit a door and damaged her tooth. The Burlington Fire Depart-ment brought the subject to the UVM Medical Center and a report has been sent to the Center for Student Ethics & Standards.

Jan. 252:48 p.m.

A student called UVM po-lice services, concerned about an intoxicated friend in Simp-son Hall. Police located the student, who was then sent to Act 1, the 24-hour supervised VKHOWHU� IRU� GHWR[L¿FDWLRQ�� 7KH�blood alcohol content of the student was .215 percent. A re-port has been sent to Center for Student Ethics & Standards.

9:47 a.m. Police services received a

report of vandalism in Univer-sity Heights North. An exit sign was torn down, and the ceiling tiles above were damaged.

CRIME LOG

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Alcohol, cigarettes and soda may all be entering the same health category, and soon there could be a tax to prove it.

The Vermont Bever-age Tax proposal is a 2 cent per ounce state-wide tax on sugar-sweetened bever-ages including soft drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened teas and more.

“UVM already banned bottled water, now the drinks we can purchase are going to be taxed, that’s bullshit,” senior Nick Usen said.

Vermont rejected similar beverage tax proposals in 2011, 2013 and 2014.

There is already a peti-

tion with over 7,000 names ¿�JKWLQJ� WKH� ����� SURSRVDO��according to the Stop the Vermont Beverage Tax web-site.

“Vermonters don’t need another tax to know what is best for our families,” ac-cording to the website.

A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola contains 39 grams of sugar, equaling about 9 tea-spoons of sugar.

This is more than the daily recommended serving of 9 teaspoons for men and 6 teaspoons for women, ac-cording to livestrong.com.

The “empty calories” gained from these bever-ages are the biggest source of added sugars in Ameri-cans’ diets, according to healthiervt.org

“We have an obesity epi-demic in our country and we need every tool in the toolbox in order to bend the curve in the increase in prevalence of obesity,” said Dr. Rachel Johnson, nutri-tion professor at UVM.

Sugar-sweetened bever-ages are associated with a higher risk of obesity, as well as an increased risk of devel-oping Type 2 diabetes, hy-pertension, coronary heart disease and obesity-related cancers, Johnson said.

“I think people are going to be really upset,” senior Olivia Hart said.

“I feel like the public doesn’t really know much about nutrition and health in general and they don’t realize that the amount of sugar in the soda they con-sume is really unhealthy,” she said.

But Johnson said the ed-ucation will require funding.

“A sugar-sweetened beverage tax could provide funding to do public edu-

cation campaigns around reducing intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages,” she said.

Public policy is one of the most powerful mechanisms of change because it has the ability to reform society to “make the healthy choice the easy choice,” according to Harvard School of public health’s website.

“A tax on sodas, juice drinks, sports drinks, teas and other beverages is not the answer, education is,” according to the Stop the Vermont Beverage Tax Website.

In addition to education campaigns, Johnson said part of the tax proposal is to use funds to help subsidize

healthcare and subsidize the price of fruits and vegetables for low income families.

A beverage tax may also KHOS� R �VHW� WKH� VRFLHWDO� FRVW�of treating the diseases that result from high intakes of sugary drinks, Johnson said.

Around 11 percent of calories that are consumed by youths in America come from sugar-sweetened bev-erages, according to the Rhode Island department of health website.

The consumption of sug-ar-sweetened drinks has ac-FRXQWHG�IRU�FORVH�WR�RQH�¿�IWK�of the weight gained by the U.S. population from 1977-2007, according to the Al-liance For a Healthier Ver-mont website.

A similar sugar-sweet-enend beverage tax was implemented in Mexico last year .

The tax was associated with a 10 percent decrease in consumption and about a 6 percent drop in drink sales, according to a Jan. 11 article in the International Busi-ness Times.

7KH� QDWLRQ¶V� ¿�UVW� VRGD�tax was enacted in Berkeley, California Nov. 4, 2014, ac-cording to Forbes magazine.

If the Vermont Beverage Tax is passed, Vermont will EH� WKH� ¿�UVW� VWDWH� WR� HQDFW� D�statewide soda tax, Johnson said.

Black and White

Potential tax on sweetened drinks in Vt.Life

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ANABEL SOSA The Vermont CynicDr. Rachel Johnson, professor in the College of Agriculture, discusses the sugar sweetened beverage tax in Marsh Life Science on Jan. 29.

We have an obestity

epidemic in our country and we need every tool in

the toolbox in order to bend

the curve in the the increase in

prevelance of obesity.

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This chart shows how many gallons of sugar-sweetened beverages Ver-mont consumes each year and the possible yearly tax revenue that could result from taxing those beverages, according to the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity website.

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Humans of UVM

Maybe it’s not evident, but diversity is real here at UVM. The diversity exists in personalities, upbringing, interests, religion, sexual-

ity, you name it. In New York City, Brandon Stanton, of Humans of New York, roams the streets looking for hints of humanity to inter-twine us all.

$W�890��0DULVVD�/DQR�and Harper Simpson are here to do the same.

ROSs O'DONOHUGH“Bad ideas worry me; ideas that aren’t progressive. That’s what worries me about the world.”

KELSEY NEUBAUER “I was feeling really depressed. I went down to the

waterfront. I felt like I was coming into a rebirth. No one was there. It was complete, utter aloneness. I have never felt more alone and I have never in my life felt more okay about being alone.”

CONNOR UMSTED“I got this tattoo for my mom when she was really sick

last year. She had a heart condition with a 2 percent surviv-al rate. And she made it. “Where the Wild Things Are” was our favorite book to read when I was growing up. When it got to this part in the book we would all jump around and go crazy hitting each other with pillows and screaming.”

“Did she like the tattoo?”“Loved it. But she was mad it didn’t say ‘Mom,’ so I got

this one on my leg.”

Photos by Natalie Williams

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3DULV��¿QGLQJ�ORYH�DQG�HDUQ-ing over $10,000 in crowd-funding for his book, a UVM alumni has published a novel about making life-changing decisions.

Samuél Lopez Barrantes, a 2010 graduate, has writ-ten a novel, “Slim and the Beast,” about two men try-ing to escape a stalker and a KXUULFDQH��7KHQ�WKH�GXR�¿QG�safety in a bar, said Angela Melamud, marketing man-ager for Inkshares.

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Barrantes said he wrote the novel from his experi-ences after graduating from UVM and moving to Paris to pursue writing.

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But it wasn’t until Bar-rantes had been rejected from 14 master’s programs and attempted to write his ¿UVW�QRYHO�WKDW�KH�GHFLGHG�WR�become a writer.

“It was the moment I got rejected from all these pro-grams and accepted my nov-el as crap,” he said. “That’s when I really fell in love with writing, because I chose I am going to do it regardless.”

Barrantes’ former UVM advisor, professor Jonathan Huener, said he was a “stu-dent of tremendous abil-ity and talent” aided by his studies in foreign languages and European studies.

“Students often don’t re-alize what foreign languages do in improving your writing

immensely,” Huener said. Like the characters in

his novel, Barrantes faced a choice between two careers and many interests.

“I was good at academics, I was expected to become an academic. But I also wanted to go to Paris and write a novel,” he said.

Junior Hannah Cole said she thinks her post-gradu-ate future could involve an English major and writing.

“I think employers want to hire liberal arts majors because of their critical thinking skills,” Cole said. “I would love any job as long as I get to write.”

When it comes to choos-ing a path, Barrantes said

that “asking the questions are much more important than deciding the answers.”

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Barrantes’ novel “Slim and the Beast,” is now on sale on Inkshares’ website and available in paperback.

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Small arts center wins big

The leader behind the grant’s proposal and the vision it conveyed was DJ Hellerman, a curator and the director of exhibitions at Burlington City Arts.

The grant was provided by the Andy Warhol Foun-dation.

“I don’t think I ever made a choice to work in the arts, it was just always what I did,” Hellerman said. “I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.”

While two new exhibi-tions just opened at the BCA Center on Church Street, Hellerman said he is ready to put plans in motion and put the grant to use right away.

“In Motion,” a collec-tion of abstract work from UVM alumni Ethan Bond-Watts and Nancy H. Tablin,

opened Jan. 30 and will be on display at the BCA Cen-ter until March 7.

“Our idea is exhibitions and artist residencies,” Hellerman said. “We’re bringing artists to Vermont to make and exhibit work. I want artists to be able to connect with the commu-

nity. It’s just a better expe-rience for the community when there’s a human being behind the object.”

Hellerman cited sup-porting artists who are mak-ing new work as the stron-gest part of BCA’s grant proposal.

“We’re exhibiting [the

new work] and creating a community relationship,” he said. “The content is challenging, the work is challenging and then the way they’re presenting it to the public is challenging. That’s the edge. It’s taking things that are uncomfort-able and unfamiliar and dif-

ferent, and really support-ing them.”

While implementing the project has left Hellerman short on time, he said that is the fun part.

“We really wanted to get moving,” Hellerman said.

³>7KH� VWD� LV@� OHDQ��There’s no fat, there’s no extra help. We have volun-teers and things, but we’re on all the time.”

Though this may sound like a stressful job to some, Hellerman said he remains driven.

“There’s always going to be a challenge,” he said.

“If there isn’t, we’re not doing what we said we’re going to be doing. We’re not pushing ourselves. When things get comfortable and easy, it’s probably because you’re not pushing hard enough.”

Hellerman said working in such a small place doesn’t limit BCA, the center makes room for new ideas and sends more out into the world.

This creates bigger op-portunities that are larger than BCA,” Hellerman said.

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The hip-hop community was shocked and saddened at the sudden passing of Steven Rodriguez, 26, also known as A$AP Yams. He died Jan. 18.

Rodriguez was the founder and mastermind behind A$AP Mob.

He was a hip-hop ency-clopedia. His vast knowl-edge of the genre allowed him to mold several suc-cessful rappers, most nota-bly A$AP Rocky.

The majority of his younger years were spent consuming hip-hop in any way he could.

His collection, much of which was stored in his memory, ranged in styles coming from all over the country.

Rodriguez is the one who brought gold teeth and Houston-style production to New York City.

He helped bring about a new wave of hip-hop through the rappers he managed, both with A$AP and his own label, Yambo-rghini Records.

The short, stocky man with a birthmarked face and heavily-tattooed arms became a familiar image in Rocky’s acclaimed music videos, but that’s about as

ÀDVK\�DV�5RGULJXH]�JRW��He preferred to excer-

cise his power from behind the scenes and let his stars shine.

Rodriguez also man-aged rappers such as Vince Staples and A$AP Ferg. The variety of styles his clients VKRZ� UHÀHFWV� KLV� WUHPHQ-dous knowledge of hip-hop culture.

The cause of his death has yet to be announced, but exactly how Rodriguez passed has little to do with who he was and his legacy.

He may not have a fa-mous album himself, but he played a major role in the creation and promotion of several others.

Rodriguez’s Tumblr ac-count is where Rocky’s “Purple Swag” video de-buted, and he all but hand-picked each song on both of

Rocky’s major projects to date.

He didn’t write Rocky’s lyrics for him, but he got producers Clams Casino and SpaceGhostPurrp involved. And when Rodriguez posted the “Purple Swag” video, he made the kind of hip-hop history he spent his child-hood studying.

+LV�LQÀXHQFH�GRHVQ¶W�HQG�when he does.

Rocky’s yet to be re-leased album is a produc-tion collaboration between Rodriguez and acclaimed producer Danger Mouse.

The force Rodriguez ex-erts on hip-hop isn’t con-¿QHG�WR�WKH�PXVLF�KH�SK\VL-cally helped make.

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Rapper rests in peace

Spoken word artist takes on Burlington

Higher Ground patrons can expect much more than music this month.

%XGG\� :DNH¿HOG�� WKH�three-time spoken word world champion and ac-claimed poet, is returning to Burlington Feb. 10 to per-form at Higher Ground.

:DNH¿HOG� LV� FXUUHQWO\�touring the country per-forming his work.

“I get to be myself for a OLYLQJ�´� :DNH¿HOG� VDLG�� ³$V�a writer, I’ve been writing my ideal self and not only writing it, but trying to live closer to my ideal self.”

:DNH¿HOG� LV� NQRZQ� IRU�being a three-time cham-pion of the performance po-etry tournament, Individual World Poetry Slam.

However, he said he hasn’t competed since 2008. He has been focusing on writing and performing

spoken word, which is very important to him.

“Spoken word is a dem-ocratic platform for every social sensibility, not just DFDGHPLF� SRHWV�´� :DNH¿HOG�said. “Everyone has a story.”

He said he believes that performance can truly en-hance the experience of po-etry and make it more acces-sible.

“I want to surprise peo-ple with how relevant poetry can be,” he said.

:DNH¿HOG� VDLG� KH� EH-lieves poetry is more rel-evant than ever, especially spoken word, which often discusses current issues.

He plans to perform a variety of material at Higher Ground.

“It’s my hope that people pull some valuable tidbits from it and see it as a mu-tual learning experience,” he said.

“Basically gospel,” Wake-¿HOG� VDLG�� ³FKXUFK� ZLWKRXW�the guilt.”

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Jon Zinter

In December, the UVM community lost the voice of a long time DJ at WRUV.

A memorial for LJ Palar-dy will be held at the North End Studios Feb. 14.

Palardy was a key mem-ber of the WRUV commu-nity in part because he was so involved in training new DJs, said senior Cameron Kostyra, who was trained his sophomore year by Palardy.

“[Palardy] probably was responsible for training all of the current DJs [at WRUV],” Laima Harmon, a DJ at WRUV, said.

In his 22 years of volun-teering at WRUV, Harmon said Palardy became the one person everyone else could count on.

³$OO� RI� WKH� VWX� WKDW�needed to be done that the rest of us didn’t really know how to do … he just took it upon himself to do it,” Har-mon said.

“LJ was pretty much the glue that held that sta-tion together for the last 25 years,” Tom Ayres, DJ at WRUV, said.

Among the WRUV DJs, Palardy was known to spend hours at the station, keeping up with logs and

paperwork, cleaning CD cases and maintaining the general order.

At the station, he also became well known for his strictness.

“He was particular,” Harmon said, “we called him the station curmud-geon.”

Despite his particulari-ties, Kostyra said Palardy did it all out of love, and with a great sense of humor.

Palardy is remembered by the WRUV community for his love of jazz as well. At the station, he hosted a jazz radio show that aired Sunday mornings.

“He was profoundly knowledgeable and literate about jazz,” Harmon said. Ayres said Palardy was “an encyclopedia of jazz.”

After a short career in the U.S. Air Force and a lifetime of cultivating his love of mu-sic, “the high point of his life was having a radio show, and he just put his heart and soul into it,” Ayres said.

Not only was he a DJ at WRUV, but “he was [also] involved in a lot of the jazz programming in the Burl-ington community,” Har-mon said. “He worked at [local radio station,] The Radiator … he started that one up.”

Palardy also played some music, Ayres said.

“He played a variety of hand percussion instru-ments,” he said.

Palardy was part of the group Samba Tucada, a Bra-zilian samba street band.

7KH�PHPRULDO�ZLOO�UHÀHFW�his passion in life for mu-sic, both live and played by DJs.

“There’s going to be a combination of live music and DJs,” Ayres said.

The event is open to those who knew Palardy and wish to pay their re-

spects. “There’s [also] going to

be an open mic for people to talk and share stories and reminiscences,” Ayres said.

“I think the real test will come as we move back into the regular semester’s pro-gramming,” Ayres said. “I hope that he’s trained us well enough.”

“There are certain things that we’ve all picked up since he is no longer with us,” Kostyra said.

Harmon said Palardy was so passionate about the station that he fantasized about buying it from the University.

“He wanted to make sure that it was always function-ing,” she said.

“After all, the station is the voice of the University of Vermont,” Harmon said.

In Palardy, the com-munity lost a strong advo-cate for that voice, Harmon said.

WRUV pays respects to DJ

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From delivery boy to owner, he climbed the ranks of a local business and has been working hard to make it grow.

Twenty-seven-year-old Phil Landry, a Champlain College alumnus became owner and operator of Un-known Arts Studio in Janu-ary. He said he has been un-RFLDOO\�UXQQLQJ�LW�IRU�D�IHZ�months.

At the studio, located on Marble Avenue in Burling-ton, Landry produces silk screen printed T-shirts and sweatshirts, conceptualiz-ing ideas and hand-printing everything himself.

“As a business major, I think it’s really inspiring that he owns his own com-pany at such a young age,” sophomore Nicole Dulac said.

Landry, originally from Bennington County, at-tended McCann Technical School in North Adams, Massachusetts, he said, and then went to Champlain, graduating with a graphic design degree.

Landry said he then be-came acquainted with Un-known Arts completely by chance, and dropped his de-livery driver job to work at Unknown Arts after striking up a conversation with the

owners at the time. He said he now runs the

shop. This includes screen printing custom-order clothing as well as creating his own designs, all avail-able online.

During previous sum-mers there has been a sale cart on Church Street, al-though Landry said he has not decided whether or not if he is going to continue it.

The shirt that best rep-resents the brand says “Be-lieve: Champ.”

The shop “doesn’t lend itself to retail,” Landry said. “We are mostly online and get a lot of orders for orga-nizations.”

He has made shirts for Nectar’s, Red Square, Bolton Valley and Sangha.

Landry will occasionally donate his “tester” shirts, the ones he cannot sell, to those in need.

In compensation for the lack of a strong downtown presence, the shirts can be found in other shops, such as Apple Mountain and Burn Gallery.

Ultimately, Landry said he hopes for this to be his only job. He currently has a job at a larger screen print factory during the day and said he comes into the stu-dio in the evenings to pur-sue his passion.

Landry would like to one day grow his business, hire employees, continue to col-laborate with other artists and build relationships with people in the community.

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Band surfs to Burly

The Expendables will be crashing into Higher Ground Feb. 17.

Based in Santa Cruz, California, The Expendables coast along continuing to make their style of music that mixes genres like surf, punk rock, and reggae.

In 2012, the band tried a new style with “Gone Soft,” which was recorded as an acoustic album.

“We decided to do an acoustic album because the

fans wanted it. Then it was just messing with some tempos and melodies to make our songs sound good acoustically,” lead guitarist Raul Bianchi said.

“Whereas a studio al-bum, it’s a whole new pro-cess because you have to come up with new material and expand from there,” he said.

One particular song on this album has a music video unlike any other they have made, Bianchi said.

It incorporates a bit more comedy into their music.

“For [the song] ‘Music 0RYH� 0H�¶� LW� ZDV� WKH� ¿UVW�time we hired a comedy pro-duction group, and we let them run with it,” Bianchi said.”

He said it was really fun to produce and a great video to watch.

The Expendables recent-ly released their sixth album called “Sand in the Sky” and are about to headline their upcoming tour, Winter Blackout 2015.

Bianchi said the band has no preference of where they play. They love to jam everywhere and anywhere.

“Honestly, even if we play in bumfuck-nowhere we’d still love it as long as the crowd is rocking with us,” Bianchi said. “That’s all that really matters to us, man, just the people who come to our shows.”

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dience is in on her opinions and

discoveries.

As such, our views on wheth-

er Syed committed the murder

or not shift from episode to epi-

sode, sometimes within one epi-

sode.

It was riveting to listen to,

and even more entertaining to

talk and debate the various plot

points with the dozens of family

and friends I know who were all

listening, too.

Serial 2 is coming soon to a

public radio station near you.

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missing though. Something we

don’t hear over and over again

but should.

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and you will know what a smile

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natural beauty.

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admire cancer survivors without

treating them as helpless gim-

micked inspirations but rather

people doing what they must to

live.

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objective journalism. Even this

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A trip to the gym this semes-ter may lead to long waits and frustrating searches for the ma-chine you want to use.

“I come early in the month of January because from 3:30 to 7 p.m. it’s like a mob scene,” said graduate student Connor Notes.

Senior William Jenik said that this year is more crowded than previous years.

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COLE WANGSNESS The Vermont CynicSenior William Jenik voices his concern about the overcrowding at Patrick Gym during peak hours this semester.

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Kate PfeiferHead Field Hockey Coach

“Well, being the ski team it’s pretty easy for us. UVM already sells itself as a ski school, so when skiers come to Vermont, it’s an obvious one for us to sell, given our geo-graphic location this far north and with the mountains so close. We get good snow.”

PatrickWeaverHead Nordic Ski Coach

“I think Burlington sells itself. The city of Burlington, the downtown, Church Street, the lake, the mountains, the beaches, east and west. The academic qualifications of the University, with the array of majors, it’s a big selling point. I think also the opportunity to compete at the highest level, Division I athletics, great con-ference, the ability to play the best teams in the country.”

RobDowAssistant Men’s Soccer Coach

“We sell our campus in that we’re a medium-sized school with an outstanding academic offering of close to 100 different majors. We’re a medium-sized city in the heart of ski country, so we have a little bit of the city and a little bit of the country and a great environment for anyone who enjoys taking advantage of the outdoors, as well as the city of Burlington.”

Grant KimballAssistant Women’s Ice Hockey Coach

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SKYE VESELIS The Vermont CynicThe student section cheers on the men’s hockey team. This season, student tickets have been selling out within hours of their release, which has become problematic for some students.

Demand for hockey tickets on the rise

The UVM men’s hockey team is in the midst of one of their best seasons to date.

Although the Catamounts recently lost both games against the No. 3 Boston University, they have posted an impres-sive 15-9-2 record.

The Cats have gained nationwide attention thus far; they are currently UDQNHG� ��WK� LQ� WKH� QDWLRQ�� DQG� VL[WK� LQ�the Hockey East standings.

With how well they have been doing, students have been giving UVM the best advantage a team can get — stands full of a home team crowd.

Hockey tickets go on sale every Mon-day at 9 a.m. for home games.

“This past week against BU, student tickets were sold out in a little over an hour and a half,” said Mike Cairns, assis-

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ern, student tickets were sold out by noon RQ�WKH�¿�UVW�GD\�´�

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Some students are looking at this demand for tickets from another angle, scalping tickets to make money.

With such a high demand for hock-ey tickets, most students don’t have a chance to get a ticket.

Sophomore Haley Grigel is one stu-dent who hasn’t had any luck.

“It’s kind of frustrating because I am a person who wants to see all the hockey games I possibly can, and I think a lot of kids are getting tickets to sell,” Grigel said.

Sophomores Garrett Hazebrouck and

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“It’s ridiculous. I have class when WKH� R ��FH� RSHQV�� DQG� IRU� WKH� SDVW� WZR�weeks I’ve gone there and seen the game crossed out,” Larick said.

This prompts people to turn to alter-native methods to obtain hockey tickets.

“Then you go on Facebook and see kids selling a single ticket for $10. A free ticket for $10, no thank you,” Hazeb-rouck said.

Other students believe that the ticket R ��FH�FRXOG�EH�GRLQJ�PRUH�WR�HQVXUH�WKDW�as many students get tickets as possible.

“I think they should sell a certain number of tickets Monday through Wednesday, giving everyone at least a ¿�JKWLQJ�FKDQFH�´�5LGJH�VDLG��³7KDW�FRXOG�be a potential solution.”

Not everyone is against selling stu-dent tickets.

“It’s a real struggle when it comes to getting up early and getting the tickets, but if it’s a big game like BC or BU, I’ll try KDUGHU�WR�EH�WKHUH�ZKHQ�WKH�R ��FH�RSHQV���I ended up selling my ticket for $15 to a buddy, so I’m not against it at all,” soph-omore Justin Perry said, referring to last weekend’s games against the Terriers.

Whether students are buying tickets just to sell them or not, it doesn’t change the fact that Gutterson Fieldhouse has been packed for every home game.

The Cats have two more home series against Hockey East opponents.

The University of New Hampshire will come to Gutterson Fieldhouse Feb. 6-7 and then No. 18 Merrimack College on Feb. 20-21.

People like to see their home team win, so as long as the Catamounts con-tinue to win, we will see a constant trend of sellout crowds.

Erik Francken

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