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Basement Medicine

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Basement Medicine

The student-run community news site of Vermont State University - Johnson

Basement Medicine

In the hoofprints of history: saving the horses of the Conquistadors

In the hoofprints of history: saving the horses of the Conquistadors

Magen Farley May 3, 2012

How often does a piece of history try to eat your notebook? Or knock you off your chair while attempting to get its backside scratched? This particular piece of history’s name is Augustine, a beautiful...

Mireault to be featured on PBS NOVA series

Mireault to be featured on PBS NOVA series

Donny Eaton May 3, 2012

Research being conducted at Johnson State College will be showcased on the PBS television series, NOVA. Professor of Behavioral Sciences Dr. Gina Mireault’s ground-breaking investigations into infant...

New York, New York

New York, New York

Shannon Edmonds May 3, 2012

“Ah, smell those bus fumes!” Daddy Warbucks says as he takes Annie onto 5th Avenue. “There’s no air like the air of New York. Come on, you slow pokes! We gotta get to the Roxy before the prices...

A Survivor’s Guide to the Big Apple

A Survivor’s Guide to the Big Apple

Shannon Edmonds May 3, 2012

If you’re planning on going to New York any time soon, and if you’ve never been, here are some tips that you should keep in mind. Most of them come from Mary, but there are a few from me thrown in...

Passion, instinct & diffusing nuclear devices

Passion, instinct & diffusing nuclear devices

Ben Algar May 3, 2012

George Saunders is the author of five books of short stories, and one nonfiction book. He has been awarded both a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has appeared on “The Colbert Report”...

The Stiff and the Dead

The Stiff and the Dead

Richard Schlong, Private Investigator May 3, 2012

“Just stick it in there,” he said. “Not too fast. That’s it. Woah – easy there. Almost had an accident. Oh, yeah. That’s it.” The coroner slammed the steel door on the female body....

Modes, obsessions and tastes: a relationship to poetry

Modes, obsessions and tastes: a relationship to poetry

Ben Algar and Olivia Lawrance and April 12, 2012

Gabriel Fried is a poet and an editor. He is the author of “Making the New Lamb Take.” He is the poetry editor at Persea Books, an independently owned company located in New York City, NY. Fried is...

Two Heart to Handle

Two Heart to Handle

Richard Schlong, Private Investigator April 12, 2012

I was heading out the door for my annual check-up when I got a call from my old pal Biceps De Bruder. He’d taken off some time ago, on a pilgrimage around America, searching for hidden truths. I asked...

Green Mountain Girls: new-fashioned farming the old-fashioned way

Green Mountain Girls: new-fashioned farming the old-fashioned way

Magen Farley April 12, 2012

We live in a world where people do not always stop to consider what is going into their mouths. Most of the food we eat has been transported from thousands of miles away or from factories that don’t...

The Skin Artist

The Skin Artist

Leigh Robtoy, Correspondent March 22, 2012

  As you walk through the door of Event Horizon Custom Tattoo in downtown Burlington, the smell of rubbing alcohol permeates the air, and the bright green walls are merely a backdrop to the many...

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being the Fat Chef

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being the Fat Chef

Richard Schlong, Private Investigator March 22, 2012

First I was afraid. I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live— Then a spatula slapped across my face and things became clear. It was like this. There was a rotund Englishman, Kaufman, squinting...

Walking along Cannery Row with Steinbeck and Kerouac

Walking along Cannery Row with Steinbeck and Kerouac

Whitney Nellé, Correspondent March 22, 2012

When I set out for California State University, Monterey Bay from Hyde Park, Vt., in August 2010 as part of a student exchange program, I hardly knew where I was going. The school’s website had surprisingly...

Darn Tough Socks: Loyal, local and lucrative

Darn Tough Socks: Loyal, local and lucrative

Donny Eaton, Staff Reporter, Copy Editor March 22, 2012

Rick Cabot is a third-generation sock maker. Cabot, the owner of Darn Tough Vermont, visited JSC on Thursday, March 15, to speak about the brand which saved his family’s mill in Northfield, Vermont....

Learning with Les Enfants de Dieu

Learning with Les Enfants de Dieu

Leisa Kelsey, Staff Reporter, Copy Editor March 8, 2012

Health Science and Physical Education major Ally Battaille has learned many things since her January arrival at Les Enfants De Dieu in Kigali, Rwanda for the spring semester. Les Enfants De Dieu or...

Fry Me Deadly

Fry Me Deadly

Richard Schlong, Private Investigator March 8, 2012

As I awoke one afternoon from uneasy dreams, I found myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic dick. The plump Englishman at the foot of the bed was the first sign. He held a cigar so long that when...

Naughty Nonna Knows All: advice to the perplexed

Naughty Nonna Knows All: advice to the perplexed

March 8, 2012

Dear Naughty Nonna,   My boyfriend says that if we have sex without a condom at first, that it’s ok as long as he puts it on later. This makes me a little uncomfortable. Is he right? Is...

A dog’s best friend

A dog’s best friend

Magen Farley March 8, 2012

  Walking into Edelweiss Bakery & Café, the customer first gets the impression of a cozy little bakery. A ceramic pig’s head, crowned in flowers and vines, hanging over the specials menu...

Jay Peak puts the summer in winter

Jay Peak puts the summer in winter

Anna Charette, Contributor March 8, 2012

Eighty-six degrees, a slight breeze, sunlight warmth on your skin, a whiff of chlorine and French fries, a trickle of sweat down your back, and a splash of water. But don’t be fooled; this isn’t a...

That good ole’ Vermont spirit

That good ole’ Vermont spirit

Donny Eaton, Staff Reporter, Copy Editor February 16, 2012

At the northern outlet of an ancient smuggling route sits the aptly named Smugglers’ Notch Distillery. The building is inconspicuous, with dark wood siding and plenty of nooks and angles, and it fits...

Confessions of a Snowmaker

Confessions of a Snowmaker

Donny Eaton, Staff Reporter February 16, 2012

Snowmaking, in essence, is a hubris of inverse, Ahabian proportions. Rather than roaming the seas in search of the White Whale, snowmakers roam the alpine heights trying to turn whales into the elusive...

The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow

Richard Schlong, Private Investigator February 2, 2012

It was past Christmas and I was alone. Eva had come and gone as fast and as sweet as the holidays. With her, breaking up was like breaking wind: it reeked of past dinners, some candlelit, some overshadowed...

JSC grads find occupational wellness

JSC grads find occupational wellness

Leisa Kelsey, Staff Reporter, Copy Editor February 2, 2012

Five graduates of Johnson State College met at Sweet Hollow Herbs in Johnson to celebrate the recent Johnson Holiday Jubilee. The store’s proprietor, Amy Kelly, invited Carly Harrison, herbal medicine...

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