Vermont restaurants need help
Justin Robertiello, Student
December 12, 2019
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2.1 percent unemployment rate, Vermont has reached the lowest in the country. Having a low unemployment rate sounds like it would be a good thing; however, this is not the case for restaurant owners. Chefs everywhere throughout the Vermont area are...
Longtime public safety officer retires
Cody Blaisedell, Student
December 12, 2019
For 28 years, Mike Laflin has been a familiar figure on the Johnson campus: with a long blond ponytail and what initially appears to be a laconic, gruff manner, he has been an anchor in the office of public safety, not to mention the man most associated with issuing parking tickets. “I’ve been here...
Trustees approve new degree program in Writing and Literature department
Allison Irons, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2019
Beginning in fall 2020, the Writing and Literature department will host a new degree program: Professional Writing, Editing, and Publishing. The proposed major was approved by the Vermont State Colleges Board of Trustees at its Dec. 2 meeting. At the same time, the current BA in Journalism will be...
Phonathon brings in donations, stories from alumni
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2019
This year’s annual fundraising phone-a-thon is still underway and as of presstime has raised about $5500. The phone-a-thon happens for five weeks from the beginning of November to Dec. 13. During this period, six or seven student callers contact alumni to find out how their life has been since they...
Sciences reconfigure faculty and programs
Adriana Eldred, Photo & Web Editor
December 12, 2019
Bob Genter. Amy Welch. Bill Doyle. Susan Green. Sharon Twigg. Karen Uhlendorf. All were NVU professors who have left within the last few years. Some retired, while others sought alternative career opportunities. Professor Elizabeth Dolci will retire by the end of the spring semester and Professor Tania...
Emergency funds for struggling students
Charlie Page, Student
December 12, 2019
Everyone has an emergency come up now and then. You get back from class, ready for the best nap you’ve ever taken, but as you flop down into bed, you hear a terrifying crunch. You get up to find your glasses in pieces on your bed. How will you see the board in class? In the event of an emergency,...
Dr. Tania Bacchus retires
Ari Erlbaum, Staff Reporter
December 12, 2019
After more than 26 years teaching meteorology, oceanography and other environmental science courses at NVU-Johnson, Tania Bacchus is moving on at the end of this semester. “It’s exciting and sort of a little bit bittersweet in some ways,” Bacchus said. “It’s a new chapter in my life that...
Caitlin Wilkins moves on
November 22, 2019
One of the two first-year advisors has left NVU-Johnson for another position within the University. Caitlin Wilkins, who began her advising work last March, has accepted a position as Assistant Director of Residential Life on the Lyndon campus. Despite her love for working at NVU Johnson, Wilkins...
Student loses all her possessions in recent flood
November 22, 2019
Arriana Crowe first saw her house surrounded by water at 3:30 in the morning Nov. 1. Crowe, a first-year Business Administration student, had been staying at a friend’s house on Halloween night during the heavy rains. She drove to her house in the Twin Bridges area the next morning to get work pants...
Meunier hired as student development coordinator
November 21, 2019
There is a new face in The Academic Support Services Office. Student Development Coordinator Jesse Meunier comes to NVU-Johnson after graduating from NVU-Lyndon with a degree in psychology and human services. Meunier is completing his Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling in the graduate program...
Elaine Harvey returns as NVU-Johnson’s first director of student engagement and persistence
November 21, 2019
Elaine Harvey will return to NVU-Johnson on Dec. 11 to become its first director of student engagement and persistence.The first time that Harvey was at Johnson was back in December of 2012, when she took a position within the athletic department as the assistant athletic director for internal and ex...
Long Range Planning Committee outlines next steps
November 21, 2019
On Oct. 21, the Long Range Planning Committee – comprised of members of the VSCS executive team, including the board of trustees and Chancellor Jeb Spaulding – released a memo highlighting the next steps in securing the future of the Vermont State Colleges System. The memo emphasized the previously...
Library deselection continues anew
November 21, 2019
As the process of removing old and out-of-date library resources at the Willey Library continues, the extent of the initiative remains unclear. The process of removing older and out of date resources, also known as deselection, began over the summer, and has carried over into the current school year. Deselection...
Swipe Out Hunger provides meals for students
Charlie Page, Student
November 7, 2019
One in three college students across the country don’t know where their next meal is going to come from. The Swipe Out Hunger program aims to change that. The Swipe Out Hunger Program is a national campaign to end food insecurity on college campuses. According to Haleigh West, the Service and Leadership...
Jenna’s Promise org. hopes to start addiction treatment programs
Ari Erlbaum, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2019
Jenna’s Promise is a new organization in Johnson seeking to provide services for people in opioid use recovery and fill some broader community needs. Dawn and Greg Tatro are the founders of Jenna’s promise. They watched their daughter Jenna struggle with opioid addiction for six years. “You’re...
Johnson assesses impact after Halloween flooding
Rebecca Flieder, Editor-in-Chief
November 7, 2019
After torrential flooding on Oct. 31, Johnson residents woke up on Nov. 1 to flooded backyards and washed-out roads. According to a Facebook post from Kyle Nuse, at 9:00 a.m, the Johnson select board passed an Emergency Declaration for the town. Route 15 from Community Bank to Jolley’s had to be...
NVU community signs petition calling for more funding
November 7, 2019
Tensions involving the constant constriction of budgets has affected not only students, but staff and faculty as well. Some staff have taken it upon themselves to drive the efforts further. The Vermont State Employee’s Association (VSEA) has created a petition calling on the chancellor, board of trustees...
Badger Alternative Breaks announces trip locations
Allison Irons, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2019
Badger Alternative Breaks, also known as BAB, has set its two service trips for Feb. 2020, and both are unique opportunities for the participants involved in their respective groups. One group of students will be traveling with group leaders Ashley Donahue and Anais Dutton to the Grand Canyon’s...
Green Team seeks EcoLeague membership
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
November 7, 2019
On Oct. 21, members of Green Team, the campus sustainability club, met with NVU President Elaine Collins to discuss the possibility of NVU-Johnson working to become eligible to be invited into The EcoLeague, a group of six colleges that support sustainability through their curriculum and the decisions...
“The Last Elephants” is informative, heartbreaking and well-worth the time
Lisa Monique-Kent, Student
November 7, 2019
I didn’t know. I really didn’t know that taking ivory from elephants meant their deaths. I thought that poachers took part of the ivory, but left the animals alive. That’s not exactly better, but at least in my version the elephant lived. In reality, the animals are left where they are felled,...
I walk the line
Justin Robertiello, Student
November 7, 2019
Editors Note: This is the first in an occasional series featuring students writing about their jobs. Most of those attending NVU work part-time or full-time in addition to their studies. Most people know what it is like to eat in a restaurant, but how many know how to cook in one? It’s 7:00 a.m....
Student Advisory Council seeks members
Adriana Eldred, Photo & Web Editor
November 7, 2019
The President’s Student Advisory Council is an assembly of students across campus whose goal is to provide insight to the student experience, as well as improve and add to campus life that was once missing. Until Oct. 31, Michele Whitmore, associate dean of students and advisor on the council, was...
Seguino’s Radical Empathy a plea for understanding and compassion
Jenn Dezotelle, Student
November 7, 2019
A question posed by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah sparked inspiration in Stephanie Seguino, an artist and economist. “What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity?” Appiah asked in his book, “Cosmopolitanism,” which lead to Seguino’s Radical Empathy exhibit. Seguino has shown...
Commuter housing available to students during winter months
Jenn Dezotelle, Student
October 24, 2019
Bad weather housing is now available for commuter students. As winter approaches, the need for safe travel plans and resources that can be used in the event of unforeseen circumstances grows. Adopted from the NVU-Lyndon campus, commuter housing is now available on the Johnson campus. “Having...
O’Neill urges harm reduction in treatment of opioid addiction
Ari Erlbaum, Staff Reporter
October 24, 2019
Opioid use disorder is a disease, not a personal failing, said Kate O’Neill, and the stigma attached to it makes it harder to get treatment. “We saw again and again peoples’ faces change when they learned that [my sister] had opioid use disorder. Everyone from social workers to the cardiologist...
Parking tickets and passes: an FAQ
Cody Blaisdell, Student
October 24, 2019
As of Oct 25, NVU-Johnson has received about $28,000 in parking permit sales, with incoming students asking the perennial question: where does the money go? In the 2017/2018 academic year, there were $31,000 in permit sales and $37,000 in the following academic year, according to Public Safety Director...
A Call To Action’s work is a pile of trash
Adriana Eldred, Photo & Web Editor
October 24, 2019
You may have noticed the odd sculpture that appeared a few weeks ago on the quad- it’s made mostly of tires, stacked on top of each other to resemble a figure; dirty and decerped items litter around it, along with a banner stretching across its shoulders, written in green paint, “A Call To Action.” This...
New telepresence technology finally functional in WLLC 217
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
October 24, 2019
WLLC room 217 has been dark since the semester’s beginning, despite plans for the former main computer lab in WLLC to have become the largest site for telepresence on campus by summer’s end. As the weeks ticked by, the room remained closed, still not part of the growing telepresence infrastructure...
Hate group stickers appear on campus
Cody Blaisdell, Student
October 24, 2019
The white-nationalist group, Patriot Front, has made its presence on campus known after stickers advertising the group has been seen in several locations on campus within the first week of October. A sticker reading “Better Dead Than Red” showing a red hammer and sickle, a common symbol linked to...
Water main break at the Apartments
Rebecca Flieder, Editor-In-Chief
October 24, 2019
On Sep. 26, water was shut off to the campus apartment complex in order to fix “a water line break,” according to an email from Barb Flathers. It was projected that the maintenance would take two hours, and be back on by 1:00. At 6:00, Flathers emailed again, and informed residents that the water...
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