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...
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As the process of removing old and out-of-date library resources at the Willey Library continues, the extent of the initiative remains unclear. The process of removing older and out of date resources, also known as deselection, began over the summer, and has carried over into the current school year.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...
Tuition cost at NVU increases by 2.9 percent
Adriana Eldred, Photo & Web Editor
October 24, 2019
News of a 2.9 percent tuition increase approaching is just riding the shirttails of the press release by the VSCS affirming its support of both NVU campuses to remain open. Along with endorsing a two-campus NVU, the VSCS board of trustees say they are looking to make “plans to strengthen the system’s...
New Schools of Academia
Rebecca Flieder, Editor-In-Chief
October 24, 2019
Provost Nolan Atkins has announced that the NVU faculty has “approved a new organizational structure for our academic programs.” All majors will now be reorganized into groups, known as schools. These four schools will each have a school head, who will report to the Provost. The new schools are...
Visitors among us: a Vermont writer’s search for Sasquatch
Ari Erlbaum, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2019
The following quote about Sasquatch is a bit long and unwieldy. But Christopher Noël thought it was important enough to edit it as he spoke, even dictating to me where to put parentheses and semicolons. “Either they simply exist, or else the tens of thousands of eyewitness reports that have been...
Digging up dirt to clean up campus
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2019
Composting on campus has been successful despite a few missteps, including an incident during opening weekend when non-compostable material was found in four compost receptacles. The issue was that there were utensils and cups present that were made from a type of plastic known as bioplastic. These...
Former Dewey Women’s Center now Student Hub: “Making college less complicated”
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2019
The student hub is a source of information and guidance for students to simplify the process of acquiring information about the services and offices available to them. The new initiative was created by NVU-Johnson senior Seana Rowell and supervised by Associate Dean of Students Michele Whitmore. The...
Pasta prevalence persistently pesters “Peggy’s Plate” patrons
Thomas Streeter, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2019
Despite lamentations on an Instagram account about pervasive pasta prevalence in Stearns, General Manager of Dining Services Tom Fondakowski wants you to know that, in the dining hall, vegans get love too. On Saturdays and Sundays, he explained, “[The left hot-meal station] is actually not a vegan...
NVU majors: out with the old and in with the new
Allison Irons, Staff Reporter
October 3, 2019
One of the oft-spoken about benefits of unification, the addition of new majors, has, in the past, been overlooked in order to focus on more crucial pieces of the task. Now that the main parts of uniting the two campuses are underway, departments have started focusing in on new majors and new ways to...
VSCS announces tuition hikes up to 2.9 percent
Rebecca Flieder, Editor-In-Chief
October 3, 2019
Back in May, it was announced that tuition for students in the VSCS would be going up by 1 percent, after $2.5 million in state support funding brought the hikes down from 3 percent. The reduction to 1% from 3% increase was purported to benefit full time Vermont students with annual savings of $192...
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