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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

Alternative break trips scheduled for spring

Ian Major September 29, 2015

Johnson State Colleges Badger Alternative Breaks Program is performing its twenty-fifth consecutive year of providing student-oriented community services. This year’s JSC BAB theme-based trips will...

The bare facts about VAC modeling

Hunter Mallette September 29, 2015

Take it off. Take it all off and earn $15.00 an hour in the process. As the posters around campus featuring strategically placed fig leaves note, the Visual Arts Center is seeking versatile models...

Collaborative envisions Vermont as hub: says, “Yes we cannabis!”

Collaborative envisions Vermont as hub: says, “Yes we cannabis!”

Travis LeClair September 29, 2015

The Vermont Cannabis Collaborative doesn’t just want to legalize weed, they want to do it safely. Then they want to make it profitable for Vermonters. Their vision is profitable in the Vermont,...

Warming shelter awaiting permits in Mo’Ville

Kayla Friedrich September 29, 2015

Used with Permission from News & Citizen. The Lamoille County Continuum of Care is seeking state funding and working on obtaining permits to establish a warming shelter and resource center on Harrel...

A note from the SGA

Mary Fafard September 16, 2015

The Johnson State College Student Government Association has been refreshed with new elects for the 2015-2016 academic year. Eight new Senators are taking a seat at the meeting table along with a new Vice...

Leslie Johnson hired in Behavioral Sciences

Briana Morin September 16, 2015

Dr. Leslie Johnson, a social psychologist, has joined the full-time faculty of the Behavioral Sciences department. “Dr. Johnson is the first social psychologist to join the full-time faculty at JSC,”...

Performing Arts department’s

Performing Arts department’s

Marilyn Tagliavia September 16, 2015

For 12 years, Isaac Eddy looked from a stage at audiences worldwide that could identify him by little more than his expressive eyes. From behind a head covered in blue paint, he performed as a member of...

Jensen Beach

Jensen Beach’s “The Apartment” featured in The New Yorker

Sam Hartley September 16, 2015

“The Apartment,” a short story by Assistant Professor of Writing and Literature Jensen Beach, was featured in the Aug. 31 issue of The New Yorker, regarded by many as America’s preeminent literary...

Around the world and back again: Will Davis joins Dibden community

Around the world and back again: Will Davis joins Dibden community

Avery Bliss September 16, 2015

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Will Davis is the new technical director of Dibden Center for the Arts, recently hired to replace long-time Dibden director Jan Herder following his resignation...

JSC alumnus returns to his alma mater to coach basketball

JSC alumnus returns to his alma mater to coach basketball

Sam Hartley September 16, 2015

You can go home again, at least if you’re Johnson State alumnus Miles Smith Jr., who is returning to the athletics department this fall as head coach of the men’s basketball team. Smith, who is...

Margo Warden

College ramps up first-year retention efforts

Briana Morin September 16, 2015

For many colleges, especially public ones, retention rates from first to second year have long been problematic, and JSC is no exception. While the college’s current rate of about 66 percent marks...

Trio receives 5-year grant

Trio receives 5-year grant

Kayla Friedrich September 16, 2015

Johnson State College’s federally funded Student Support Services TRiO Program has received a grant for another five years, as of Wednesday, July 15, 2015, to continue to be able to serve the 235 students...

Hastings retires from Village of Johnson positions, but he’ll be back

Hastings retires from Village of Johnson positions, but he’ll be back

Kayla Friedrich September 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Article used with permission from News & Citizen. Duncan Hastings has been a mainstay in the Johnson Municipal Building for 14 years, as the municipal manager, road commissioner, deputy...

Revitalizing downtown

Kayla Friedrich September 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Article used with permission from News & Citizen. Nearly 14 years ago, the town of Johnson began a project to revitalize Main Street, and since then the efforts have expanded across...

Logging opens forest for next generation

Logging opens forest for next generation

Ian Major September 16, 2015

Johnson State College logging operations continued this past summer where a few areas within the disc golf course were dry enough for harvesting. Following last winter’s delay, operations followed...

Progress is slow

New Subway opening in Johnson

Kayla Friedrich, Editor in Chief September 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Article used with permission from News & Citizen. The old Piezanos building on Rte 15 in Johnson has been everything from a laundry mat/ coffee shop, to a garage to a sandwich and pizza...

Mary Fafard

Intern surrounded by clowns

Marilyn Tagliavia, Princess Editor September 16, 2015

Circus Smirkus dished a Johnson State College student a recipe for future career success this summer at its headquarters in Greensboro, Vt. The non-profit international youth circus provided Mary Fafard...

Antique cars are everywhere in Havana, Cuba

Class to visit Cuba

Sam Hartley, Staff Writer September 16, 2015

This Spring JSC will offer a class called “The Art and Culture of Cuba” which will include a week-long trip to Cuba, one of the last remaining socialist states governed by a Marxist-Leninist Communist...

Roof upgrades

Avery Bliss, Staff Writier September 16, 2015

After a summer of work, repairs to the roofs of Diden, Stearns and SHAPE are nearing completion, according to JSC Controller Toby Stewart. Work was started during the summer, following the conclusion...

SGA president Abdel-Fatah eyes a busy agenda

SGA president Abdel-Fatah eyes a busy agenda

Ian Major, Staff Reporter September 16, 2015

Newly elected Johnson State College Student Government Association President, Nasser Abdel-Fatah has been hard at work preparing ways to show students what the SGA can do for them. Majoring in Environmental...

A new president at the helm

A new president at the helm

Kayla Friedrich, Editor in chief September 16, 2015

Settling in as the new president at Johnson State College, Elaine Collins has been getting to know the area and the people. She says everyone has been very welcoming, and it has been a great transition...

Debate targets Ukraine: who’s to blame for this tragedy?

Briana Morin May 7, 2015

Some of the hottest topics in today’s news have to do with Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the Ukraine. On April 21 in the Ellsworth room, JSC’s Politics Club brought Associate Professor of Humanities...

Barbara Murphy and her grandson, Tate

An afternoon of gratitude

Kayla Friedrich, Editor in Chief May 7, 2015

A celebration of the leadership of Barbara E. Murphy was held on April 28, 2015 as a forum to say thank you and goodbye to the retiring Johnson State president of 14 years. To kick off the event, local...

Travis LeClair and Josh Lemay

Four BFA students win fellowships to Vermont Studio Center

Meredith Andrews May 7, 2015

The participants for this summer’s Vermont Studio Center Fellowship have been chosen. The four BFA students will be offered housing and a space to work at the Vermont Studio Center in downtown Johnson...

Lack of participation may lower your G.P.A.

Gabriella Fecher May 7, 2015

Think back to the first day of the semester when the professor gave you a syllabus and you gave him a groan. As you flipped through the syllabus (only skimming the information, obviously) you saw what...

Logging project to resume this summer

Chelsea Bingham, Staff reporter May 7, 2015

Winter logging operations on campus have ceased according to JSC Controller Toby Stewart, who said the roads had become too muddy for operations to continue. Summer logging in two other areas will commence...

SGA ponders fruit trees, clubs and a vote of no confidence

Ian Major, Staff reporter May 7, 2015

The Student Government Association’s final meeting under the direction of out-going president Ben Simone covered a number of issues, from the class of 2015 gifts to additional allocations for student...

ART build to launch this summer

ART build to launch this summer

Ian Major, Staff reporter May 7, 2015

Johnson State College Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department, Michael Zebrowski is creating a new summer art program that will be offered starting this summer called ART Build. Zebrowski is...

Howrigan apologizes, censorship unintended

Howrigan apologizes, censorship unintended

Kayla Friedrich, Editor-in-chief May 7, 2015

Partially locked out and blocked out of the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery on Friday, April 24 with paper covering the windows and a sign that read “Warning: mature content art show in progress,” Professor...

Fall’s common read: pencils and dreams

Kayla Friedrich, Editor-in-chief May 7, 2015

In its ninth year, the Common Book program will give JSC’s incoming freshman a look at how to turn their biggest dreams into reality. A committee of staff, faculty, and a one student selected “The...

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