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Basement Medicine

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

Basement Medicine

New course to focus on climate change

Kayla Friedrich November 14, 2013

  The impact of global increases of carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel use, and increases of methane and nitrous oxide due to agriculture is the primary factor that many scientists believe could...

Nash Garceau surveys the terrain park

Work begins on terrain park rehab

Max van Wie November 14, 2013

The snowboard park is undergoing significant renovations in preparation for winter with the Ski and Ride Club using money raised from the October Fest RailJam to help fund excavations in the park. Preliminary...

Award highlights essential function of academic advisors

Travis LeClair November 14, 2013

At the end of each school year one of the awards conferred at Honors Convocation recognizes excellence in advising and highlights a faculty/staff function that is easy to overlook yet often crucial in...

Whitmore encouraged by freshmen and transfer response

Kayla Friedrich November 14, 2013

  Freshmen and Transfer students who have yet to complete the AlcoholEdu and Haven initiatives will be contacted by Assistant Dean of Students Michele Whitmore within the next couple of weeks. Typically...

SLAP seeks student input for event planning

Victoria Greenia November 14, 2013

  Provocative acronym aside, Student Led Activity Programming, which is behind many of the Student Government Association-sponsored activities on campus, is a concept that has gone back decades...

Alcohol Awareness Week offered expanded focus, more diverse programming

Ben Simone November 14, 2013

  JSC Alcohol Awareness Week, which concluded Oct. 26, has seen an expansion of the traditional focus on education and prevention to include providing ongoing healthy alternatives to drinking. The...

Participants in CJ Day’s second panel: Bridget Shanahan, Ken Picard, Ross Connelly and Mike Donoghue

Community Journalism Day: technology changes, but the power of the press remains the same

Lindsay Brown, Kayla Friedrich, and Tom Benton November 14, 2013

    Community Journalism Day attracted exactly the sort of curiousity that the day’s panelists said is the crucial ingredient in journalism. The day consisted of four panels and...

Comparative enrollment
(Graph by Dough Eastman)

Enrollment continues downward trend but some retention figures are up

Josh Lemay October 31, 2013

The first official 2013 enrollment figures present a mixed picture. Although overall enrollment numbers continue to decline, the most significant drops are within the campus-based undergraduate population. While...

The old Packard plant, soon to be demolished
(geek.digest.com)

JSC group headed to Detroit in April

Kayla Friedrich October 31, 2013

From April 6 to April 11, 13 freshmen and two upperclassmen will be taking a service trip to Detroit along with Executive Director of Laraway School Greg Stefanski and Johnson State’s Learning Resource...

Model UN President Colin Santee discusses the club
(photo by Victoria Greenia)

Model UN club will take on world issues at Harvard

Victoria Greenia October 30, 2013

Most people only hear second-hand about the discussions brought to the United Nations. Hard decisions on what to do, if anything, about allegations of chemical weapons used on Syrian citizens or how to...

Solar panels will be installed on campus, by the main gate on the hillside beside the Frisbee golf course.
(photo by Kayla Friedrich)

For some ratepayers, solar panels will have a dark side

Kayla Friedrich October 30, 2013

Renewable solar energy is coming to Johnson State College in partnership with the Burlington-based company Encore Redevelopment at no cost to students. Over the course of the summer, Johnson State College...

SGA wrestles with budget cuts

Elizabeth Corbin October 30, 2013

Cuts in the SGA budget and their effects on funding student clubs, events and projects dominated the Oct. 23 meeting of the Student Government Association. "We took a big hit in our budget because of...

New campus lights and poles should aid winter navigation

Mason Phillips October 30, 2013

Work on enhancing outdoor lighting on campus continues as six new poles have been installed in several places on the main campus during the past few weeks. In addition upgrades to existing installations...

Mariah Howland
(photo by Gunter Kleist)

Anime Club to present panel at convention

Luca Keushguerian October 30, 2013

The Anime club will be bringing 10 students to the only Anime convention in Vermont, Bakuretsu con, which will be held in the Hampton Inn in Colchester Nov.1-3. For the club, this is the biggest event...

Assistant Director of Admissions Joye Lyon talks with prospective students and parents at JSC’s open house Oct. 19
(photo by Victoria Greenia)

October Open House showcases JSC

Victoria Greenia October 30, 2013

JSC held its first open house of the year to entice undecided college-bound seniors to choose its rural campus setting as their home for the next four years of their lives. The Oct. 19 Saturday morning...

JSC students Ben Watson and Liz Beatty-Owens collected signatures for a petition in the Stearns Lobby. The petition alleges that Sodexo’s policy changes are illegal and unfair.(photo by Mariah Howland)

Sodexo policy changes suspended after outcry

Mariah Howland and Tom Benton October 30, 2013

Sodexo, Johnson State College’s food supplier, planned on cutting benefits for a number of employees on Jan. 1. Sodexo said it was doing so in accordance with the federal Affordable Care Act, popularly...

Thomas Sumner
 (photo by Victoria Greenia)

For veterans, adjusting to college life can be a difficult transition

Victoria Greenia October 30, 2013

The adjustment from military life and culture to the radically different college environment can be a difficult one for United States military veterans, especially for ones who have served in combat. Responding...

Mike Donoghue

Community Journalism Day will focus on Vt. media issues

Lindsay Brown October 30, 2013

After a two-year hiatus, Community Journalism Day will once again be held at Johnson State College as an event sponsored by the Communications and Community Media program and the Community Media Project...

Eugene Sapadin

Sapadin to be honored in memorial celebration at JSC

BM Staff October 17, 2013

Johnson State College will host a memorial celebration of former Professor of Humanities, Eugene Sapadin, who taught at JSC for 39 years before retiring in spring of 2011.   The event will begin at 2...

Doyle

Vermont Historical Society honors Doyle

Lindsay Brown October 16, 2013

The Vermont Historical Society presented its 2013 President’s Award to Senator William Doyle and has established the William T. Doyle History Day Fund in his honor. Doyle has been a professor of humanities...

JSC student aid unaffected by shutdown

JSC student aid unaffected by shutdown

Kayla Friedrich October 15, 2013

Johnson State College students should not be affected by the government shut down that was triggered by the start of the new budget year on Oct. 1, 2013, and a lack of support from republicans for the...

Investment Club gears up for Vermont Showdown competition

Mason Phillips October 15, 2013

  The 3-year-old student-run Finance and Investment Club is preparing for another semester-long Vermont Showdown following two wins and last year’s near-extinction due to declining interest. The...

Robert Gervais

Gervais hopes to support intructors in teaching with technology

Kayla Friedrich October 15, 2013

  After growing up in Enosburg, VT and working as director of technology at the Enosburg Town School District, JSC’s Head Women's Softball Coach Robert Gervais will step up to the plate as Johnson...

Cassandra Burnham (DJ Louise) and Mariah Burnett (DJ Thelma) play their favorite tunes.

WJSC starting the semester out strong with new DJs

Mariah Howland October 15, 2013

Johnson State’s community radio station is starting the semester out strong with a lot of new DJs and increasing coverage of campus and community events. WJSC, restarted in 2012 after a year off air,...

Volunteers get ready to work on revitalizing the community garden.

JSC community garden gets revitalized

Kayla Friedrich October 15, 2013

The JSC community garden, which has been located behind the college apartments for seven years, is being resurrected after a 3-year hiatus. The initial idea for resurrection cropped up a few years ago...

Las Marthas

New VPT partnership to bring “Community Cinema” to JSC

Mariah Howland October 15, 2013

  In a new partnership with Vermont Public Television, JSC will be pre-airing documentaries from the series “Independent Lens” throughout the school year as part of VPT’s “Community Cinema”...

Governor Shumlin speaks at the ribbon cutting of Johnsons Sterling Market.

Sterling Market grand opening emphasizes power of community

Lindsay Brown October 15, 2013

After two years of negotiating, planning, and renovating, the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony was held at Johnson’s Sterling Market on Oct. 3 and was attended by local and state officials as...

Vermont opiate epidemic fueled by home diversion of prescription drugs

Vermont opiate epidemic fueled by home diversion of prescription drugs

Emma Post October 10, 2013

Ed. Note: This is the second of a two-part series. What started off as a disturbing trend in now being regarded by public health and law enforcement officials across the United States as an epidemic. According...

Eugene Sapadin

Remembering Eugene Sapadin

Tom Benton September 25, 2013

Former JSC Humanities Professor Eugene Sapadin passed away on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Vermont Respite House in Williston. He was 73. Sapadin taught at JSC for 39 years before retiring in 2011. The...

Vermont State Employee Association union members gather at the State House

Staff union rallies for support at State House

Lindsay Brown September 25, 2013

The Vermont State Employee Association (VSEA) union members, in cooperation with other union members, Vermont State College (VSC) students, faculty, and legislators pulled together in a sea of green t-shirts...

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