Joanne St. Lewis, a renowned Canadian law professor at the University of Ottawa, visited Johnson the week of Oct. 20 to present a series of talks. St. Lewis is also a distinguished human rights activist...

It wasn’t until January 2013 that the U.S. Defense Department renounced the combat exclusion policy that banned women from engaging in ground combat. Since WWI the U.S. Army has employed women, the...

Senior Hayden Archbold recently launched her clothing company Gemini Apparel. “It’s going pretty well,” she said. “Right now I’m sending stuff out to promoters and sponsors and just trying...

We rushed from crowded diner to crowded diner, with only an hour to spare before I had to work. I don’t know what the hell we were thinking, trying to get a quick brunch Sunday morning in downtown Burlington! Our...

We’ve all seen them, the two cast-iron figures standing watch over McClelland hill. They are the work of Won Lee, a Korean-born Canadian artist who graduated with an MFA in studio arts from JSC in 2006....

September of this year marked the 40th anniversary of the United Church of Underhill’s Old Fashion Harvest Market, and what started as a way to bring the community closer together has grown into a local...

Robyn Ochs is an activist and a speaker, and has won numerous awards for her activism. She is the editor of the 42-country anthology “Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World” and “The Bi...

Oh, Zia. You future space waitress you. I know it’s the year 3128 A.D., but aren’t we over the D. B. Cooper case? D. B. Cooper, the pseudonym used by the brilliant and sophisticated hijacker who stole...

So there was Zia in the kitchen, and it was still 3128. She was fixing Old USAs for an elderly couple, just waiting on the french fries. Leaning against the steel over the grease bucket, grease steam snaking...

Creatures made of steel are paired with large, dream-like oil paintings. They transform the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery into an atmospheric den capturing the majesty of the natural world, beautifying...

“You have beautiful eyes,” says a young Antonio Banderas, cutting in front of my friend in the middle of the street. Her face lights up and she beams, although it’s the third time that day a hunky...

They gathered like eager Christians ready for communion. They gathered like the throng of the called at the end of Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” anticipating the...

This is our seventh and last job of the day. I’d be lying if I said I am not excited. With my cotton t-shirt clinging to my back, the little short-sleeves rolled up for a more suitable tan line, I peer...

  Stepping off of La Terrazza de Manolo that Sunday afternoon began a week-long journey through a cloud of smoke and diesel. 1950s Chevrolets, Studebakers and other antique cars populated the...

I had passed it at least a dozen times by this point, midway through our week in Havana, part of The Art and Culture of Cuba class. It was a hole in the wall joint if I ever saw one, unassuming in every...

Pat McGinn, Johnson State College junior, has been a professional fingerboarder for almost a decade and continues to be involved in the fingerboard community. While the idea of a fingerboard may seem odd...

Erin Keyes is a junior pursuing a bachelor’s in studio arts. Keyes has taken a three-week course at Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and hopes to have a career as a make-up artist focusing on gore and sci-fi, two...

There’s hardly a student that hasn’t felt the burden of stress while in their college years. So much so that many news sources have dove deeper into the reasons why. An article entitled Lessons from...

Liz Beatty-Owens, a Johnson State College senior majoring in the interdisciplinary study of political-science, photojournalism, and sociology was raised in Calais with a politically active family. Some...

Editor’s note: Jim Union’s Christian name is Richard Schlong, and he was once a private eye; kidnapped by his former nemesis, Kaufman (now known as “K.”), and subjected to plastic surgery, Richard...

Jessica Peterson, a junior at Johnson State College, is an experienced traveler, having gone to Australia, New Zealand, London, Spain, Costa Rica, and spent from September 2012 to June of 2013 in Kiryat...

Editor’s note: Jim Union’s Christian name is Richard Schlong, and he was once a private eye; kidnapped by his former nemesis, Kaufman (now known as “K.”), and subjected to plastic surgery, Richard...

JSC student Jeff Ketcham doesn’t do everything backwards. Just walking. Nearly every Thursday, Jeff can be found walking backwards though the quad – to class, in the lunch line and around the dorms....

Ashley Bourdeau is a Johnson State College senior majoring in psychology. She’ll be vying for the title of Miss Vermont April 26. Her long-term goal is going to graduate JSC with a counseling degree....

Editor’s note: Jim Union’s Christian name is Richard Schlong, and he was once a private eye; kidnapped by his former nemesis, Kaufman, and subjected to plastic surgery, Richard has now become an agent...

Note: Prince William's name changed to protect him. Four months ago I was lying in my own stew, reeking of scotch, breath, and an unnatural amount of natural human filth in my mildewed office in Johnson,...

A Johnson State College professor for of 21 years, Susan Calza, talks about her art, life, and her future.  At the end of the spring semester she will be retiring to focus on her personal art and travel....

Peggy Edwards works for Sodexo as the chef for the vegan and vegetarian station in the Stearns dining hall. Edwards, a vegan herself, serves up great-tasting healthy food from her own original recipes. How...

  Nearly 100 years ago, then-President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11 Armistice Day. He said, “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in...