Going into Sunday’s game, UVM’s men’s soccer team was undefeated, and no one expected Harvard to change that fact. And yet, the Ivy League school did with a whopping three-point shutout victory over the Catamounts.

Nothing screams ‘choke’ more than losing to team of Ivy Leaguers whose win-loss ratio was a paltry .500 for the season.

UVM’s tr...

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Last Monday, Rose Long, a member of UVM’s cycling team, was struck by a red Jeep Cherokee-style vehicle while riding with her teammates on Pearl Street. The damage to the 20-year-old college student’s face was so extensive that she will undergo facial reconstruction at the end of the week.

According to the police report, Long was hit by the ca...

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The semester has only just begun, and five University of Vermont RAs have already lost their jobs for getting the party "started" a bit prematurely.

According to Annie Stevens, the Assistant Vice President of Student and Campus Life, five residential advisors were terminated for engaging in some pre-semester binge drinking at one of the school...

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Typos – the bane of every blogger, student and editor’s existence.

There’s nothing more embarrassing than having a professor or overly critical reader call you out on a misplaced comma, misspelled word or misused diction. No one can escape the scrutinizing eye of a “Typo Nazi” – not even the United States government.

The Associated Press rep...

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The US jumped all over China when reports broke out that their Olympic gymnasts weren’t exactly 16 years old. We condemned the Chinese for pushing their little girls into intense training sessions just to add a few medals to China’s Olympic medal case. Well, it seems that this is just a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

UVM has just su...

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Surprise, surprise, the two men who claim to have found the body of Bigfoot, Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, didn’t have much to offer the media at their press conference this afternoon in Palo Alto—except bravado. One DNA sample has been tested so far, a sample which showed traces of human DNA, opossum DNA, and the DNA of another unidentified organ...

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During a random "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search, I stumbled upon an odd study about my secret fascination, Asians.

Yes, I usually turn to my Asian brethren for small pleasures, including but not limited to: dancing, fashion suggestions, intensity. And, yes, I admit that there's still much I do not know about Asians, but this study ran along ...

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Vermonters are notorious for taking on global causes, some make more sense than others.

This summer Burlington, Vermont may have displaced refugees from Iraq and Myanmar chilling out on the UVM campus through the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program (VRRP). The housing on campus is only temporary. This means the residents might not have a plac...

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Yes, Burlington, Vermont gets a lot of sunshine and a nice breeze from Lake Champlain, but there seems to be a shadow cast on the UVM campus. No worries, the auditors are taking care of it as we speak.

*We reported it to you first -- the millions of dollars being shelled out to a data management firm for our “benefit.” Now, the whole deal with ...

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