BY AARON ASHTON On Sunday, October 13, the Jeffrey Brace Memorial was unveiled in East Poultney. Minutes before the cloth was removed from the sign next to the street, the crowd gathered to witness an important moment for the descendants of Jeffrey Brace and the community of Poultney. A member of the Poultney Historical Society [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Textbooks: The Fleecing of Undergrads
BY JENNIFER MONTANGE As thousands of college students returned to school this August, many scrambled to secure educational loans and set up payment plans. Under these circumstances, it’s easy to overlook the several hundred dollar bill awaiting them at the campus bookstore. As classes begin, each student will be confronted with a list of textbooks [...]
Irresponsible economics ruining senior citizens
BY MELISSA MARKSTROM Did you know that in order to qualify for heating assistance in Vermont a family of one must make under $1,234 per month, and to qualify for food stamps one must make less than $867? On top of that, there’s a resource minimum in which one can’t exceed a certain dollar amount [...]
Decisions, Considerations, Truth
BY NOAH PAPPANO Having an inveterate laissez faire attitude towards government and politics, it is strange I should find myself fired up about November 4. All summer I watched the news channels every time I could. However, when the stinking Olympics began, I couldn’t find any news to my great chagrin, as everyone in the [...]
Doing Good While Doing Well
BY ROBERT PUDNER “I’m not an anarchist. Well… maybe I’m an anarchist.” With these words starts a long bus ride to a Victorian hostel outside of downtown Philadelphia. From October 4-5, students and alums from twenty-six colleges and universities around the United States gathered in a small lecture hall at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton [...]
Where are your manners?
BY JENNA CALVI What ever happened to respect your elders? How about, you get further with sugar than you do with salt? These common sayings are lost among our student body, demonstrated through a discouraging pattern of disrespect for, in particular, Chartwell’s and Maintenance staff. How is it that, in a community of students who [...]
Frolicking Fall Fairies
BY JAMES ROMMY TOBERTSON Radical Faeries are a world wide group predominantly made up of gay men, but there are no restrictions as to who can be a Radical Faerie. The Faerie movement began in 1979 when Harry Hay, his partner John Burnside and other veterans of various aspects of gay liberation issued the call [...]
Balancing Delicately: Back at the ranch
BY RONNIE BLACK Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the laundry room… There are no sharks, but every one of the washing machines is functioning on a demonic level. The washing machine company does a horrible job of keeping the machines functioning and free of quarter jams. Either the machine [...]
You’ll Remember Being There
BY NOAH PAPPANO You’ll remember being there. Questioning, doubting, fearing, loathing, loving, hating, gripping, wanting to be done with it, for once, for all, for good. You went in with so many expectations, you went in with high hopes. What happened? I thought I gave all of me, for once, in celebration of this moment, [...]
Halloween and The Drag Ball
by Ronnie Black– I was gearing up for the Drag Ball. I figured that somebody should cover this night of debauchery and it was on Halloween of all things. I was having a beer with some friends and we were showing off our costumes. I was dressed as a serf, there were three girls one [...]
