What’s up bitches?  Week seven of Angry Ani and still going strong!  To tell you the truth, writing this column this week made me pretty angry considering it was just one of the butt-loads of work I have to complete at this point in the semester and I’m sure […]

All over America, people are taking to the streets in protest. It began with the “Occupy Wall Street” initiative in New York and rapidly spread from city to city. Wall Street was never occupied; New York’s “Finest” saw to that. But demonstrators moved to nearby areas to hold up […]

Between 30,000 and 125,000 Vermont residents suffer from influenza in an typical year. Alarmingly, influenza immunization rates fall far short every year. We are all at risk of contracting the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone six months of age and older receive an […]

So I woke up on this perfect fall morning in New England, in a great mood… and then I went on Facebook and I got really angry.  That’s usually how it goes though, right?  What made me so angry was that the first post in my news feed was […]

I’M BACK BITCHES! So you made it two weeks without having to hear about how angry I am, but think of that as a vacation, because two weeks later, I’m Ani and I’m angry. When I woke up this morning for breakfast I had a bagel.  One freaking average […]

Let me tell you a story: “On the fifteenth of May, in the Jungle of Nool, in the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, he was splashing … enjoying the jungle’s great joys … when Horton the elephant heard a small noise,” writes Dr. Seuss […]

To the Editor: I ask all members of the Lyndon State College community to consider the following facts: 1.)            In the United States, student loan debt now exceeds credit card debt.  (This fact is especially disconcerting when one considers how many college students and graduates carry both types of […]

Can you imagine being born in a refugee camp, living out your entire life in the camp, and finally dying there. Yet this is what a good many Palestinians have experienced.  More than sixty years ago, innocent people were uprooted from their homes and forced to live in a […]

Welcome to the first edition of the 2011/2012 Student Government Association President’s Corner.  I plan to write a short update in The Critic once every week to update the LSC student body on the work of the SGA.  I hope the year has been off to a great start […]

Many news stories seem to repeat themselves endlessly. A case in point: the decades old attempt, mainly by the United States, to get Israel and Palestine to the negotiation table to assist them in resolving differences regarding Palestinian statehood. I use the word assist loosely. I see it more […]