Lyndon State has been attracting more and more attention from prospective students. This semester alone has 111 new students that were not enrolled previously in the fall. That’s a 25 percent increase from the few new students who came onboard last spring. One new face is that of Mia […]
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Angry Ani Speaks Out: Christmas. Not Xmas!!!
(Singing) I’m dreaming of a white Christmas… NOT ALL OF THIS EFFING RAIN IN LYNDONVILLE. Come on mother nature, it’s December, give me some snow so I’ll finally have something to do other than bitch about things that make me angry. I feel like half of the students who go […]
Suspicions Confirmed?
A number of years ago, I was driving through a small Southern town when I was forced to stop by a man standing in the road. It turned out he was selling peanut brittle. I didn’t want any and was a little annoyed that I’d been stopped by a peddler. […]
Welcome to the Party: Two New Clubs
Two new clubs passed at the last student government meeting. The Literary Society and the Gay Straight Alliance both got lots of support from SGA. The Literary Society passed unanimously, while the Gay Straight Alliance passed with only one abstention. Both clubs have been successful on campus in the past, […]
$10 Million or Bust
The finish line is in sight for the largest financial campaign Lyndon State College has undertaken. The second century campaign to raise $10 million is less than $500,000 from its goal. “We had never done anything more than a $500,000 concentrated campaign before this campaign,” said dean of institutional advancement […]
Editor of the Critic: Communist?
A certain letter to the editor from a giant purple people eater spliced with a fairy in last week’s edition of the Critic caused a minor uproar in production, generated a rift between co-workers and divided readers. Never before (at least in my estimation) has two seemingly harmless sentences caused […]
Editorial: Haters Gonna Hate
#8220;Men walk on moon”-The New York Times “Shuttle explodes, survivors unlikely”-The Louisville Times “Army rift reported in Beijing…Bush bars arms sales”- The New York Times “Terror’s toll”-The Herald Dispatch Rhymes, alliteration, and puns are literary devices which, when used properly, are very effective at capturing a reader’s attention. Their use […]
Letter to the Editor
To the Esteemed Editor, Rarely do I read the rousing reports revealed in the ‘Critic’. I often wondered why I wouldn’t want to browse the work of eight unwavering editors. But while contemplating why this “Critic’ creation made me so cross, I came to the conclusion that copious quantities of […]
Men’s Basketball Searching for First Win
The first nine games of the 2011-2012 regular season are ones that the Lyndon State College men’s basketball team would like to forget. Sitting at an 0-9 record, the team will look to getting healthier and adding more depth to the roster for the second semester of the basketball season. […]