Sunday, March 26, 2023
Castleton pitcher Riley Orr has been on fire in the first few weeks of the season. The Queensbury native has produced back-to-back Little East Conference Pitcher of the Week honors with his performances on the mound. His 14 strikeouts against Mississippi University for Women in Montgomery, Alabama marked Castleton’s best […]
When Izzy Segui walked into the 1787 Room in the Campus Center, the excited energy was palpable. She sat in her seat, her foot tapping anxiously on the floor as the other seats in the room began to fill up with dozens of other students. She held her fake money […]
When I went to Herrick Auditorium on a Thursday night earlier this month, it was the first time I had sat down to watch a film in a darkened room surrounded by relative strangers since before the pandemic. Especially in our post-pandemic age, but also due to the dominance of […]
Under the dim, golden lights of The Castleton University Bank Gallery is the Tomásio: Abstractions of a Metaphorical World collection, filled with paintings exploding with layered texture and vivid colors of any you can imagine, abstracting the beauty of the natural world and the emotions it evokes within us. Thomas […]
The blisters covering my feet halted my journey up my grandfather’s mountain in West Rutland. In retrospect, ankle socks were not the best idea. The rest of the family kept going, all nine of them. I was out of breath, and only 10 minutes on the straight incline toward the […]
The last time I wrote something for the Spartan, things were a bit different. It was fall of 2021, and we weren’t sitting as close to seeing the name “Castleton University” banished to the ethers of history as we are now. Those who know me may wonder if my opinion […]
The schools were closing. Planes were being grounded. Stores were mobbed by desperate shoppers. I very vividly remember sitting on the couch with my family in early March, when it all had just begun, asking my parents, “Hey, did anything like this happen when you were a kid?” No. No, […]
Doesn’t it feel like Will Smith has become irrelevant after his infamous slap during the 2022 Oscars? He’s human and humans are meant to make mistakes, but his mistake feels like it’s cost him his juice. The happiest people tend to be those with no regrets. Now, I know Smith […]
For the second year in a row, Castleton’s NAACP chapter hosted a Black History Fair, inviting everyone at Castleton to join in the Campus Center to learn about and celebrate Black history. Last year’s event took place in the walkway outside Fireside – but this year they wanted to upgrade. […]
At 3:44 p.m. Feb. 7, students, faculty and staff across all Vermont State University campuses received an email. The email, from University President Parwinder Grewal, announced a new decision to transition to an all-digital, university-wide library and repurpose the library spaces on each campus. That evening, individuals from every campus […]
