2008 Woodie Awards
New Paper on Campus
Seven Days-type publication to come to UVM as alternative to The Vermont Cynic
Laura Pedro - Senior Staff Writer
Issue date: 2/6/07 Section: News
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A new publication will soon be hitting UVM newsstands. The newspaper, called the Wa-ter Tower, is the brainchild of UVM senior and english major Hazel Ryerson, who will act as editor in chief, and English and art history double major Elias Altman, who will serve as managing editor.
"The Water Tower will be a progressive and humorous paper that will cover national and international issues that ffect our generation and the Burlington community, and also be entertaining and use-ful to UVM students," Ryerson said.
The paper will differ from The Cynic in that it does not in-tend to cover local hard news stories.
"It will serve a very differ-ent purpose than The Cynic," Ryerson said. "While we are looking to be a humorous pa-per, we also will have more se-rious articles like culture crit-icism and international news analysis," she said.
Ryerson also said, "We think that there is no such thing as a single perfect, unbi-ased news source," She added that she respects The Cynic and what it does.
Ryerson's main goal is to present a paper with an "in-telligent, insightful, and pro-gressive perspective" to UVM students. "We want to make a paper that when you read it you're both amused and in-formed."
Another goal of The Wa-ter Tower is to be short pa-per, starting with about eight pages, Ryerson said. "We hope that people will read the whole thing cover to cover in one sit-ting," she said.
The Water Tower will con-tain articles that are entirely humorous, articles that are en-tirely serious, and some that are a mixture of the two," Ry-erson said.
The Water Tower is ex-pected to start printing in two to three weeks. Ryer-son said the Web site for The Water Tower should be up and running hope-fully the end of next week. Once it begins printing, The Water Tower will be a weekly publication.
Currently the Water Tower has over 30 students who are involved, Ryerson said.
Ryerson said that she thinks the same people who read The Cynic will also read The Water Tower.
"The Water Tower will be a progressive and humorous paper that will cover national and international issues that ffect our generation and the Burlington community, and also be entertaining and use-ful to UVM students," Ryerson said.
The paper will differ from The Cynic in that it does not in-tend to cover local hard news stories.
"It will serve a very differ-ent purpose than The Cynic," Ryerson said. "While we are looking to be a humorous pa-per, we also will have more se-rious articles like culture crit-icism and international news analysis," she said.
Ryerson also said, "We think that there is no such thing as a single perfect, unbi-ased news source," She added that she respects The Cynic and what it does.
Ryerson's main goal is to present a paper with an "in-telligent, insightful, and pro-gressive perspective" to UVM students. "We want to make a paper that when you read it you're both amused and in-formed."
Another goal of The Wa-ter Tower is to be short pa-per, starting with about eight pages, Ryerson said. "We hope that people will read the whole thing cover to cover in one sit-ting," she said.
The Water Tower will con-tain articles that are entirely humorous, articles that are en-tirely serious, and some that are a mixture of the two," Ry-erson said.
The Water Tower is ex-pected to start printing in two to three weeks. Ryer-son said the Web site for The Water Tower should be up and running hope-fully the end of next week. Once it begins printing, The Water Tower will be a weekly publication.
Currently the Water Tower has over 30 students who are involved, Ryerson said.
Ryerson said that she thinks the same people who read The Cynic will also read The Water Tower.
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