Recent comments in /f/vermont

Greenlettertam t1_j7tyy8g wrote

Reply to comment by Necessary_Cat_4801 in Vermont’s rates of homelessness are (almost) the worst in the country by DaddyBobMN

I have a friend that lives in a hotel and has been homeless. He also has a job. He claims he’s tried Capstone and all the major venues for being housed, and he cannot find an affordable place to live. He’s also a native VTer and has epilepsy. He can’t drive, and I do not think he has a mental issue or he’s an addict. I am not sure what’s going on with him.

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Real-Pierre-Delecto2 t1_j7txp5c wrote

Reply to comment by captainogbleedmore in Please help support our campus libraries! by prettypeepers

They say facilities.

Information, Physical, and Technological Resources

7.21 The institution has sufficient and appropriate information, physical, and technological resources necessary for the achievement of its purposes wherever and however its academic programs are offered. It devotes sufficient resources to maintain and enhance its information, physical, and technological resources. (See also 4.10)

7.22 The institution provides access to library and information resources, services, facilities, and qualified staff sufficient to support its teaching and learning environments and its research and public service mission as appropriate.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j7tvidx wrote

Reply to comment by Real-Pierre-Delecto2 in Vermont State Trooper Giancarlo DiGenova resigns amid stolen Rolex investigation by BudsKind802

I go back and forth but that is my own issue with the legal system as setup. It seems to turns verdicts into a game.

Sleigh does give back a ton, he is at a human level a great guy, my issue is how he reconciles that with getting people who he knows are guilty as fuck off due to loopholes and gotchas in the legal system.

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somedudevt t1_j7tug6d wrote

Reply to comment by vtdadbod007 in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

As a mid 30s person, it amazes me the number of dinosaurs on this REDDIT. Like I feel like I’m on the old side of acceptable Reddit users, but these people are arguing that college students need to be taught to use computers.

What the hell is the first 13 years of public education doing if it’s not teaching them that? I know in 2001 I was taking classes on how to use computers in HS, shit in 1998 we were learning to research online in 6th grade. By the time I got to college I had experience with Jstor and other scholarly journals, and utilizing things like LOC and the NYT archives.

Kids these days are born with tech in hand. My niece could find her cartoons on an iPad before she could form a full sentence and read.

I was probably on the early side of the no text book thing, I refused to buy them when I was at Lyndon, getting stuff I needed in digital form successfully most of the time. But as I progressed in my history and poli sci studies I never felt like I was struggling to get sources or access info.

Once a doc is digital it doesn’t need any maintenance, and anything that has value to society has been digitized in the last 40 years.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_j7tttiz wrote

Reply to Vermont State Trooper Giancarlo DiGenova resigns amid stolen Rolex investigation by BudsKind802

Davis Sleigh is a savage defense lawyer and will probably get him off. The cop is lying through his teeth but since is no physical proof he will get an aquitial if they even bother to charge him at all.

> “In fact, what they’re saying is that the watches are the same (and) as far as I know, they have no proof of that at all, and so this really is a situation from my point of view, that innocent coincidence has led to this,”

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somedudevt t1_j7tt8yb wrote

Reply to comment by 8valvegrowl in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

This is dinosaur think. If you need it it’s online. There is no way the LSC library archives have anything that the world needs that isn’t digital. There may be some local history stuff in the old Fiche files, but I was a history major at Lyndon 15 years ago and NEVER used the library for anything other than library of Congress book exchange, and that was 15 years ago when eBooks were just starting out. I could at the time get primary sources online in almost every case I needed them. The last 20 years of you and I solving captchas to verify we are not computers has allowed digitization of countless primary sources.

Last point is that we are talking about LSC, JSC, and VTC. This isn’t Harvard or Yale where their may be donated collections of important things that may only exist in that place.

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flambeaway t1_j7tmjbh wrote

Reply to comment by memorytheatre in A probably unpopular take on the VT State College Libraries by vtdadbod007

While I agree with the science on learning styles, it's pretty clear from context that (while they may not have used the best phrasing) the previous commenter is getting at the fact that different people, even of the same generation, have different knowledge bases and skills.

Trends aside, even Gen-Zers didn't pop out of the womb being great at scholarly internet research. Even though OP is a self-proclaimed master of it, many of their coursemates may not be depending on their experiences.

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