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Losing Last-Minute Financing, VT Catholic College Cancels Finals Week, Begins Closing

Bill Gnade

One of three Vermont colleges slated to close at the end of this academic year has canceled finals week.

The College of St. Joseph, located in Rutland and founded in 1956, announced that it will indeed be closing at the end of August after an interested "financial partner" withdrew from talks with the school in March.

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VT Senate Seeks To Amend State Constitution To Prohibit — Slavery

Bill Gnade

Despite federal laws banning slavery, and despite the fact Vermont's constitution was the first in America to ban it, the VT senate has passed a proposal to amend the constitution to "clarify" that all forms of slavery are banned.

As it presently reads, the Vermont Constitution states in Article 1 that "no person born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law, to serve any person as a servant, slave or apprentice, after arriving to the age of twenty-one years, unless bound by the person's own consent, after arriving to such age, or bound by law for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, or the like."

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