For Jo Lyn Ostler, helping people win the battle of physical health is her life. She ran the Waterbury Recreation Department for 20 years and even owns her own private practice for recreation and physical consulting. But her physical health was important to her as well and other places […]
Month: February 2011
Issues with Adderall
Amanda only had to take a 30 milligram pill of Adderall (a type of amphetamine) to realize that it wasn’t worth the risk. She was constantly anxious and trying to get homework done even when there was nothing else that she had to finish for classes. She was not prescribed […]
Students study in Germany
he class was taught by a third-party organization in Berlin, Germany, with exchange students from various countries including South Korea, Australia and China. The teacher spoke very little English. “We took a five-week, three-hour-a-day, five-days-a-week German course that began two days after arriving there,” said Brent Gardner, a Norwich architecture […]
“What was the best date you have ever been on?”
NU paintball faces West Point
Clifford Pebely did not feel the cold breezing by him; he was running too fast to notice it. The Norwich cadet ran to a building, catching his breath. All around there were the sounds of pops and people yelling. He turned the corner and saw someone who had the same […]
NU students travel to Africa
Emily Button, 20, a junior majoring in psychology and education from Highgate, Vt., traveled to Gambia, Africa, with her professor, Dian Burn, and other classmates over winter break to teach students English and writing at Gambia Elementary. The students and faculty flew to Africa and stayed for two weeks. […]
The Sugarbush Shuttle
In the winter months, Reverend William Wick spends his Saturdays doing what he loves most: Skiing the slopes of the Sugarbush Ski Mountain in Warren and teaching others how to ski. When Wick is not strapped into his skis, he is commonly found on another hill, at Norwich University, […]
Wrestling team recruits new, young players
Charles Constantino started wrestling his freshman year of high school, after several years of training in the martial arts. The transition from judo to wrestling was difficult, but not impossible. Coming from four years of wrestling, and placing fifth overall in a Virginia tournament, the switch from high school […]
100s night takes a different approach
After watching one of the best hockey games at Norwich, in which Norwich tied Middlebury 4 to 4 in overtime, many seniors left the game excited as they headed to another event planned for that evening. When Stephen Webber arrived at the second event he was amazed at the […]
Norwich Cadets Compete in Sandhurst Military Skills Competition
While most students have yet to settle into their classrooms during the first weeks of the spring semester, Stanley Kareta, a 22-year-old mechanical engineering senior from Palmer, Mass. has already had a busier semester than most. A team of 11 Army ROTC students from Norwich will participate in the […]