Fifty years ago, a stamp cost four cents, a gallon of milk was 49 cents, a gallon of gas 31 cents, and you could buy a house for around $17,000. Not to mention, college tuition cost between $300 and $3,300 a year, according to reducemycollegecosts.com.
With interim vice president of academic affairs’s (VPAA) two-year contract coming to a close, four candidates are in the running for the position.
They are: Dr. Arthur Goldstein, Dr. Sheying Chen, Dr. William W. Durgin and Dr. Guiyou Huang
President Richard Schneider, a selection committee and an outside consulting firm worked on the selections.
“Untimely it’s the president choice but in higher education we use a system of search committees; we have a system of shared governance,” said Schneider.
The committee is made up of faculty and staff, selected based on their status in their department.
“We worked for probably about a month putting together a job description and began working with a search firm to help us identify quality candidates,” said Stewart Robertson, chair of the selection committee and professor of Spanish.
“We received a number of responses from a number of possible candidates and narrowed the selection down to eight semi finalists.”
Frank Vanachek has been serving as the interim vice president since the Wolf Yiegh left on short notice for a job at another university.
The Selection Committee is looking for a candidate who works well with students, has a degree in higher education and is a right fit for Norwich, according to Schneider.
“My ideal candidate would be an incredibly wonderful and powerful teacher; somebody that is a well-seasoned and powerful administrator; not a researcher, more of a scholar,” Schneider said.
All candidates have visited or will be visiting campus. Goldstein, Huang and Chen were here this week; Durgin will be on campus May 10 and 11.
“Indoc basically separates the men from the boys.” said Richard Williams, a 20-year-old studies of war and peace major from Brigdewater, Mass., as he described just the beginning of the very long and grueling process of becoming a Norwich Ranger.
For the members of the Norwich University Marine Corps ROTC program, training for Officer Candidate School can be a vigorous task during junior year. At the start of every spring semester, the contracted or scholarship midshipmen begin training that is specifically designed for those attending OCS in Quantico, Va.
The Norwich student activities office has been known in the past for bringing bands and entertainers such as Reel Big Fish, Bo Burnham and Dropkick Murphy’s to campus. This entertainment is financed from an account known as student activities; every year Norwich bills its students a fee for entertainment such as movies and other campus entertainment including karaoke in the mill on Friday nights.
As one group moves out, another group plans to move in to Norwich. Just as students pack their bags to head home for the start of summer, construction crews will be lined up to begin work on a tight deadline before the students return again in the fall.
“I am excited to be the colonel,” said the Cadet Colonel designee for the 2010-2011 school year, Joshua Tulloch. The selection for cadet colonel is a long process involving interviews with Brigadier General Michael Kelley, the commandant of cadets, and President Richard Schneider, president of the university, according to some of the applicants for the upcoming school year.
Richard Macris
Always with a positive attitude and a smile on her face, Rosemary Sprague has been working at Sodexo as an employee for eight years. Over this time she has enjoyed swiping cards and making students smile every day. But Rosemary was recently diagnosed with cancer and students ran a fundraiser to raise money for her treatment.
Alicia Hood
While the majority of Norwich students packed their bags to head home for the weeklong spring break, three Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) students and one NROTC staff member packed their bags and headed to the Burlington airport with work on their minds.
“I really thought this year was an amazing year for it. I saw a lot of heart, I saw a lot of people dig deep and I saw a lot of character being built out there,” said Capt. Todd Tedeschi as he recalls the extreme effort put forth by all of this year’s Recon Challenge competitors.
An injured man was somewhere in the conference ballroom and he “was trapped with unknown injuries,” said Jonathan Lewis. The very narrow space was hard for the four-man team to navigate, but that was the way the course was designed, according to the 25-year-old junior.
“When people find out I’ve been to Iraq,” said Dan Silver, a veteran interviewed in “The War at Home,” “they ask ‘How are you doing,’ like (I’m) an alien or something.” “I’m from New Hampshire, I’m fine,” Silver said.
In the 24 years Dave Magida has worked as Norwich’s chief administration officer, the snowstorm Northfield was hit with at the end of February was one of the worst he has seen. “It was brutal,” Magida said. “It was definitely one of the more difficult storms we’ve had.
Over the past few years, people have been growing more aware of the effects of global warming and the many issues involving the environment. Just last year, a group of Norwich architecture students came together and formed a group to spread the ideas of being environmentally conscious.
As Tom Roberge sees it, the Special Olympics are “a great opportunity for the kids to get out and play.” Roberge, a physical education professor and coordinator of the Special Olympics at Norwich University, took over the event four years ago.
Video games can be a student’s favorite pastime and they can help students deal with the stress of day-to-day life. But video games can also become a problem for students if they become a distraction to school and getting work done. Video games are one of the many distractions that students deal with at Norwich University.
Crazy parties, amazing beaches or just relaxing at home: These are just a few options that Norwich students have to do during spring break. For Erica Schueler, a 19-year-old sophomore communication major from Norfolk, Va., the choice wasn’t too hard to make.
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