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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Attendance policy gives students trouble
She couldn’t miss another class. During the first semester of her sophomore year, Sarah DeBouter, a 19-year-old sophomore from Middlebury, Vt., double majoring in English and education, struggled to keep up in her data structures class. She had missed the class twice; once delayed in an airport and another time […]
Upgrade the internet!
Reacting to complaints that the internet on campus is interminably slow, Norwich is installing an upgrade this month that will inject a speed boost. Norwich plans to increase its bandwidth to accommodate the increased traffic through the campus internet provider. Plans were set in motion last semester, according to the […]
Norwich refines its Wikileaks policy
Anyone can peak at the Wikileaks website and check out the classified U.S. government documents it’s posted online. But the U.S. military has issued prohibitions against accessing this website on government computers. Federal Executive Order 13526 prohibits military personnel from accessing or disclosing classified information without the authority to do […]
Selvester Wins!
A military science instructor from the Army ROTC detachment at Norwich University has won the US Army Cadet Command’s 1st Brigade Non Commissioned Officer of the Year (NCOY) competition for 2010, according to a high level source in the department. “Sergeant 1st Class Selvester competed at brigade level,” […]
Norwich develops trails on Paine Mountain
President Schneider already had a long and tiring Alumni Weekend Saturday. After attending the 2010 Alumni parade, a Norwich football victory, and more than ten different alumni parties throughout Vermont, he didn’t expect much more to surprise him during this typical Alumni weekend. Finally reaching the last alumni party […]
Work study students left without jobs
This year, many Norwich students came back to school to find that they had no work-study. With no income and a lack of students available for work-study, some students and university departments have been negatively affected. “I didn’t find out I lost work-study until I got back to Norwich,” […]