After finishing 8-3 and suffering a heartbreaking lost in overtime to Framingham State, 27-21, last November, the Norwich football team is looking to reclaim the ECFC (Eastern Colligate Football Conference) Title, which it won two years ago. After coming close to repeating as conference champions, the team is hungry to […]
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Norwich becomes more exclusive
It’s getting harder to become a Norwich student. Last year, Norwich accepted just 57 percent of students who applied, compared to 67 percent just a year ago. This year’s freshmen class is smaller than in past years. The number of students who enrolled in the corps of cadets is 482 […]
There’s an app for that
With the proliferation of applications on cell phones, it is no surprise that applications, also called apps, have become widely used by Norwich students, both on and off campus on a daily basis, according to students. Liz Spears, 21, a senior English major from San Francisco, Calif., said her favorite […]
Students call for more dining options
Freshman year, Morgan Fowler walked into the mess hall on campus after a strenuous day of classes expecting to swipe her meal card and sit down for an enjoyable pasta dinner. After waiting behind a long line of other starving students, she went to sit down only to find there […]
Women’s soccer works now to repeat its success
After a long day, Katie Sanders, a junior architecture major, heads down to Plumley Armory to work out. “We are working really hard in order to achieve our goals,” said Sanders, 20, from Murrieta Calif. “We know we have to in order to replace all the seniors we are losing.” […]
Renat Fatkulin competes in fifth Levy Challenge
The weight pulled down on his ruck sack, and he could feel each and every pound pull down on his already battered spine. He had felt the same pain for the past seven miles. “I visualized the end, and I had it in sight,” said Renat Fatkulin, a Norwich graduate […]
What do you want to be when you grow up?
As a kid, Dana Cochrane, now 20, dreamed of being a veterinarian. Many years later, and two years into her college education, she has decided to follow a different career path. Now Cochrane dreams of being an intelligence analyst. “When I was little I really loved animals, and then I […]
Men’s soccer prepares in spring for next season
For the Norwich men’s soccer team, spring means “hard-work and determination” so it can achieve its ultimate goal – winning the Greater Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) championship next fall, according to Coach Kyle Dezotell. “So far we have tried to re-focus the team, a lot of programs try to use […]
Bathroom trespassing
Sometimes when you’ve got to go you really have got to go. “It was an emergency” said Jonathan Wright, a 20-year-old Norwich sophomore. “The men’s bathroom was closed. So I had a friend stand outside the door to keep women out so he could use it.” Sometimes using the opposite […]
Students find meeting college payments can be tough
The economy is tight. That is such a common phrase nowadays. However, the phrase does little to demonstrate the actual difficulties that people must endure, especially when loans and bills begin to pile up. Kristine Brammer, a 19-year-old sophomore at Norwich, explained, “This school is really expensive to start out […]