Every semester, when Norwich holds a blood drive, students show up to donate. Donating blood helps many people in need and it “makes me feel good knowing that I am helping another person,” said Stephanie Dorain, 22, a senior history and education major from Wilder, Vt. Students offer many reasons […]

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 […]

In a recent article of the Guidon about texting in class being an issue, teachers complained that students do not pay attention. That is not the problem for one professor who has encouraged his students to text for a different reason according to a graduate school professor. “I will start […]

The best part about skiing during the winter is going down black diamond trails, according to a freshman student at Norwich University. “My favorite part is the adrenaline rush of a black diamond,” said Quinn Duffy, 17, a civil engineering major from Colchester, Conn. Other students agree that they […]

It is 5 a.m. on a brisk cold fall morning. There are no sounds but the wind and rustling of the leaves in the trees. That is until a deer comes walking through the woods and is stunned by a shot.    “I’ll usually go out around 5:15a.m. so I […]

It’s been eight years since the Sept.11 attacks on the World Trade Center, but for one student the attacks are still as real as they were the day it happened, when he was a mile and a half away from them. Matt McClellan was in seventh grade when the attacks […]

Norwich men’s soccer were knocked out from the GNAC tournament by St. Joes College. “The team found out that winning isn’t easy, it comes from hard work and dedication to your team,” said a team member.   This year was a rebuilding year for Norwich, having brought in 13 freshmen […]

The Norwich men’s cross country team came up a little short in its quest for a conference championship. The team ended in second place following the conference championship meet in late October at Rivier College, trailing conference foe Johnson and Wales by 67 points. Norwich had one runner finish in […]

This year Norwich University hired a new transition and academic success coach to fill a position that had been empty for three years. Stephen Looke, the new coach,  is no stranger to the Norwich community. His position as associate athletic director was eliminated in January of 2009, he said. “Prior […]

Prof. Johnny Stones is the longest serving member of the Norwich University psychology department; when the semester ends in December he will have been a member of the university for 31 years. “I graduated from Windham College in southern Vermont and than I did all of my graduate work and […]