Patchwork at the Polls

	Kroepsch-Maurice winner Alec Ewald, expert in voting rights and constitutional law, on teaching: “I talk about looking for echoes, connections to historical material that in some stimulating way enrich your experience of the present." Class work, Ewald insists, “should improve our ability to think and feel and care about the questions that are most interesting and mysterious in our lives.” (Photo: Sally McCay)

Voting — as we envision it — is a national, Constitution-based right. But that's not how it's exercised. In his forthcoming book, The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage, Alec Ewald, assistant professor of political science and passionate proponent of participatory democracy, writes, “…in some ways the Constitution means what your county elections board says it does.”

UVM Remains Among Top Schools for Green Practices

'Campus Grandma' Passes Away

Panel Discussion on Credit Crisis Slated for Oct. 9

Cornell Statistician to Deliver Burack Lecture

Director of Vassar Special Collections to Discuss Luther's Commentary on Galatians

UVM to Co-Sponsor Global Citizenship in Higher Education Conference

Political Science Professor Speaks on Vermont's Role in Politics

Doctor, Mother, Prime Minister: Brundtland of Norway to Give Aiken Lecture

Pulitzer Prize Winner to Discuss Market Meltdown

Homecoming and Family Weekend Is Oct. 2-5

Lessons in Leadership

Audio Slideshow: Louis McAllister Collection

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UVM to Host Forum on Constitutional Rights

Tony Winner, Marsh Professor to Talk Theater

Douglas, Fogel Sign Vermont Climate Collaborative Charter

viewPOINT: Economic Turmoil

Lecture to Explore Art and Survival

INTERview: Gro Harlem Brundtland In 1981, at age forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician and mother of four, took on a new job: prime minister of Norway. She was the youngest person and the first woman to ever hold that post. She will deliver the 2008 Aiken Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 15. at 6 p.m. in Ira Allen Chapel. the view spoke with Brundtland on Oct. 6 to find out more about her perspective on climate change and global politics in a post-Bush world.

Rural Studies: 30 Years Later The number of expressions of gratitude toward Fred Schmidt at the 30th Anniversary Symposium for the Center for Rural Studies were as plentiful as the issues facing rural Vermonters that dominated the event. One of those issues, a lack of broadband connectivity in rural areas, highlighted the changes facing small town America and the evolving issues the center has dealt with since Schmidt founded it in September of 1978.