Vermont Quarterly
RETHINKING RECHARGING
It’s not like Mike Carpanzano ’03 doesn’t have enough to do. He’s the father of a three-year-old son; owns a small residential construction business, Sherman Building Designs, in Sherman, Connecticut; and is finishing up an MBA at Western Connecticut State. But as Carpanzano and I spoke on the phone recently as he drove to a [...]
Posted on 7 May 2013 | 11:47 am
A BRIEF WONDROUS TALK BY JUNOT DIAZ
Gentle and profane, provocative and hilarious, Junot Diaz was his Pulitzer-winning, MacArthur Genius self during a Monday afternoon reading/talk on campus. The author’s fans packed the Davis Center’s Livak Ballroom for the English Department’s Writer’s Workshop Series event; and Diaz packed his hour-long presentation with a short reading and a generous round of questions and [...]
Posted on 23 April 2013 | 9:10 am
FOUND LITERATURE
I find Jacques Paul Marton, Davis Center custodian, on his lunch break in the wide-open space of the building’s atrium. It’s a bustling campus crossroad lined with tables offering bake sales and plant sales; music plays as salsa dance club members show off their moves to recruit new students from the ranks walking past. Though [...]
Posted on 17 April 2013 | 9:31 am
I DECLARED
Somewhere between “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and “what do you do for a living?” many of us come to grips with that core question of college life: “What’s you major?” While some have the good fortune to be zeroed in on a major and what lies beyond from the [...]
Posted on 26 March 2013 | 10:38 am