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Ahmed Museh, 22, isn’t sure what to do when he graduates from Winooski High School next month. He’s thinking college, then the Air Force. It’s been four years since Museh came to the United States from Kenya, where he spent his adolescence in a refugee camp. He hasn’t applied to college yet, and he doesn’t have the money.... Read more

Vermont's college seniors are preparing to leave college and enter "the real world." UVM senior Louis "Lou" Armistead visits a student BBQ on North Beach and asks the about-to-be grads what comes next — and what words of wisdom they have for younger students.

Their advice? Live it up, give yourself a cool nickname, major in something you can use when you graduate and go to class freshman and sophomore year.

In March, a faculty bandleader decided to pull the Middlebury Union High School jazz band from a competition at the Flynn Center for Performing Arts over suspicions that musicians were getting stoned before school-sanctioned jams.

You should write about this in our school paper, one band member suggested to Liam Kelley-St. Clair, a reporter for the MUHS’s Tigers’ Print.... Read more

For the Frost 28, it will be a case of poetic justice. For the scholar, it’s a chance to fill a gap in the educations of the youths who sacked Robert Frost’s summer home.

“My instinct was that if the schools had taught these people about Frost,” Jay Parini, a professor at Middlebury College, said, “this wouldn’t have happened.”... Read more

It’s been a long time since I believed in faeries. However, as I sat down in a packed theater for the St. Michael’s Drama Club production of Peter Pan, I was determined to let my faith be born again.

Held on the main stage of the McCarthy Arts Center, the student-produced play featured an impressive array of colorful costumes, swashbuckling scenes and, of course, flying.... Read more

Champlain College has spent a lot of time lately trying to sell its neighbors and the Burlington City Council on a plan to buy property near the heart of downtown, tear down a building, and construct new apartments for 200 students.... Read more

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Middlebury College freshman Nicholas Garza has been missing without a trace since February 5th.

His family and friends organized a volunteer search to look for leads last Saturday.

Music: Carrigan, "Sunshine Through the Waves," Young Men Never Die

Location: Middlebury, Vermont... Read more

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It costs about 50 grand to spend a year as a student at Middlebury College. Jon Taylor asks Midd kids if they're getting their money's worth.

Last Thursday, as Pope Benedict XVI addressed a few hundred Catholic educators in Washington, D.C., a Marine Corps recruiter in full dress uniform set up shop outside the St. Michael’s College cafeteria.

For a couple of hours the recruiter, an officer named Will Morgan, shook hands and took down the names of a few interested students, then packed up his pamphlets and headed for the door. “Not bad,” he said on his way out.... Read more

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After three years as the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI is finally gracing the United States with his holy presence, making stops in Washington, D.C., and New York during a six-day-tour in the Pope-mobile. We can all agree that the pope's bulletproof ride is sweet, but the papal visit has stirred up controversy, too. Seven Days decided to seek some balance in the media firestorm.... Read more