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<span id="preview"></span><span id="caption">Flash Player is required to view this video.<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/">Download Flash 10 here.</a></span><br /></span>The annual Activities Fest offers students one-stop shopping for the wide array of ways they can get involved, connect with campus and the community, and just have fun. The university has more than 150 student clubs and organizations and most set up a table outside the Davis Center on Sept. 15 to let their fellow ¶¶Òõ̽̽ students know what they're all about. </span> <script type='text/javascript' src='/~uvmpr/videos/swfobject.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var s1 = new SWFObject('/~uvmpr/videos/player.swf','player','420','280','9'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=/~uvmpr/videos/activities_fest.flv&skin=/~uvmpr/videos/stijl.swf&image=/~uvmpr/videos/activities_fest_preview.jpg'); s1.write('preview'); </script>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/vanzo_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />A recent survey of college recruiters by the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> showed that more than 50 percent of their new-graduate hires had started as interns at their companies. This news wasn't a surprise to Sean Riley. It's the main reason the partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston, where he's worked since graduating from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 1990, has been teaming with faculty in accounting to help students land internships at PwC.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/forehand_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />If everyone could grow up in the idyllic world that Rex Forehand did, well, Forehand might have a different career. It was more than the little Georgia town where he picked up his gentle accent. It was the family that surrounded him, the extra parental figures -- a grandmother and aunt who lived next door, an uncle in the house behind his and another across the street.