<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/trainor_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />"Whoever sees me," the Buddha was reputed to say, "sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me." Kevin Trainor, professor and chair of religion, has his own way of seeing and understanding Buddhism, through the lens of a scholar, examining the tradition through time and place, relics and ritual.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/aguer_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />If anyone ever doubted the strength of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ alumni network, the experience of Ben Aguer might make him a believer. Aguer, who graduated from ¶¶Òõ̽̽ in 2007, embarked on a job search that had dozens of alumni and ¶¶Òõ̽̽ staff across Massachusetts and Vermont rooting for him.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/shabazz_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Surveillance cameras. Confined -- and defined -- spaces. Human interactions through Plexiglas barriers. Hard lives, hardened men. This is prison. But not necessarily one you enter by order of a court, argues Rashad Shabazz, assistant professor of geography. Some prisons you inhabit simply by being poor or working class and black.
<p>Zakir Hussain, the world's most acclaimed Indian percussionist, a cultural and musical superstar who has performed with musicians ranging from Ravi Shankar to Bela Fleck, will talk about his career and his wide-ranging musical ideas in a World Music Class on Tuesday at 10 a.m. in room 301 of the Southwick Building.</p>
