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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/debellis_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />With the recent death of renowned historian, activist and author Howard Zinn, 87, it seemed a fitting moment for <em>¶¶Òõ̽̽ Today</em> to check in with Deborah Ellis, assistant professor of film and television studies, and maker of the documentary on Zinn, <em>You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train</em>.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/bud_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Sitting on a shelf in the office of H.W. "Bud" Meyers, director of the recently opened James M. Jeffords Center, are two large, three-ringed notebooks filled with research projects titled "Policy Research and Evaluation in Human Services and Education: Vols. 1 and 2."

The setting was the same -- the cavernous Southwick Ballroom on Redstone campus -- but it was no ordinary rehearsal of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Jazz Ensemble, the university's first-string student big band.