<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/honors_seminar_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />For three days in mid-August, 20 faculty members interrupted the doldrums of late summer to mull over the complexity of the global — and local — food system from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The collective consideration came courtesy of the ¶¶Òõ̽̽ Honors College, which has sponsored five such faculty seminars in the past.
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</OBJECT>As 2,620 new students and families rolled onto campus August 28 — wagons and mini-vans stuffed with clothes and microwaves, books and snowboards — they found some 600 ¶¶Òõ̽̽ students, staff and faculty waiting to greet them. <span id="caption">QuickTime Player is required to view this video. <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/">Download QuickTime here.</a> <a href="/~uvmpr/videos/move_in.mp4">View a smaller, faster loading version of the video.</a></span>
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/kidder_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />The keening of bagpipes and steady drums led campus leadership and distinguished guests — dressed in academic robes, stoles, sashes, hoods and other regalia — to the platform. The lights dimmed, and from Patrick Gym's stands, hundreds of students, wearing t-shirts, shorts, flip-flops, waved their illuminated cell phones lighter-style in the air.
