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<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/jonstewart_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />There was no doubt that most of the capacity crowd at Jon Stewart's Patrick Gym performance follow the comedian's "fake news" program, "The Daily Show." Anyone who came to the show skeptical about Stewart's ability to deliver his trademark sardonic wit in the format of a live, stand-up performance was quickly made a believer. <span id="caption">Comedian Jon Stewart held court at Patrick Gym on March 28, delivering live stand-up for nearly two hours on topics both local and national. (Photo: Rajan Chawla)</span>

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/disappeared_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Horacio Pietragalla struggled. As a young man he was coming to terms with a radically redefined identity. He had discovered that the couple that had raised him as their child were not, in fact, his parents.

<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/ukegbu_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />Growing up, Maxwell Ukegbu didn't need research data to tell him whether his family and friends were better off for moving from Nigeria to the United States. Ukegbu, who moved to the Bronx at age five, could rely on his personal experience to determine the answer to that question.