Two Middlebury College seniors, Lauren Throop, 21, and Jordan Sax, 22, drove from Vermont to Iowa to volunteer for Howard Dean the final weekend before the Iowa caucuses. They were interviewed for a Jan. 17 Baltimore Sun article, "'Deaniacs': Have dream, will travel." The text of the article is on the paper's Web site at http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.deaniacs17jan17,0,1621454.story?coll=bal-news-nation.
The NCAA recently voted down the proposed reform that would have barred athletic scholarships for Division I teams at Division III schools. Prior to the vote, President John McCardell, who is also president of the NCAA Division III Presidents Council, which proposed this reform and others, was the subject of a Jan. 12 article in the Baltimore Sun, "Division III vote puts McCardell on spot: Frederick native chairs Presidents Council with vision JHU doesn't share." The text of the article, which begins, "Middlebury College president John M. McCardell Jr. would seem an unlikely danger to one of Baltimore's sporting traditions," is on the paper's Web site at http://www.sunspot.net/sports/college/bal-sp.hopkins12jan12,0,1808794.story?coll=bal-sports-more.