Vermont Cynic

Issue date: 2/21/06 Section: News

Media Credit: C. W. Soule

Three hundred and forty-eight Waterman Building, President Fogel's office, is a room where important decisions about the present and future of our university are made. It is a cozy space, with a crescent of armchairs around a fireplace and floor-to-ceiling bookshelves filled with a collection any English major would drool over. Dressed in a crisp navy blue suit, President Fogel was chipper and welcoming. Here's what he had to say:

The Vermont Cynic: What's your favorite place to eat on campus?

President Fogel: Well, uh, I like the Marche quite a bit. I've been over in the Cook Commons and I've eaten there a few times, it's okay. Waterman Manor is quite fine, you know I rarely have time to go out to lunch on campus, I usually eat at my desk. Sometimes they bring me stuff from Waterman Manor, sometimes I go down and get it from the Café.

VC: What do you do when you have free time on a Friday night?

PF: Usually my wife and I go out and have a bite to eat together, and then we might go to a movie. We love to go to the Roxy and see what's on down there. We've recently seen Syriana and Walk the Line and Munich. And when I really have free time, and even when I don't, I play guitar a lot. I played guitar for an hour this morning, I got up at 4, played guitar for an hour, worked out for 90 minutes, and came in for my first meeting. (laughs) I didn't do that when I was y'all's age. (laughs) I played guitar, but I didn't get up that early.

VC: What's your favorite film?

PF: Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's tribute to the great American gangster film.

VC: I heard you like The Beatles, what's your favorite song or album?

PF: I don't know, there are so many good songs and my taste in music is fairly eclectic. This morning, I was playing a lot of songs. The one that I've just been working out a nice guitar riff on is the song "I Will." But I was also playing Hank Williams, working through all 84 singles that Hank Williams recorded between 1947 and his death. I was doing some by The Band - "Up On Cripple Creek."

VC: In less than 50 words, how would you describe yourself to someone who has never met you?

PF: As a person who is very ebullient, optimistic, who aspires to be very creative and is fairly driven, but I hope not with a hard edge. Sometimes there aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do and I often multitask.

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