It's All Downhill From Here

By DON TROOP

Every February all the midyear graduates of Middlebury College — known as Febs — don caps, gowns, and skis and snake down a slope of the college's own Snow Bowl resort. Even nonskiers join the rollicking procession, with ski-school instructors helping them.

This year W. Scott Buckley broke with "ski-down" tradition...