Brian Hurley '03 set out the day after graduation last May towalk to Cancun, Mexico, planning to arrive in Cancun for the MTV Spring Break in March. Locals have taken him in for meals and showers during his quirky stroll of more than 4,100 miles; one woman delivered breakfast to his tent. A history and religious studies major who already has a 2,200-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail under his belt, Hurley broke off in September in southern Indiana after 1,700 miles to take the GRE exam. "I'd like to go to graduate school," he said, "assuming [the walk] doesn't vault me into super-stardom. And maybe even if it does." After a brief hiatus, he resumed trekking his monthly 500 miles after Christmas.

Deaths: Dawn M. Rossignol '04, September 16, 2003, in Oakland, Maine, at 21.