乐播传媒 in the News: March 4, 2016
Melissa Paione ’16
Melissa Paione ’16 of Auburn, Maine. (Josh Kuckens/乐播传媒 College)
Sun Journal reporter Tony Blasi ’16, writing that after graduation it will be “impossible” for her to “turn her back on the water where so many fond memories were made 鈥� and records broken.”
Blasi asks, “what鈥檚 next for the psychology major after four successful years as a 乐播传媒 swimmer?”
“I am going to be open to a master’s program,” Paione says. “Just going to stay in touch with the water. I think I would miss it too much if I quit cold turkey.鈥�
“乐播传媒 has been around since 1855, and you are the fastest ever to have swum here.”
She chose 乐播传媒, she says, for its academic program and for the chance to “work my way up” the swim ladder and “learn from the people who are faster….It ended up working out.鈥�
Paione owns or co-owns three 乐播传媒 swimming records.
鈥淚 tell the kids 乐播传媒 has been around since 1855, and you are the fastest ever to have swum here,鈥� her coach, Peter Casares, tells Blasi. 鈥淭hat puts things in perspective because you don鈥檛 realize what it is to be the best there ever was.鈥�
Emily Rand 鈥�06
Producer Emily Rand 鈥�06 and correspondent Jim Axelrod of CBS News won a prestigious George Polk Award for television reporting for their series
describes the series as being 鈥渁bout pharmacies that billed Medicare and private insurance companies for unproven creams and supplements.鈥�
The Campus Life Project
The New England construction and facilities trade publication High Profile put the college’s Campus Life Project on its March cover.
This rendering depicts 65 Campus Ave. in the foreground, seen from the corner of Campus and Central avenues. The second building, at 55 Campus Ave., is visible in the distance. (Ann Beha Architects)
The story, 鈥淎 New Gateway for a Historic Campus,鈥� written by Joshua Aisenberg of the project architect Ann Beha Architects, says that opening two new residences this fall goes far beyond adding beds.
The project will offer 鈥渁 new gateway,鈥� for the southeast part of the campus, 鈥渙ne which not only celebrates鈥� the arrival of new students in the fall but also 鈥渁nchors the residential life of the campus community.鈥�
Paul MacAvoy ’55
The late Paul MacAvoy 鈥�55 was the Williams Brother Professor Emeritus at Yale and former dean of the Yale School of Management.
The economics world took notice of the Feb. 24 death of Paul MacAvoy 鈥�55, the Williams Brother Professor Emeritus at Yale and former dean of the Yale School of Management.
From 1980 to 1991, as dean of the Simon School of Management at the University of Rochester, MacAvoy helped 鈥減ut the business school on the map,鈥�
The school was 鈥渟mall and virtually unknown in the business community,鈥� and MacAvoy built on the 鈥渇aculty鈥檚 dedication to market economics鈥� to cultivate 鈥渙ne of the best economics-trained faculty of any business school.鈥�
Byrne calls MacAvoy a 鈥渇eisty economist,鈥� a one-time adviser to George H.W. Bush who famously coined the term 鈥渧oodoo economics鈥� as a way for Bush to challenge Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics ideas during the presidential primary season of 1980.
At the time, MacAvoy had finished a 10-year stint at MIT鈥檚 Sloan School of Management and was co-chair of the President鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisers in the Ford administration.
MacAvoy received an honorary doctor of laws degree from 乐播传媒 in 1976 for a “brilliant career in the study of forces that mark the commonweal, and for his compelling example that the intellectual life must help render effective the councils of state.”
Decision-makers need to be more “concerned about the long-run effects of their activities.”
The Commencement speaker, MacAvoy said that the obstacle to U.S. economic growth was the short-sighted interests of the executive and legislative branches of government.
Changes were needed, he said, “to build in incentives for the decision-makers to be more concerned about the long-run effects of their activities.
“The Congress and the executive branches have to be pushed or pulled into considering extending the term of office, or delegating authority to independent organizations that have a longer time span.”
MacAvoy spoke of the federal regulations that stifle innovation, suggesting that the antidote was “the 鈥渦nleashing of your energies of individual enterprise.鈥�
“Your intellectual and professional freedom to innovate…provides the essential element in the system to beat the odds that go against us in the game of diminishing returns.”
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