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The Canadian company that makes 乐播传媒’ biofuel seeks more customers before it can build a Maine plant 鈥� Portland Press Herald

Portland Press Herald energy reporter Tux Turkel of why a company that makes heating oil from wood waste is considering expansion into Maine.

乐播传媒 just started burning a proprietary biofuel, manufactured by Canada-based Ensyn Corp., in one of its three campus boilers, cutting college-wide carbon emissions by 83 percent.

Ensyn makes the fuel in Quebec but intends to build new plants, and Maine would be “an ideal place to locate a facility,鈥� Lee Torrens, president of the subsidiary Ensyn Fuels Inc., told the Press Herald.

Ensyn would expand only if it can lock in contracts with more Maine companies and institutions, according to the paper. Currently, 乐播传媒 is the only Maine business burning Ensyn’s Renewable Fuel Oil. In fact, 乐播传媒 is the only college in the country burning RFO.

At 乐播传媒, using Ensyn’s Renewable Fuel Oil is a case of so far, so good, said energy manager John Rasmussen. 鈥淭hey鈥檝e been burning this stuff for 25 years, so there shouldn鈥檛 be many surprises,鈥� he told the paper.

Less U.S. spending on foreign aid isn’t good for U.S. defense 鈥� The Washington Post

Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs Matt Auer’s argues that the Trump administration’s plan to cut foreign-aid spending “is actually less-than-ideal news for the Defense聽Department.”

Auer is a widely recognized international scholar and expert in environmental policy, energy policy, sustainable development, and foreign aid.

“Foreign aid is instrumental to national security. Spent wisely, it fosters economic opportunity and social stability,” Auer says.

‘I have never written anything from beginning to end’ 鈥� The Guardian

For the Guardian‘s Books section, novelist Elizabeth Strout about how she creates her Pulitzer Prize鈥�winning fiction.

For one thing, she says, 鈥淚 have never written anything from beginning to end…. I just collect different scenes, and the ones that aren鈥檛 any good to me get slipped onto the floor and eventually into the wastebasket. (There are many of those.)鈥�

While personal, the essay has tips for writers; one is a variation on the rule of “writing what you know”: Write the feelings that you know, Strout says.

“I have learned over the years to take anything that is most pressing to me 鈥� it may be as mundane as a concern about upcoming dental work, or as serious as worrying about the safety of my child 鈥� and to transpose that emotion into a character. This will give the scene life, as opposed to having it wooden.”

Twins have identical impact on Bobcats 鈥� Lewiston Sun Journal

Marcus Delpeche ’17 tells Lewiston Sun Journal writer Randy Whitehouse that he laughed when his high school guidance counselor in Delaware suggested he look at a college in Maine.

He and his identical twin brother, Malcolm Delpeche ’17, are from Wilmington, and Malcolm agrees with his twin. “If someone ever told me I was going to be in Maine of all places, I would have told them, ‘You’re crazy.'”

 

That was then. As the Sun Journal feature story makes clear, the basketball-playing brothers and psychology majors consider 乐播传媒 to be a sane and savvy choice.

For evidence, they point to support from head coach Jon Furbush ’05, on and off the court, who “lets us know we’re not just here to play basketball. We’re here to establish a bond that’s going to go on beyond the season and beyond 乐播传媒 College,” said Malcolm.

The Bobcats went 15-10 this year, bowing out in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC tournament. Marcus was a 6-foot-7 forward; Malcolm, a 6-8 center. They were one-two in scoring, with 15.1 and 13.2 points per game respectively.

Betsy DeVos as education secretary is bad news for rural schools 鈥� Charlestown (W.Va.) Gazette-Mail

In a Feb. 5 op-in the Charlestown (W.Va.) Gazette-Mail, Assistant Professor of Education Mara Tieken as secretary of education.

Noting that DeVos is a “strong proponent of school choice” and of “expanding charter schools and reducing their oversight,” Tieken, who is an expert in rural education, argues that “choice only works when you have options, and many rural communities don鈥檛.”

Most rural communities, “with their small populations and vast geographies…cannot sustain a variety of brick-and-mortar options, public or private.”

The U.S. Senate confirmed DeVos on Feb. 7.

Legal in Maine, pot is still illegal on Maine college campuses, including 乐播传媒’ 鈥� Portland Press Herald

Maine voters decided in November to make marijuana use legal, but that doesn’t change the rules on college campuses, the Portland Press Herald reported, quoting Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs Josh McIntosh.

鈥淭he federal law and the state law are in conflict with one another and our perspective is 鈥� like many of our fellow institutions of higher education聽鈥� that we will continue to follow federal law,鈥� McIntosh told the paper.

鈥淥ur approach to it and our policies toward it remain unchanged and will likely remain unchanged until that conflict between the state and federal governments gets worked out.鈥�

Massachusetts clergyman elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina 鈥� The Boston Globe

Samuel Rodman, the newly elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was for his “exceptional combination of gifts,” reported The Boston Globe.

The Rt. Rev. Alan Gates, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, said in a statement that Rodman, currently a special projects officer for the Diocese of Massachusetts, has a “creative imagination, engaging personal interaction, keen organizing skills and the heart of a pastor. He will be a strong and wise shepherd.鈥�

Ordained in 1988, Rodman majored in English at 乐播传媒 and earned a master’s degree from Virginia Theological Seminary. He previously spent 16 years as the rector of St. Michael鈥檚 in Milton, Mass.

A longtime advocate for Lewiston-Auburn now heads its chamber of commerce 鈥� Portland Press Herald

Beckie Swanson Conrad ’82, currently vice president for institutional advancement at Maine College of Art in Portland, is the new president and CEO of the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

鈥淲e were looking for specific attributes, and one of the biggest is someone who is a relationship builder and collaborator,鈥� said Jen Hogan, president of Community Credit Union in Lewiston and the chair-elect of the board for the L-A chamber. “That鈥檚 who Beckie is 鈥� it鈥檚 her nature.”

Conrad worked at 乐播传媒 for 21 years, including from 1999 to 2003 as executive director of LA Excels, the college鈥檚 nonprofit community development partnership in Lewiston-Auburn.