乐播传媒 Football
How to tackle concussions? High schools get helmets with sensors 鈥� Portland Press Herald
Mike Lowe of the Portland Press Herald includes 乐播传媒 in a story about Maine schools outfitting football players with high-tech helmets that use sensors to record the location and intensity of blows to the head so coaches can monitor for concussions and teach players to tackle more safely.
Most 乐播传媒 players use the new SpeedFlex Insite helmets. 鈥淚t鈥檚 helping us look at what we鈥檙e doing, how can we coach our players better,鈥� said Nick Cooke, assistant athletic director of athletics for athletic performance.
Also in on the action is Howard Vandersea ’63, founder and president of the Maine chapter of the National Football Foundation, whose $2,000 grant helped Saco’s Thornton Academy buy new helmets.
Vandersea said it’s what the organization is looking for when it provides grants. 鈥淚f it鈥檚 going to help young kids and make (football) safer,鈥� he said, 鈥渢hat鈥檚 what we鈥檙e going to do.鈥�
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- 鈥�,鈥� Portland Press Herald, Oct. 20, 2019
Elizabeth Strout 鈥�77
Elizabeth Strout鈥檚 view from the top 鈥� WNYC
Accompanied by WNYC鈥檚 New York Radio Hour reporter KalaLea, Elizabeth Strout 鈥�77 returned to campus over the summer and climbed Mount David for the first time since senior year.
Strout grew up in small-town Maine and New Hampshire, and she was fascinated by the view of Lewiston that Mount David offered. 鈥淚 just loved to see that array of buildings that meant there were people down there,鈥� she told Lea. 鈥淚t was my first city.鈥�
Her experiences at 乐播传媒 and in Lewiston 鈥渆normously informed,鈥� her work, she said. Reading Sherwood Anderson鈥檚 Winesburg, Ohio, in Jim Hepburn鈥檚 course taught her how to write with a sense of place, while plays read in Martin Andrucki鈥檚 theater courses showed her dialogue.
鈥淚 learned a lot about dialogue reading those plays 鈥� Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, just reading and reading plays,鈥� she said.
鈥淏ut the experiences I had in town also informed my work,鈥� she added. 鈥淲hen I was working as a waitress, I was working with people from Lewiston. They weren鈥檛 from 乐播传媒. I waitressed at the first disco. That was amazing.鈥�
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- 鈥�,鈥� WNYC, Oct. 4, 2019
Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920
The late Rep. Elijah Cumming’s favorite poem linked to Benjamin Mays 鈥� multiple outlets
Following the聽 Oct. 17 death of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a few news outlets recalled Cummings鈥� first speech on the floor of the House, in 1996, when he recited a favorite poem that has long been associated with Benjamin Mays, 乐播传媒 Class of 1920.
Benjamin Mays ’20, photographed in 1980 when he returned to 乐播传媒 for his 60th Reunion. (Jim Daniels)
Known as “God’s Minute,” the anonymous poem has a carpe diem theme:
I only have a moment
Only 60 seconds in it
Forced upon me
Can鈥檛 refuse it
Didn鈥檛 seek it
Didn鈥檛 choose it
But it鈥檚 up to me to use it
I must suffer if I lose it
Give account if I abuse it
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- 鈥�,鈥� Inc., Oct. 18, 2019聽
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Deshun Peoples 鈥�17
Student lands place at top art college thanks to nine months training in China 鈥� Encounters in China
Deshun Peoples 鈥�17 was featured on the YouTube channel China Icons in a film exploring the relationship between Peoples and Jiang Xingda, a ceramicist in Jingdezhen, the 鈥渃apital of Chinese porcelain,” during the year that Peoples spent in China on a Fulbright U.S. Student award.
Peoples and Jiang met in 2016, when Peoples, himself an accomplished ceramicist on a study-abroad program in Jingdezhen. When Peoples returned to the city the next year for his Fulbright year, Jiang agreed to teach him what he knew about color and patterns in pottery, in exchange for English lessons.
鈥淚 learned a lot about culture,鈥� Peoples said of his time with Jiang. 鈥淚 learned a lot about friendship and about engagement with people. I can鈥檛 imagine my experience in Jingdezhen without him.鈥�
Tessica Glancey Crampton 鈥�12 and Robert Crampton 鈥�13
Philadelphia weddings: Tessica Glancey and Robert Crampton 鈥� The Philadelphia Inquirer
Kellie Patrick Gates of The Philadelphia Inquirer told the 乐播传媒 backstory of Tessica Glancey Crampton 鈥�12 and Robert Crampton 鈥�13, who got married on Aug. 30 in Philadelphia.
The two met in a seminar on American political development and went on their first date at the Blue Goose, a popular bar among students. 鈥淲alking home, I realized I was completely smitten already,鈥� Tess said.
Tess Glancey ’12 and Rob Crampton ’13 pose with 乐播传媒 friends at their wedding reception on Aug. 30, 2019 in Philadelphia.
During the wedding festivities, Tess, a media relations manager at Fox News, and Rob, who is earning an MBA from Dartmouth, took time to get a picture with the traditional 乐播传媒 banner.
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- 鈥�,鈥� The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 10, 2019聽
Adriana Salerno
Episode 46: 鈥淎driana Salerno鈥� 鈥� My Favorite Theorem
Math podcast My Favorite Theorem featured Associate Professor of Mathematics Adriana Salerno, who is a big fan of Cantor鈥檚 diagonal argument, which states that 鈥渞eal numbers do not have the same cardinality as the natural numbers.鈥�
The theorem has to do with counting the number of numbers. There are infinitely many integers, such as one, two, three, and so on. There are also infinitely many rational numbers, like one-half and three-eighths 鈥� and mathematicians say those types of numbers reach the same infinity (trust us on this one).
Associate Professor of Mathematics Adriana Salerno. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
But according to Cantor鈥檚 argument, there are infinitely many real numbers, like pi and the square root of four, but the infinity that those numbers reach is a different infinity than the infinity of the infinitely many rational numbers and integers.
鈥淭his theorem shows without a doubt 鈥� although some students still doubt me 鈥� that there are different sizes of infinity,鈥� Salerno said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a very lovely succession of ideas.鈥�
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- My Favorite Theorem, Sept. 11, 2019聽
Michael Morgan 鈥�22
Michael Morgan continues to build on his creative legacy 鈥� The Gleaner
Keisha Hill of Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner profiled Michael Morgan 鈥�22. A double major in politics and rhetoric from Kingston, Morgan has made waves as an artist and climate change activist.
Interested in international relations with an eye toward communications and outreach, Morgan completed a summer 2019 internship at the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network鈥揧outh Initiative.
He returned to the UN on Sept. 21 to represent Jamaica at the United Nations Youth Climate Summit, attending meetings with world leaders and doing interviews with international media.
Michael Morgan poses on the Historic Quad before attending the United Nations Youth Climate Summit in September 2019. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
On the artistic side, Morgan is a graphic designer for student clubs and the lead painter on a mural at the Center for Global Education. At 乐播传媒, 鈥淚 got the chance to expand my thinking on topics such as politics, the arts, and the environment,鈥� Morgan said.
Compared with his earlier schooling, 鈥渢here was less rigidity surrounding grades and competitiveness and more time given to building a rounded individual keen on exploring their passion for a greater purpose.鈥�
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- 鈥�,鈥� The Gleaner, Sept. 20, 2019聽
Carine Warsawski 鈥�07
Jewish summer camp with campfires, crafts, and no lights out 鈥� The New York Times
For The New York Times, Rachel Levin wrote about her weekend attending a summer camp for Jewish adults in California鈥檚 Simi Valley. Trybal Gatherings, founded by Carine Warsawski 鈥�07, organizes the popular retreats in three locations.
Levin described a weekend of archery, horseback riding, kosher mess halls, an 鈥淎be Weissman workout,鈥� and challah making. The experience is rooted in 鈥渢he shared nostalgia of a Jewish-American rite of passage,鈥� Levin wrote.
鈥淭here is something easy and assuring about spending a summer weekend like I used to: with my people,鈥� she added.
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- 鈥�,鈥� The New York Times, Sept. 22, 2019聽
Anita Charles
Relationship-based practices for today鈥檚 students 鈥� Heinemann Publishing
On the blog of educational publisher Heinemann, Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Secondary Teacher Education Anita Charles wrote about how teachers can build relationships with students in an increasingly diverse and technologically connected world.
Anita Charles teaches a course on basic concepts in special education in March 2018. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
Instead of expecting students to adhere to 鈥渨hite, middle-class, able-bodied, English-speaking, cisgender鈥� norms, Charles encouraged teachers to learn about the cultural backgrounds of each student and advocated for a variety of practices, including culturally responsive and trauma-informed teaching and restorative justice.
Overall, Charles argued that teachers should not think of students who differ from a particular norm as less-than. 鈥淎 strength-based lens allows us to see every child as valuable to the classroom as a whole,鈥� she wrote.
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- 鈥�,鈥� Heinemann Publishing, Oct. 11, 2019
Hannah Morris 鈥�96
Art review: 鈥淲aiting to Happen: Hannah Morris” 鈥� Seven Days
Vermont alt-weekly Seven Days editor Pamela Polston reviewed 鈥淲aiting to Happen,鈥� a solo exhibition of gouache-and-collage works by Hannah Morris 鈥�96.
Morris鈥� works evoke 鈥渢he magical realism we remember from children鈥檚 books,鈥� Polston wrote, as well as elements of the far-flung locales where Morris has lived. She 鈥渁sks viewers to accept that the ground we walk on can be salmon-pink; that figures can appear in both color and black-and-white in the same scene; that dimensionality doesn’t have to play by the rules,鈥� Polston added.
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- 鈥�,鈥� Seven Days, Sept. 25, 2019聽
Justine Wiesinger
New climate change comedy uses laughs to tackle tough questions 鈥� WUNC
Frank Stasio of North Carolina public radio station WUNC spoke with Assistant Professor of Japanese Justine Wiesinger about her new play, Waters Rise, which premiered this month at the Women鈥檚 Theater Festival in Durham, N.C.
The play is set in a world where there is massive flooding, with government inaction and misinformation and little insight into the future. It鈥檚 a comedy.
Assistant Professor of Japanese Justine Wiesinger (Phyllis Graber Jensen/乐播传媒 College)
Wiesinger, who spent time in Tokyo just after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, focuses her research on the theater and film that emerged from the disasters.
The play explores individual people鈥檚 complicity in climate change. 鈥淚t鈥檚 painful to ask ourselves in different ways how we are contributing, what we are doing to change the situation, and if our strategies are at all effective,鈥� Wiesinger told Stasio.
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- 鈥�,鈥� WUNC, Oct. 9, 2019聽
Kelli Armstrong 鈥�86
Dr. Kelli Armstrong inaugurated as president of Salve Regina University 鈥� Rhode Island Catholic
Brian Fraga of Rhode Island Catholic covered the inauguration in September of Salve Regina University鈥檚 new president, Kelli Armstrong 鈥�86, who brings to the university a long career in higher education, including as vice president for planning and assessment at Boston College.
Armstrong has been serving as president since July, but the university officially marked her inauguration with a Mass, a ceremony, a barbecue, and an inaugural ball.
鈥淚鈥檓 humbled and honored to serve at such an exceptional institution,鈥� Armstrong said. 鈥淲hat sets Salve apart from other universities is that in the great tradition of a mercy education, we help our students become their best selves and make a difference in the world.鈥�
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- 鈥�鈥� 鈥� Rhode Island Catholic, Sept. 26, 2019聽
