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Aiming for ‘different’: the story behind the 2021 ivy stone

Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:07 am

A 乐播传媒 tradition since 1879, class ivy stones tend to feature familiar elements year to year. Now it's time for something complete different.

From left, James Jones '20 of Colorado Springs, Colo., Vanessa Paolella '21 of Dingman's Ferry, Pa., and Abby Hamilton of Yarmouth, Maine, joined Dorothy Foster Kern 鈥�42 of Auburn, Maine, in Commons for a lunchtime conversation about what life is like on campus now vs. how it was back in the day.Kern turned 100 years old on Monday, Sept. 23, and was on campus today for her first-ever lunch in Commons, where the dining staff serenaded her with "Happy Birthday" and served up a specially-prepared birthday cake prepared by Head Baker Daisy Taylor and presented by Assistant Vice President for Dining, Conferences and Campus Events Christine Shwartz.
乐播传媒 in the News: Jan. 24, 2020

Friday, January 24, 2020 10:57 am

One professor writes about rural school closures, another studies urban heat islands, and an alumni centenarian makes it on NPR.

Left, Tamsin Stringer '22 of Bloomington, Ind., (system change not climate change) and Reilly Dwight '22 of Sebastopol, Calif. (our home is on fire) and in green jacket and black shirt on right, Ashka Jhaveri '22 of Chappaqua, N.Y.鈥淚 can't believe I'm even having to protest this.鈥�.鈥� Muskan Verma '21 of Shimla, India, shares the frustration of inaction on global climate change after she addressed a crowd of at least 2,000 at Portland City Hall gathered for the student-mobilized Global Climate Strike, ahead of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and the Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23..鈥淚'm not from this country,鈥� she said. 鈥淏ut that shouldn't matter. This is affecting us all. And whether we like it or not, we have to take action.鈥�.A representative of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led movement for climate-change action, Verma is a double major in theater and in rhetoric, film, and screen studies. She joined a large contingent of 乐播传媒 students and several faculty who attended the event, organized, in part, by the 乐播传媒 Environmental Coalition..
‘We have to take action’: 乐播传媒 students, faculty join in Global Climate Strike

Friday, September 27, 2019 11:07 am

The words are right there in the 乐播传媒 mission statement: a call to "informed civic action." And it played out in Portland last week as 乐播传媒 students took center stage at the Global Climate Strike.