The beginning is subtle.

Campus is still quiet, but suddenly there are unfamiliar faces in bare-shelved faculty offices.

The first upperclass students to return are coming and going around the dorms. Among those students are the AESOP leaders, who gather under Alumni Walk birches for training and earnest discussions.

A scavenger hunt dispatches Bobcat First! participants around the campus: “There’s the lake,” says one. “You mean the Puddle,” another responds.

These are portents of a new academic year at �ֲ���ý. And on Monday, Aug. 28 — Opening Day — those subtle signs will become surging activity as the Class of 2021 moves in.

Opening Day also begins Orientation for the 510 members of the class. There’s much to learn about the college, as well as about each other, during the nine days of Orientation. But Carrie Murphey, who organizes Orientation, emphasizes that it’s not a Bobcat boot camp.

For first-gen students, who arrive the week before Opening Day, the Bobcat First! program helps to foster a greater sense of well-being, belonging, and self-empowerment. Here are a few Bobcats First! students and program mentors: Kyle Larry ’21 of Chicago, Samantha Alexander ’20 of Menlow, Iowa, Doris Etienne ’20 of Brooklyn, N.Y., Anais Gonzalez ’20 of Hanford, Calif., Lebanos Mengistu ’21 of Somerville, Mass., and Samatar Iman ’21 of Auburn, Maine. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

Instead, it’s a �ֲ���ý sampler. The goal is to “forecast the type of experience you can expect to have at �ֲ���ý,” says Murphey, assistant dean of students for first-year programs and an alumna herself, Class of 2006.

+Facts and figures about the Class of 2021

The new students will have ample opportunity, she explains, to “start to see where they might fit in at �ֲ���ý and who they might fit in with. They’ll begin to see themselves in the fabric of the community.”

Pointing new students and families toward their destinations is job No. 1 on Opening Day. In this image from 2016, members of Residence Life, AESOP trip leaders, and Orientation Week Leaders steer a dad toward Kalperis Hall. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

She says, “Academically, the first-years will have time with their First-Year Seminar instructors,” who are also first-year advisers. Residentially, they’ll get to know classmates assigned to their first-year centers, as well as the 42 Junior Advisors who direct the centers.

And, as always, �ֲ���ý’ fabled AESOP trips — the Annual Entering Student Outdoor Program — will encourage the newbies to bond with both upperclass expedition leaders and, of course, the Maine outdoors that is so important to the �ֲ���ý experience.

Four days long and comprising 56 different student-run trips or programs, AESOP provides a break in the middle of Orientation. On either side of AESOP, the new kids — and their parents, at least on Opening Day — are offered programs that combine practical information with an introduction to �ֲ���ý values and signature initiatives.

In 2015, Mickai Mercer ’19 of Philadelphia and a fellow first-year sit and sketch during their AESOP trip to the art colony on Monhegan Island. This year’s Monhegan trip is “Art/Meditation” with: Olga Revzina ’18 of Bethesda, Md., and John Ricatto ’18 of Ridgewood, N.J. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

For instance, Junior Advisors, along with Brooks Quimby debaters and discussants from faculty and staff, will guide the first-years in an exploration of the 2017 Common Reading. This year, the new class was assigned , lawyer-activist Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 examination of injustice in the criminal justice system.

That’s a subject much discussed by the �ֲ���ý community in recent years. “It is a heavy set of topics, and Stevenson doesn’t write about it in a way that lightens it at all,” Murphey says. “But it allows the reader to stick with it and be close to it.”

Echoing the college’s distinctive Purposeful Work initiative, a theme of the book “is getting close to the work that you do and the things that you care about,” Murphey continues.

“And it’s just such a compellingly written book about important social justice topics — race and socioeconomic class, all these things that we want students to build a foundation for talking about at �ֲ���ý.

First-Year Seminars begin during Orientation. In this 2016 image, Assistant Professor of Biology Brett Huggett teaches basic techniques to observe and document natural life to Paige Rabb ’20 of Stamford, Conn., a student in the First-Year Seminar “The Natural History of Maine’s Neighborhoods and Woods.” (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

If the Common Reading has �ֲ���ý looking outward, the Voices of �ֲ���ý program is introspective, introducing the college to its newest members. The program debuted last year with a deeply researched interpretative performance by Anike Tourse ’92. For this year, Portland, Maine-based filmmaker Yoon Byun has created a 20-minute video comprising �ֲ���ý people’s thoughts about the college and their experiences here.

“That’s themed around acknowledging that people come into �ֲ���ý with all sorts of different experiences,” says Murphey, “and that the strength of our community is built on how we exchange those experiences and how we honor and understand each other’s perspectives. And that we are truly a stronger community when we do that effectively.

“The hope is that this conversation on the second night of Orientation will be among the first of countless others they’ll have, in informal and formal ways, over the course of four years, and as alumni too.”

Shown in 2016, the Opening Day barbecue for new students and families is an annual tradition. The menu for 2017 includes pulled pork and chicken, chipotle tofu, and, this being Maine, three varieties of whoopie pies. (Josh Kuckens/�ֲ���ý College)

A few hundred old (and not so old) �ֲ���ý hands will be around to help the newbies settle in on Monday. The upperclass students will include 24 Orientation Week Leaders (who? OWLs) and their coordinator; 65 Junior Advisors and Residence Coordinators; and 112 AESOP trip leaders, along with six AESOP coordinators.

In addition, Murphey notes, about 35 faculty First-Year Seminar instructors will meet first-years in advising sessions, and additional faculty will take part in the Common Reading and Voices of �ֲ���ý discussions. Some, she notes, will be around in part because they simply want to get a sense of the new arrivals.

Twenty-five or so �ֲ���ý staff in Welcome Crew T-shirts will be ready and willing to assist students and families in all kinds of ways. And they’re just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to staff hospitality on Opening Day, says Murphey.

“An incredible number of people in the college care deeply about welcoming new students and their families, and they’ll be around on Opening Day and throughout Orientation,” Murphey says — “helpful, warm, friendly, and just extending that characteristic �ֲ���ý spirit.”

Behold the power of furniture.

The college’s residence hall at 280 College Avenue, opened in 2007, includes study rooms designed for small groups. Each room has a table for six, but occupancy rarely tops one or two students.

That’s a prevailing American social response to tables: One person seems to own the whole thing. So a single student in that �ֲ���ý study room can effectively, if not intentionally, take over the whole space — other students don’t want to intrude.

Furniture, in short, shapes psychological space. It’s a lesson taken to heart by the �ֲ���ý people who influenced the design of the college’s new residences, Kalperis and Chu halls, at 65 and 55 Campus Ave. respectively.

By diversifying furnishings in the common spaces, “we were trying to mix together single users, smaller groups, and larger groups,” says Pam Wichroski, the college’s director of capital planning and construction.

A mix of furniture, an inventive floor plan, and an cozy fireplace (out of sight around a corner) combine to make the Chu Hall lobby an attractive gathering spot. (Josh Kuckens/�ֲ���ý College)

That’s an example of interior design as a means of shaping interactions — a kind of social engineering long understood at �ֲ���ý, where residential life is integral to the educational mission.

Providing common spaces, and furniture, that suit different kinds of people is a way to get those people talking to and learning from each other.

“The principles of inclusivity, diversity, and community were embedded into the design and the planning process” for the new dorms, says Philip Chen, principal architect on the project for Ann Beha Architects.

Beha surveyed students about their housing experiences and preferences at the beginning of planning, Chen says. Eighty-four percent of respondents ranked “living with friends” as the first or second consideration in making their housing choices. “So we knew that building community was a key goal for this project.”

Diverse furniture is one approach to healthy res life, but it’s not the only one. Here’s a closer look at interior design concepts that �ֲ���ý and project designer Ann Beha Architects emphasized at Kalperis and Chu.

Campus crossroads

The presence of the College Store and Post & Print in Kalperis Hall brings a new density of �ֲ���ý people to the south edge of campus. Here, arriving members and families of the Class of 2020 stock up at the store in late August 2016. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/�ֲ���ý College)

The boldest stroke of social engineering in the new dorms was the relocation of the College Store and Post & Print (the former Office Services) to the first floor of Kalperis Hall, adjacent to a welcoming lobby with mixed seating and a fireplace.

This arrangement echoes a national trend on residential campuses, says architect Chen: “vertical housing” that integrates ground-floor retail space with housing above. In �ֲ���ý’ case, he notes, “the rise of online shopping has made packaging and postal services a primary campus function.”

Now a state-of-the-art handling center for the avalanche of packages that arrives daily for students, “Post & Print along with the Campus Store will create a daily hub of activity and student traffic.”

And not just students. The store and P&P are broadly useful businesses that, sooner or later, will draw in virtually everyone on campus — and they’re open to the general public, too.

“That whole area is becoming a bit more of a center for campus, or least is more heavily traveled than it has been in the past,” says Matt Phillips ’17 of Acton, Mass., residence coordinator for Chu Hall. “So it’s really nice to have lots of different spaces where people can hang out, even if you don’t live in the dorms.”

How suite they aren’t: Singles and doubles

In planning the new dorms, “we spent quite a bit of time looking at the mix of student rooms on campus,” says Pam Wichroski, �ֲ���ý’ director of capital planning and construction.

The result is an echo, if not a replica, of a concept employed at 280 College Street. In that residence, and now Kalperis and Chu, the once-trendy notion of suites gave way to a more outward-facing model: “We ended up mixing singles and doubles, grouped in clusters that are broken up with common areas,” Wichroski says.

Isabella Del Priore ’19 of Cos Cob, Conn., poses for a portrait in her fourth-floor room in Kalperis Hall. “It really feels like a community. Having the kitchen close by is nice, and all my friends come up here to hang out.” (Josh Kuckens/�ֲ���ý College)

That allows friends to lodge near each other while encouraging them to socialize in common areas, instead of holing up behind closed doors. The clusters at Chu and Kalperis include first-year centers on the second floor of each dorm.

Lounge where?

The residence at 280 College laid important groundwork for Kalperis and Chu halls in other ways. Taking the older residence as a baseline, student input on the new dorms suggested allocating less space for student bedrooms and applying the savings to common areas.

They also made clear that what they want in their living space is flexibility — a diversity of environments to meet a diversity of learning and socializing styles.

For instance, “students want to study in groups, and they want to study by themselves,” says Erin Foster Zsiga, head of residential life. “They need complete quiet so they’re not distracted, and they need to be around people.”

In short, they wanted variety and they got it. “One of the things that’s really interesting is the fact that there are so many different common areas,” says Matt Phillips.

Taken in August shortly before students moved into Kalperis Hall, this lounge serves a cluster of student rooms. Note the mixed furniture — a table and chairs at rear, and soft furniture for TV viewing — and the glass walls, which afford what’s called “flow-by quality.” (Doug Hubley/�ֲ���ý College)

There’s a common space for every personality and purpose. Spaces range in size from intimate nooks, like diner booths, to the Treehouse, the sprawling fourth-floor lounge in Kalperis Hall that’s like a family rec room writ large.

Sofas and banquettes and chairs, oh my

The wooden storage units in this Chu Hall student room can take two forms: stacked to function as bureaus, as shown, and separated into two-drawer units that slide under the beds. (Doug Hubley/�ֲ���ý College)

Planning for the new residences included “exhaustive furniture testing” with students, Foster Zsiga says.

Flexibility was the watchword for furniture, too — as applied both to the mix of items within rooms, and to specific models like the bedroom storage bins that can live either under the bed or stacked up, like a little bureau.

The result is mind-boggling furniture diversity. (If only the tribes of humanity could co-exist so peacefully and productively.) In study areas, for instance, large rectangular tables accommodate large groups and small round ones are ready for more intimate gatherings. “The furniture sends a signal that this is a study space for multiple people,” says Foster Zsiga, alluding to those six-seat tables for one in the 280 College study rooms.

Large lounges bring furniture diversity to its ultimate. In the Treehouse, easy chairs and a sofa offer an invitation to bliss out while gazing into the gas fireplace. Away from the fireplace, there are smaller groupings of soft furniture for tête-à-têtes.

Near the kitchen, there’s a farmhouse table with benches for studying or snacking. In the kitchen itself, a long counter with stools affords a great view toward Chu Hall.

And the kitchen at Chu, like the one in Smith Hall’s newly renovated basement, boasts what appears to be a new �ֲ���ý trend in public furniture: long banquettes with little tables that, restaurant-like, can be used by solo diners or pushed together for groups. Flexibility!

Hello? Goodbye? Flow-by!

Associate Dean of Students James Reese named another formative concept built into 280 College. “Flow-by quality” refers to a kind of visual access to a room that allows students to reconnoiter before committing themselves to entering.

Wenkai Han ’17 of Beijing, China, works on his resume in a “niche” in Chu Hall. Spaces like this have “flow-by ” quality: A student can watch any social action nearby with an easy choice of joining or not. (Josh Kuckens/�ֲ���ý College)

Common spaces that succeed socially, Reese explains, are “positioned such that a person can walk by and easily view in to see who is there, while also being able to walk away naturally.” New arrivals are spared the awkwardness of entering a space only to leave because they don’t know anyone.

Flow-by abounds in Kalperis and Chu. Lounges are situated near heavily trafficked areas like stairwells and corridor junctions. Study areas have doors and even walls with a lot of glass. A few brilliantly achieve flow-by via graphics, adapted from decades-old �ֲ���ý Manufacturing Co. textile designs, applied to the glass walls that make it easier to see in than out.

Again, the Treehouse may be the crowning example of flow-by. It’s a destination that’s also a thoroughfare, with an adjoining TV room and elevator at one end, a kitchen and access to sleeping quarters at the other, and the dorm’s laundry room midway along. The Treehouse is the place to be — but when it’s not, there are always other places to go.

And a twist on the concept is a booth-like niche in the Chu lobby (with a counterpart in the Smith Hall basement) that works like flow-by in reverse: The booth allows occupants to watch the social action flow by without committing to either joining or abstaining.

Open kitchens

A variety of seating arrangements, including a long banquette at rear and stools at the counter, accommodate a variety of personalities and activities in the Chu Hall kitchen. This image was taken just days after the first students moved into Chu, in late August 2016. (Doug Hubley/�ֲ���ý College)

The kitchen at 280 College has proven to be a little small, Wichroski says, because students tend to stay there to eat. “The dining area is remote from it, and students almost never take their food from the kitchen into the larger living area.”

In contrast, the Kalperis and Chu kitchens are spacious and amply equipped with seating. And, of course, it’s mixed seating: farmhouse tables, banquettes, counters with stools, high-tops.

Kitchen placement, of course, was intentional: The kitchens are adjacent to large lounges in each dorm, but distinct from them. “There’s a nice flow between the two spaces,” says Molly Newton ’11, associate director of residence life.

The kitchens in Kalperis and especially Chu, the larger of the two, are meant to be used by the whole student body. “We really want students to be able to say, ‘These are great vibrant spaces and I want to be part of that,'” says Foster Zsiga.

“Our students want to sit and talk over food, and they want to learn about other cultures over food.”

Seen a couple of weeks before students moved into Kalperis Hall, a fourth-floor eat-in kitchen adjoins, but is distinct from, the Treehouse lounge. (Doug Hubley/�ֲ���ý College)

Because �ֲ���ý went to the mattresses, in a sense, over the summer, swapping out more than 700 mattresses in student residences, some families in Northern Maine might soon be sleeping better.

Out with the old and in with the new, as workers deliver new mattresses to Webb House on Frye Street on Aug. 18, 2015. At the same time, they removed old mattresses, which were donated to Catholic Charities Maine to support its programs in Aroostook County. (Photographs by Jay Burns/�ֲ���ý College)

As the old foam mattresses left campus, nary a landfill got filled. Instead, the mattresses were hauled far north, to Aroostook County, where Catholic Charities Maine will sell them from three thrift stores in the county.

Turning furniture into food.

The money made in CCM thrift stores, in turn, supports the organization’s food bank, which supplies 25 food pantries in the county. “We literally turn furniture into food,” says Dixie Shaw, CCM director of hunger and relief services. “People get beds for their children, and we get food for their tables.”

David Larrabee, who oversees the operation for �ֲ���ý Facility Services, explains that while �ֲ���ý has, in the past, donated a small number of old mattresses to other nonprofits, including summer camps for economically disadvantaged children, for big jobs like this the college bunks up with CCM.

If knowing about this sustainable sleep cycle doesn’t help �ֲ���ý students catch some Z’s, the comfy new mattresses should, says Larrabee.

The new mattresses are inner-spring, while the ones they’re replacing were an older foam style. Larrabee has been testing out the new model by installing it in a few rooms on campus, “and the feedback to Student Affairs has been good,” he says.

�ֲ���ý also donated old recycle bins, which were immediately put to use to harvest vegetables on farmland donated to CCM, veggies destined for local food pantries. (Photograph courtesy Catholic Charities Maine)

As the new mattresses were installed, bedboards were put aside. This decorated bedboard had an inscription that read, in part, "Practice love. Keep your head high. Don't forget you are how you act."

The new mattresses are ready for their sleepy students.

David Larrabee of �ֲ���ý Facility Services and his workers move old mattresses from a staging area in Underhill Arena to a waiting Catholic Charities Maine truck.

Into the truck the old mattresses go.

Regardless of comfort, it was time to replace the old ones. “Some are up to 15 years old,” he says. “At least none have straw.” Meanwhile, the 950 or so student mattresses not being replaced this time around are a newer, memory-foam style that are “still in very good shape,” he adds.

This summer’s new mattresses, the “Life Safety II Comfort” model, come from Bourdon’s Institutional Sales in Claremont, N.H. Economically priced at $128 per mattress, they measure 36 inches by 80 inches and are 8 inches thick. (For all you parents planning to buy sheets for your first-years, that size is equivalent to twin extra long.)

On Aug. 18, Larrabee’s moving crew was on Frye Street, removing old mattresses and putting in new ones in the various 19th-century houses, including Parsons (29), Chase (19), Moulton (22), Webb (21), and Hacker (20).

As the workers pulled out the old mattresses, they also set aside many of the plywood bedboards. “With the new mattresses, there shouldn’t be a need for bedboards,” said Larrabee.

Though if the bedboards go away, it might affect students more during waking hours. Conveniently sized, they’re useful tabletops for parties. Sure enough, one of the boards in Moulton was decorated end to end with happy birthday wishes.

The old mattresses were hauled to a staging area, in Underhill Arena, where they were picked up the next day by a CCM truck

As the driver got ready to leave, his truck filled top to bottom with mattresses (as opposed to 22,000 pounds of donated french fries on another trip), Larrabee helped him shove a stack of plastic recycle bins into the passenger seat.

That was another �ֲ���ý donation, a few of the 200 bins that CCM volunteers are now using to harvest vegetables — rutabagas, beets, and squash — grown on donated land.

Known as the Farm for ME program, the veggies supply the CCM food bank.

“Donations from �ֲ���ý go so much further than you can imagine,” says Shaw.

But if parts of a new academic year are routine, those unchanging routines bump up against “a whole new set of characters” that turns the �ֲ���ý campus into a long-running, fascinating human drama, Reese says.

“There are the new personalities in the entering class,” Reese explains. “Fresh sophomores have new thoughts and new energies. And there are the seniors who have really crossed that line to become the mature individual that they wanted to be, and were moving toward since their first year.”

It’s a swell investment of time considering what the card is good for. It’s not just access to your residence and other buildings, but it’s also your meal ticket in New Commons, your library card and, in a fairly recent development, your license to print documents from a computer in Ladd Library. Where previously many clients would send docs to the printer and then forsake them, now you must swipe your ID card at the printer for your documents to emerge.

Suzy Nattress, who manages the college’s card-operated building access system, estimates that some 325 students picked up their key and card sets by the end of Monday. Most were first-years bound for outdoor trips with AESOP. Others were early-arriving �ֲ���ý varsity athletes.

Across campus, ID cards are a topic at the College Store too, as store director Sarah Potter consulted at length with a first-year student and his parents as they pondered a rack of ID holders and lanyards. “It’s the biggest decision you’ll have to make,” Potter joked.

Maybe not so big, but not so easy either. “There are four colors, there are single and double card holders, there’s just the shoestring size, the little purse size, there’s the breakaway clip — there’s a dozen different choices,” Potter explained later.

Does �ֲ���ý use the students’ mug shots for anything besides the ID cards? Yes, Nattress says — they’re supplied to faculty to help with recognizing new faces.

On Monday, the ID station was in Pettengill Hall, where arriving students got help unlocking the mysteries of the post-office box system. And there were two tables for obtaining room keys. At one table you would sign a copy of the key-use policy, and at the second one the keys were actually handed out, plucked by a student worker from a long tray of carefully sorted keys.

The first key table had a special added attraction. Just for the occasion, Nattress’ assistant, Ursula Sandstrom ’13 of Seattle, baked cookies all weekend, Nattress said. There were snickerdoodles, chocolate sugar snaps and chocolate moose cookies. “That’s a first for us,” said Nattress.

In an effort to reduce energy consumption on campus, �ֲ���ý will be turning down the heat in buildings across campus during the winter break. The adjustments are expected to save money and reduce the college’s emissions of greenhouse gases.

With students away from Dec. 18 through Jan. 8, and many staff and faculty members also absent for much of that time, most campus facilities will be used minimally or not at all.  Heating and lighting unoccupied spaces beyond required safety levels is wasteful.

�ֲ���ý will minimize such waste by reducing temperatures throughout campus where possible. Buildings that will have be occupied during the break, for example by international students who stay on campus through the break, will be maintained at an average of 65 degrees F.

Unoccupied buildings will be heated only to 55 degrees.

Staff members will monitor buildings to ensure that they don’t fall below the designated temperatures.

Members of the �ֲ���ý community have worked together over the last two years to identify and implement ways to reduce the waste of energy on campus, driven by concerns about cost and the college’s our environmental footprint.

The college’s Committee on Environmental Responsibility and Energy Task Force estimate that the curtailment program will save in excess of $50,000 over the break.

Setting back temperatures will require the cooperation and attention of all parties involved. Before you leave for the holidays please make sure your windows are closed and your thermostat is turned down (if applicable).

A table that identifies targeted temperature levels for each building over the upcoming break period and the dates for the curtailment can be found here.

As the table indicates, most academic and administrative buildings will experience normal temperatures except for the period when they are expected to be unoccupied (Dec. 24-Jan. 2).

As most employees aren’t expected to work during this period,  those who will be on the job are asked to dress accordingly. Heating systems will not be adjusted on an individual basis. Please refrain from using space heaters if possible as they are extremely inefficient and greatly increase the risk of fire.

Students required to be on campus over break, as well as those with permission from the Dean of Students office, will be housed according to the plan.  The Housing Office has finalized these residences and will be in touch with each student who has permission to stay.  All other residential housing will be deemed unoccupied and temperatures will be reduced accordingly.

Facility Services plans to convert all buildings back to their normal temperatures one day prior to occupancy:  Jan. 2, 2011, for academic and administrative buildings, and Jan. 8 for all residential housing. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact a member of the Committee on Environmental Responsibility.

The Energy Task Force and the Committee on Environmental Responsibility have completed significant projects to improve energy efficiency and encourage conservation. In fiscal year 2010 the college was able to reduce consumption by 9 percent, resulting in more than $450,000 in energy savings.

In fiscal year 2011, utility expenses are budgeted at approximately $4 million, representing one of the single largest college expenditures both financially (roughly 4.3 percent of the total budget) and environmentally (more than 85 percent of �ֲ���ý’ greenhouse gas emissions).

The demonstration room came complete with empty pizza boxes and a cloth tapestry that partially covered a ceiling smoke detector (such a tapestry setup is against residential life rules).

It took less than 5 minutes for the fire to roar out of control.

If you woke to smoke and fire in your residence hall or house, how would you respond?

To get a sense of what that experience might be like, attend Fire Safety Day on Thursday Oct. 28 in the grassy space between Garcelon Field and Bardwell Street. Activities begin at 11 a.m.

Fire safety information will be provided by the �ֲ���ý College Environmental Health and Safety Department.  T-shirts and safety-related gifts will be available to early attendees and activitiy participants, until supplies run out.  Printed materials will be available to everyone.

A live burn demonstration of a simulated residence hall room will show how quickly a fire spreads and generates huge volumes of smoke.

At 11:30 a.m. there will be a live burn demonstration of a simulated fully decorated residence hall room.  Firefighters will be on hand to answer questions and put out the fire after participants see how quickly a fire spreads and generates huge volumes of smoke.

A smoke-filled trailer (theatrical smoke) will allow participants to experience what it is like to find their way through a smoke-filled space.

An obstacle course will be set up for participants to try to negotiate while wearing special impaired-vision glasses which simulate various levels of intoxication.

The events will be filmed and participants will be interviewed so that a safety training film can be created for use in the future.

The event is open to all members of the �ֲ���ý community.

The Lewiston Fire Department, members of student government and Human Resources staff will be manning tables and supervising the activities.

The activities are organized by the �ֲ���ý College Environmental Health and Safety Department, and paid for with funds awarded in a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to the College. �ֲ���ý Environmental Health and Safety Specialist Jim Guzelian noted that the Fire Safety Day activities are “enthusiastically supported” by the Lewiston Fire Department.