Where junior Tavia Vitkauskas worked over the summer, local kids would call her “the white one.” For some, she was the first white person they had ever seen. Vitkauskas interned in the South Asian country of Nepal for five weeks. She worked with a company called Adhunik Agricultural Cooperative Ltd., which assists small local farms....
On senior Susena Finnegan’s last day working at Jilly Beans café before traveling to Kansas for the summer, a regular customer came through the door. Often, she came with gifts. Once, it was a doll, another time, an espresso glass. “She brought me a watermelon,” Finegan said with a chuckle. “She said, ‘I knew you...
As senior Emily Rinaldi dissects cadavers in the anatomy lab, her biology professor, Dan York, will often pause at her side and say, “‘Hey, Em, what is the homework for this Thursday?’” It’s a genuine question of York’s, not a pop quiz to test Rinaldi’s knowledge of the Anatomy II Syllabus. In another lab, across...
After piling into a white van with nine other professors and students, Professor of History Matthew Gaetano turned around and said, “I have a chauffeur’s license. Let that sink in.” It was Thursday after classes, and seven students, Professor of Philosophy Lee Cole, Professor of English Dwight Lindley, and Gaetano were embarking on a four-hour...
Provost David Whalen said he encourages professors to audit their colleagues’ classes, just as Biology Professor Dan York has done this semester in taking Photography II from Photography Professor Doug Coon. His encouragement has worked — a handful of professors add extra hours in a classroom building to their schedules every semester, but they spend...