Life at a school is filled with irony. Three days after weathering the largest local storm in recorded history with only sporadic power outages (at night), we lost power this morning during class hours. What would we do?
Common mythology has it that today's teens are wholly dependent on technology, and the electricity that enables it. That assumption has some validity to be sure, but it is also true that we demonstrate the resilience needed to focus on old-fashioned work without power. This is chemistry-by-candlelight:
Observe the cell phone-as-lightsource in this course, which Sue Houston calls "...the most motivated group of students I have ever known."
Let's go down a floor, and see what's happening in the math department.
Nice light in biology!
Of course, no space enjoys more brilliant natural light than the art room in Slocumb Hall!
No problem with light or acoustic instruments and percussion in the recording studio.
A forestry test involving species identification proceeds as usual.
Power on!
Journalism students listen to Gordy Megroz after power returns.
