Letter to the Editor
Keep it up!
Issue date: 10/27/06 Section: Ed-Op
Originally published: 10/26/06 at 10:29 PM EST
Last update: 11/3/06 at 4:26 AM EST
Originally published: 10/26/06 at 10:29 PM EST
Last update: 11/3/06 at 4:26 AM EST
Editor:
Having had the pleasure and privilege of being associated with Drexel since 1967, I have on many occasions been especially proud of our student body, as when student groups traveled over spring break to help repair Indian reservation schools, tought alternative technology skills in Haiti, or collected funds or goods for this or that worthy local charity.
Another such occasion occurred unexpectedly this past Saturday. My wife Lynn and I had joined two busloads of Philadelphians to learn more about the remarkable 2,703 artworks of the city's Mural Arts Program (the largest such program in the world). As our buses made their way through West Philadelphia, only one of the many city areas enriched by the wall murals, we kept noticing groups of Drexel students busy planting trees. After this happy sight repeated over and again, I urged the tour guide to take notice over the bus microphone, and everybody broke spontaneously into loud admiring applause, with several shouting: "Go Drexel!"
This is just the sort of public-spirited behavior we want associated with our "green" university, and I write to salute and thank all who took part in the weekend tree-planting project.
Art Shostak
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, 1967-2003
Having had the pleasure and privilege of being associated with Drexel since 1967, I have on many occasions been especially proud of our student body, as when student groups traveled over spring break to help repair Indian reservation schools, tought alternative technology skills in Haiti, or collected funds or goods for this or that worthy local charity.
Another such occasion occurred unexpectedly this past Saturday. My wife Lynn and I had joined two busloads of Philadelphians to learn more about the remarkable 2,703 artworks of the city's Mural Arts Program (the largest such program in the world). As our buses made their way through West Philadelphia, only one of the many city areas enriched by the wall murals, we kept noticing groups of Drexel students busy planting trees. After this happy sight repeated over and again, I urged the tour guide to take notice over the bus microphone, and everybody broke spontaneously into loud admiring applause, with several shouting: "Go Drexel!"
This is just the sort of public-spirited behavior we want associated with our "green" university, and I write to salute and thank all who took part in the weekend tree-planting project.
Art Shostak
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, 1967-2003
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