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| President's reception in beautiful Wheelock Center |
Every year University of Puget Sound holds a homecoming weekend in October. Family, friends and alumni are all invited for concerts, lectures, plays, musical performances, and a football game in the rain. The weekend kicks off with the President's reception in the classy Wheelock student center. (I wish my student center had been so nice.) Benjamin, who is now a sophomore, met us there. His dorm is a stone's throw away.
The interesting thing about the reception was not the gracious speech by outgoing President Ron Thomas (known by students as "Ron Thom"), but the "invasion" of the reception by the Puget Sound Student Union (PSSU) who were picketing for divestment of fossil fuel stocks. They held up hand lettered signs that read "Don't be a fossil fool." No one seemed to mind, and a few parents held up signs too. Now, that's Northwest Nice for you.
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