Arcadia University Bulletin

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Professor Mark Wade and a brigade of 26 theater students piled into a bus and headed west, about 275 miles, to Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa., where the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) was held in early January. Only six of them were cast members in Arcadia’s production of The Swing of the Sea—one of eight plays selected for performance at the regional festival—but as Wade explains, “You take a truckload of people [along]” to pull everything together.

The technical feats and physical labor required to stage a traveling show are awesome, and often invisible. [...]

The Office of Community Service is hosting the largest area Pack-A-Thon for Stop Hunger Now on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Dome.

“As a packer, the more money raised (minimum of $25), the more they can pack at the event,” say Cindy Rubino, Community Service Officer. “Our goal for the event is to raise a minimum of $10,000 equal to 40,000 meals, so we are inviting the Arcadia community along with community members and organizations to join us in this effort. The Dome can hold over 800 people, so it is feasible to double our initial goal if we can engage 800 community participants.”

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. At only 25 cents a meal, the organization has sent more than 34 million meals to more than 72 countries worldwide. [...]

Two rigs drilled 42 wells that provide geothermal energy for heating and cooling the Commons.

Harvest the rain. Reach into the earth. Soak up the sun. Arcadia’s newest building—the Commons—is a beautiful open design that beckons visitors with its natural light, warm colors and comfortable spaces on the surface and a high-tech sustainability system beneath.

If Grey Towers Castle is known for its ghostly tales, then the new Commons will be known for its “spirits” that turn off the lights when no one is looking and even open the windows to let in the fresh air. It’s a marriage of technology and earth’s bounty that promises a more sustainable future. Some of its “green” features include:

• Smart windows—Some windows are smart, opening and closing themselves to provide outside air to the building when they sense the pre-programmed need.

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