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Number 460 • Year XI COMMUNITY see page 3
Gift from Marleen Forkas to Name FAU’s Studio One Theatre
East /West Boca Raton, Highland Beach, Delray Beach, Deerfield Beach, FL COMMUNITY see page 4
#CommunityHeroes: Nonprofits Serve up Free hot Meals with a Side of Compassion
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FAU High Students Miss Two Commencements Due to COVID-19
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FAU College of Nursing Graduates join Front Lines of COVID-19
PBSC helps public safety students impacted by Covid-19 Palm Beach State College has developed a plan to help more than 200 public safety students whose training was halted by the coronavirus outbreak. Without the hands-on skills training required to complete their programs, students in the Police and Fire academies and the Paramedic and Emergency Medical Technician programs would remain in limbo, unable to graduate and take their state tests. “They are first responders. We considered them essential in our workforce, and they were very close to graduating,” said Barbara Cipriano, associate dean of Public Safety and interim director of Corporate and Continuing Education. Continued on Page 5
May 8 - May 14, 2020 SPORTS
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FAU Women’s Tennis Welcomes Vicic as 2020 Signee
Citizenship Project creates a cycle of giving
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Feeding South Florida to Host Mega Food Distribution at Boynton Beach Mall
Story on Page 3 Based ondata indicating where the highest volume of additional requests for support is due to COVID-19, Feeding South Florida® is holding a South County mega food distribution on Saturday, May 9, 9–11 a.m. The event ― taking place at the Boynton Beach Mall/ Christ Fellowship Church parking lot at 801 N. Congress Avenue, Boynton Beach 33426 ― will serve 5,000 families and replace the location’s Thursday distribution this week only. Feeding South Florida, the leading domestic hunger-relief organization in South Florida, has seen a 600% increase in demand since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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What is important to you? Anna Krift, associate professor and Citizenship Project director, wants to know. “Of all the challenges in this world, what are you concerned about? What are you passionate about?” Krift raised the stakes further, “If you could be a change agent for something, what would that be?” Lynn University faculty posed these questions to first-year students in 2012. The answers— environmental sustainability, homelessness and urban renewal—created the framework for Lynn’s signature service program, the Citizenship Project. Today, the project is a required part of each student’s education—a time for Fighting Knights to prove their priorities through community action. Moreover, it’s a chance for them to take the lead in determining how they want to make a difference in the world. “Initially, these were faculty-driven courses,” Krift explained. “In the past two years,
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