As colleges around the country are forced to close down, college seniors are lamenting the lost opportunity to celebrate their years of hard work at commencement.
At a few colleges, the answer has been the ‘faux-memcement’— aquickly cobbled together ceremony, where garbage bags take the place of gowns, but the emotions and the sentiment are real.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks to Anupama Krishnan, a senior at Olin College (@OlinCollege) in Massachusetts, and the college’s Dean of Faculty, Mark Somerville.
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