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University of Massachusetts Student Success & Outreach Librarian Annette Vadnais, dressed as Batman, leads a Superhero Trivia game on Zoom with fellow librarian Lauren Weiss - on screen, in the persona of sidekick Robin - from home on Thursday, April 29, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
UMass Student Success & Outreach Librarian Annette Vadnais, dressed as Batman, helps lead a Superhero Trivia game on Zoom on Thursday with questions devised by assistant Lauren Weiss. STAFF PHOTOS/KEVIN GUTTING
University of Massachusetts Student Success & Outreach Librarian Annette Vadnais, top center, dressed as Batman, helps lead a Superhero Trivia game on Zoom for nine people with Library Marketing and Outreach Assistant Lauren Weiss, top left, dressed as Robin, on Thursday night, April 29, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
The Great Experiment: Ski slopes and calzones
JP McDonald, seen outside the Isenberg School of Management, will graduate from UMass this spring with a master’s degree in accounting. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN GUTTING
Published: 4/30/2021 5:01:50 PM
Editor’s note: This story is part of The Great Experiment, a series produced by Professor Kathy Roberts Forde’s Longform Narrative class in the Journalism Department at the UMass Amherst.
With mountains of powdery white snow underfoot and a starry night sky overhead, John-Paul McDonald, known to friends as JP, has found a new way to spend Friday nights. JP, a graduate student studying accounting at UMass, had gone skiing only a few times before the pandemic sent everyone indoors last March. This winter it was his regular weekend outing with a small circle of friends, a replacement for pre-pandemic partying.