We, the Young Professionals, cultivate resumes, not characters. We sacrifice nutrition and seek out networks. We spend our four years mastering whatever roles it takes to get through each week. The starving student who is hungry for degrees, not dinner. The daydreamer who thrives off power naps and ambition rather than a proper sleep schedule. The anti-social socialite who overcommits to clubs and events, yet always feels alone.
While Duke’s plan to house some first-year students on West Campus for the fall was a positive experience for many, some first-year students have chosen to relocate to East for the spring.
The big story for 2020 is of course the pandemic and how cities, schools and businesses adjusted to the crisis. Still, in looking back there were also other worthy headlines. The volunteers who selflessly made masks for front-liners, police raises and a successful passing of the first ever police millage in Memphis and the strong voice of a young college student from Richmond who wants to see training and curriculum related to diversity and racism introduced at Richmond Community Schools.
Hereâs a look back at the year in North Macomb.
JANUARY
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⢠RICHMOND SUPERINTENDENT COMPLAINTS RESOLVED: Seven administrators and two secretaries at Richmond Community Schools filed harassment complaints against Superintendent Brian Walmsley in October 2019, and in response, the school board directed its attorneys at Thrun Law Firm PC to conduct an investigation. In early January, the school board accepted the findings of the investigation, which found Walmsley did not