Washington State University Vancouver held a drive-thru graduation ceremony Saturday afternoon, transforming the campus access roads and parking lots into a mile-long procession route for graduates from the fall 2020 and spring 2021 terms.
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One idle Saturday afternoon I wreaked havoc on the virtual town of Harmony Square, “a green and pleasant place,” according to its founders, famous for its pond swan, living statue and Pineapple Pizza Festival. Using a fake news site called Megaphone tagged with the slogan “everything louder than everything else” and an army of bots, I ginned up outrage and divided the citizenry. In the end, Harmony Square was in shambles.
I thoroughly enjoyed my 10 minutes of villainy even laughed outright a few times. And that was the point. My beleaguered town is the centre of the action for the online game Breaking Harmony Square, a collaboration between the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, psychologists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and DROG, a Dutch initiative that uses gaming and education to fight misinformation. In my role as chief disinformation officer of Harmony Square, I learned about the manipulation techniques people
Washington State University Vancouver to honor 1,018 grads in virtual events
Pandemic keeps commencement events virtual
Published: May 5, 2021, 5:05pm
Share: 2019 Washington State University Vancouver graduates at Sunlight Supply Amphitheater. (Roberto Rodriguez for The Columbian)
Washington State University Vancouver will honor 1,018 graduates Saturday in two nontraditional commencement events because of COVID-19.
The honorees include graduates from the fall 2020, and spring and summer 2021 terms. The graduates include 32 doctoral candidates, 72 master’s candidates and 914 bachelor’s candidates.
Because of COVID-19, the school plans to hold a virtual systemwide WSU graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. and a drive-thru celebration at the WSU Vancouver campus from 1 to 4:30 p.m.
The Historic Trust’s 2021 General George C. Marshall Leadership Awards recipients are Jasmine Tolbert and Pu-kai Tseng, both of whom serve as presidents of nonprofit organizations in Clark County.