JANE GOODALL
No more monkeyin' around
BY KATHRYN HAMILL ON OCTOBER 18, 2013
How can a bad dye job and photographers daily work have anything to do with chimpanzees? They are both included in a lecture from the household name in science, Jane Goodall. The Lecture was about her life working with the chimps in Africa and her outreach and activism program called “Roots and Shoots”.
Thanks to the Rose science department, students had the opportunity to attend Goodall’s lecture at Wright Auditorium on October 2. Every year East Carolina University has a series of great speakers, this year’s big name was Jane Goodall. Through a little back and forth with the university, seeing as though it sold out weeks in advance, Rose was able to get fifty seats held in the auditorium for the highly anticipated lecture. “It was the first guest lecture that was completely sold out,” science teacher Michael Walter said. Junior Meredith Edmonds experienced firsthand one of the effects of the full house. Since the auditorium was sold out, an overflow room was used to air the lecture to the extra audience caused by the sellout lthough Edmonds watched from afar, she still felt close to what Goodall had to share. Edmonds knew about Goodall’s work before the lecture and felt the excitement of the experience days after the lecture. “It’s not everyday you get to say that you got to meet Jane Goodall,” said Edmonds. Excitement was not the only emotion that lecture viewers had after Goodall’s lecture. Freshman Mary Tate Teaney also attended the lecture and felt called to action . “A few other girls and I want to start a Roots and Shoots program here at Rose,” said Teany. Roots and Shoots is an organization started and funded by Goodall. The expected lecture of her life with chimps and love to biological research, was replaced with a brief of her past and a lot of information about the future.Goodall started the program together to help inspire the younger generation to work to promote awareness about environmental issues ranging from sustainability, to animal issues as well as issues regarding humanitarianism. Roots and Shoots works to promote a sense of community throughout the different groups, that can be created anywhere. Extra credit offers can do worlds for students’ knowledge. Sophomore Gray Mackenzie had heard about Jane Goodall and the chimps, but was unaware of the entire Roots and Shoots program. “She talked about her time with the apes, but she taught people about Roots and Shoots,” said Mackenzie. The Jane Goodall lecture has inspired Rose students to reach out, learn more and keep going to the lectures. From the spark of an idea for a new Roots and Shoots program to just knowing more about the world around us, Goodall’s lecture went above and beyond just monkeying around. HTML Comment Box is loading comments...
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