{"id":16950,"date":"2021-09-02T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T19:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-news\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2026-03-03T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:36:44","slug":"first-thursday-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/2021\/09\/first-thursday-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thursday 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoWrapper video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/596754662\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, faculty, and staff gathered\u2013both in person and online\u2013on the First Thursday of the fall semester to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. This year\u2019s featured speaker was our new Provost, Lisa Anderson-Levy. Here is the poem she referenced in her remarks,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/30\/845910766\/if-the-trees-can-keep-dancing-so-can-i-a-community-poem-to-cope-in-crisis\">If The Trees Can Keep Dancing, So Can I<\/a> from NPR&#8217;s poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander. In addition, we heard from President Rivera, MCSG President Shreya Nagdev, Macalester Board Chair Carrie Norbin Killoran &#8217;94, The Rev. Kelly Stone, <em>Mac of All Trades<\/em> a capella group, and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community gathers to welcome in the new academic year<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","mediatype-videos"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"fields":{"article_type":[2],"flickr_photoset_id":"","youtube_id":"","square_thumbnail":false,"press_photos":false,"story_title":"","story_caption":"","rotations":false,"maps":false,"marker_title":"","marker_text":"","geographic_location":false,"feature_embed":"","custom_link_url":"","news_icon_name":"","image_options":false,"main_feature_story":"","custom_image":false,"custom_feature_title":"","custom_feature_caption":"","custom_markup":"","custom_markup_link":"","custom_markup_title":"","custom_markup_caption":"","byline":"","post_thumbnail_style":"default","press_downloads":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16950"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31065,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions\/31065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}