MCLA degree emphasizes love, friendliness, justice / Iberkshires.com.

North Adams, Mass. – The class of MCLA from 2025 was reminded of tracking it with love, kindness and persecution.

“I grew up as my grandmother wanted to be. When my grandmother was alive, she always spoke that we live in the end times, but somehow her acceptance that we lived in the last movement of the world, her ability to friendliness even higher.

“She understood that all great people don't get a ceremony, but we have to be solemn for all people in this world.”

Graduates marched through the iron gates in the Church Street, before they received 187 students and 38 degrees in sciences, art, economy, education and much more. This was the 126th annual beginning of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

“MCLA is a small institution, but delivers great results,” said Paul Paradiso, who acquired a Master of Business Administration.

“I stand here alone, just because I was surrounded by a community of students and faculties. We are here both because of group efforts and for the individual drive. We work regardless of projects, but none of us came here all alone.”

President James Birge recalled the students that this day is academic work and performance for years.

“During their time at MCLA, they created a long list of achievements and inspired us with their success in the classroom, in the laboratory, on stage, in the gallery, on the sporting playing areas and in the community.

“They were admitted to honorary societies, held an office in the student government, produced art, theater, dance and spoken words, goals, runs and baskets and baskets and crossed finish lines. Some of them returned to school after their time, brought them with professional and lifelong experiences, the class discussions enriched and the importance of lifelong learning.”

Birge said he and his colleagues were called for their work at MCLA according to a common purpose: to contribute to the upbringing of the next generation of managers.

Brigh Cote, a communication major with a focus on public relations and corporate communication, explained that she was transferred twice and joined the army, where it currently serves as Sergeant. Cotees at MCLA has “meant the world for me” for various reasons, an inclusive nature.

“When I heard about this school for the first time, I was sitting in my kitchen after I had a meeting with my previous college, in which I was informed that a fine of $ 50 was punished for a relationship with someone of the same gender. I knew that I had to get out of such a place,” she said.

“How could I visit a college where I cost money? I started googling hockey teams immediately, the players needed when my sister called me to tell me that a college called Massachusetts, College of Liberal Arts, was looking for players how they wanted to start a program.

Cote only had a question for Mclas Hockey coach: Can I be gay in your team? She reported that the line was silent for a minute before her phone buzzed and a photo of two LGBTQ+ cups appeared on the screen.

“He returned to the phone and said: 'I have to ask my sports director and her wife to see if this will be a problem,” said Cote, followed by laughter and cheers from the crowd.

During her first hockey season, which was also the first time in the history of the MCLA that the women's team was set up to take part in a regular season, little girls from the whole city stood at the door of the team before entering the ice and issued high-five.

“I learned a lot from you without you knowing it at all. At the last home game of the season, I am about to take the ice cream for the third period when I feel the tap on my shoulder. It was one of the little girl's mothers and she told me, 'I just wanted her daughter's favorite course.

“… It met me at that moment that we had an impact on this city and little girls from the Berkshires showed that they could be exactly like us.”

A “heartbreaking” injury in 2024 ended Cote's College sports career, but she became the official voice of the MCLA women's hockey league. “This had helped me to overcome the intense feelings that I had because I didn't play but gave me a sense of the purpose,” she said.

Cote asked the graduates to be the person they once needed.

“Be the teammate, the friend, the voice, encouragement, the safe space, because out there someone hopes to find the kind of community that we built here at MCLA,” she said.

“Do not reduce yourself to places for which you were not built. Expand them, fill them out with your truth.”

During the ceremony, honorary speakers were awarded to Laymon, the President of the Naacp Berkshire County, Dennis L. Powell, the superintendent of the North Adams Public Schools, Barbara Malkas, and Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier.

Laymon spoke about Sesame Strasse, grandmothers and style.

His grandmother had no opening ceremony at home in Mississippi because she could not visit high school, college or university and instead had to cancel the high school to work.

“My grandmother was the greatest person in my life, but she could not vote in our state until her end of the 1930s. Her third child, my mother, only went to school with white children until she was in the high school in the high school in 1969.

Six months later, Mississippi voted to remove the children's show from televisions across the state. The reason for the New York Times was “some of the members of the Commission were very against showing the series because they used a highly integrated occupation of children,” said Laymon.

Twenty -two days later, his grandmother, with others, publicly questioned the decision not to radiate Sesame Road. Six years after the show was broadcast, Laymon was born and received the teachings of Sesamestrasse together with those of a “Palestinian, Jewish character in this large old book called Bible called Jesus”.

“'You are the same teaches', they would say,” he said.

“Treat people as we are treated, share, be honest, be friendly, admit, admit and revise the mistakes of others and finally fight against the tyranny with all the necessary means. I was not a great student, but I was a great student of my grandma.”

He said that his grandmother died a few months ago at the age of 95 before experiencing diversity, justice and inclusion of Ban's state ban.

“Our desire to organize yourself, our ability to friendliness and our desire to revise everything we have is the only thing that will save us. It is everything that has ever saved us from tyranny,” said Laymon, asking that graduates issue the love of his grandmother.

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