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Friday, March 23, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 12
Local Grad Student Grabs National Architecture Award By Timothy Gillis YORK Modern architecture is combining with the medical field to help make health facilities more patient-friendly. Alyssa Garvey, a graduate student at Endicott College, is studying interior architecture, but she majored in psychology and art therapy at University of New England as an undergrad. The occupational shift, she said, came from her employment experience at Durgin Pines in Kittery. “While I was a social worker, it gave me an idea about how I can impact these people’s lives in a different way, through design,” said Garvey, who stum-
Left photo: Alyssa Garvey. Right photo: A computer rendering of the winning conceptual installation by Alyssa Garvey (photo by Katie Boone:ceremony.photography)
bled upon Endicott and its opportunities for students without a interior architecture background
or degree. “The deciding factor was I wanted to be involved in health care design.”
Her ideas have made an immediate impact. She was recently announced as the winner
of a national award from the Interior Design Educators Council which wanted designs that empowered users to grow intellectually, spiritually, mentally, or metaphysically. Purposefully broad and open ended, the project program asked entrants to define the specific use of the design and to develop an atmospheric intervention. The purpose could be a religious practice (traditional or emerging), a secular space of reflection or mindfulness, and/or places for public commemoration. Garvey landed first place with a concept that “incorpoSee GARVEY page 14...
Facebook Frenzy: The Dangers of “Liking” STATEWIDE Maine Facebook users were troubled this week at the news that 50 million people had profile data taken and sold and used in the national election. The company’s stock took a dive, and regulators in the US
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and abroad were looking at how to hold the social media giant accountable. News just broke that psychographic profiling firm Cambridge Analytica has been banned from Facebook. The company has been accused of unethically taking information from Facebook users in order to gain insight into voting behavior. The CEO of the company, Alexander Nix, was suspended after being caught in an undercover journalism sting, bragging about influencing the
election and the possible use of “honey pots” to put politicians in compromising situations and make them susceptible to bribery and extortion. As the news continues to unfold about what data was compromised and who is responsible, a tech attorney offers some tips for keeping you and your info safe in the meantime. Marcus Harris, technology attorney for Taft Stettinius & Hollister, says, “Cambridge Analytica acquired information about Facebook users without
going through the appropriate channels. They used this information to not only help to pre-
Sail into Shipyard’s Past KITTERY & WELLS On Wednesday, March 28, South Coast Senior College at York County Community College hosts Portsmouth Naval Shipyard historian and museum director, Joseph Glueckert, for a presentation on the story—past and present—of Kittery’s legendary shipyard. The 10 a.m. lecture is free and open to the public. Generations of southern Maine residents have worked at the shipyard, but few private citizens have been past the gates of the secure facility. Founded
in 1800, PNS has played a vital part in the nation’s defense. From the days of wooden sail-
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard history and museum director Joseph Glueckert shows off one of the museum’s artifacts.
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dict voting behavior, but also to See FACEBOOK page 4... States Navy. Indeed, nearly half of all the submarines launched during WW II were built in Kittery. Glueckert will talk about the shipyard’s role in times of war and peace, present a slideshow of some of the base highlights, and give a peek at some of the amazing treasures stored in the shipyard museum. Glueckert is passionate about preserving and spreading the story of the shipyard. Before being selected as PNS historian and museum director in 2014, a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, he served as historian for the 439 Airlift Wing at Westover Air Reserve Base.
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