YEC sees its first class of graduates


May 18, 2008 at 9:24p.m.

By Ed Runyan

YOUNGSTOWN — Dr. David Sweet, president of Youngstown State University, told the first 40 graduates of Youngstown Early College on Sunday that their complex journey through four years of an innovative high school/college education revealed characteristics similar to an animal dear to his heart: the penguin.

The movie “The March of the Penguins,” which followed a group of 7,000 Emperor penguins in the Antarctic, demonstrated that the animals can endure 80 below-zero temperatures, dive 1,700 feet below the water’s surface, hold their breath for 15 minutes and travel long distances.

But the Early College students, whose mascot is the penguin just like YSU, have shown similar characteristics, said the YSU president.

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