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SPRING 2008
Volume 41, Number 2

Practicing What We Preach

This year’s Commencement theme focused on “Conservation, Adaptation and Sustainability.” But what is Ripon College doing beyond talking the talk? Find out how the Ripon Velorution Project is designed to help curb traffic congestion, fuel consumption and pollution and discover what some Ripon alumni are doing to make the world a greener place.

Thompson: ‘The Health Care System is Broken’

Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson delivered a keynote address and a number of other experts in the field addressed “Health Care Costs, Coverage and Communities” during the third annual Ethical Leadership Conference in April.

These Days at Ripon

 

 

Bikes just like these — 160 of them — will be all over campus this fall as part of the Ripon Velorution Project. An incoming first-year student must pledge to not bring a car to campus in order to receive a bike. As long as the student honors that pledge, the bike is his or hers to keep.