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#GlobalPOV Course Instructors Gather, Bono Crashes Party

Blum Center
December 7, 2012
1 min

To celebrate the end of an extremely experimental stressful successful semester, the “Global Poverty” course graduate student instructors (all 482 of them) and the #GlobalPOV team came together to eat, drink and be merry. But then Bono showed up, per usual, and Prof. Roy promptly kicked all of us out of the house so the two of them could be alone, per usual. Some party.

A group of smiling people standing closely together in an indoor setting, posing for a group photo.

(And yes, bunny ears are still socially acceptable at academic functions. Just to clarify.)

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