{"id":66486,"date":"2008-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-student-commencement-speaker-turns-initial-anxiety-into-accomplishment\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-student-commencement-speaker-turns-initial-anxiety-into-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/04\/uri-student-commencement-speaker-turns-initial-anxiety-into-accomplishment\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student commencement speaker turns initial anxiety into accomplishment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 29, 2008 \u2014 When Gabriel \u201cGabe\u201d Mancuso and his parents drove from their Edison, N.J. home to the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s campus for the first time, Gabe wondered if 溏心vlog免费B站 was the right place for him. He remembered looking out the car window during the last 10-mile stretch on Route 138 to campus and was hesitant, seeing only farms and cows.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe\u2019s grateful he decided to stay in a rural setting. \u201c溏心vlog免费B站 has a beautiful campus, its close to the beaches, and is close to home,\u201d he says, sounding like he\u2019s majored in marketing instead of political science and economics.<\/p>\n


\n\tSelected as this year\u2019s student commencement speaker, he\u2019ll get a chance to share his enthusiasm during the University\u2019s Undergraduate Commencement exercises, Sunday, May 18.<\/p>\n


\n\tMancuso was a founding member and the outgoing president of the Pre-Law Society. He helped develop a volunteer peer tutoring program in conjunction with 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Academic Enhancement Center, a service previously unavailable in some political science courses. He also organized and helped moderate the first debate between College Democrats and College Republicans. \t<\/p>\n


\n\tActive in the Student Senate, he chaired the bylaws committee, was vice-chair of the finance committee, an elected member of the rules and ethics committee, and served as liaison to the Faculty Senate where he ensured that the student body\u2019s interests were represented during Faculty Senate meetings.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe was also a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and an Interfraternity Council representative. He helped developed a recruitment strategy, which attracted the largest class of new members for any Phi Kappa Psi chapter nationwide in 2004.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe ran for president of the Student Senate and lost. \u201cI was beaten by a friend so it was bittersweet,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Gabe chose political science as a major after taking an introductory class, where he learned to take a point and prove it logically with research and good writing skills. He added an economics major because he says once you \u201cget it\u201d you can apply economics to everything. <\/p>\n


\n\tHis majors and his work in student groups will help him toward his eventual goal: law school. When asked if he has plans to run for public office he says with a half grin, \u201ceventually, after I pay off my student loans.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\n溏心vlog免费B站 student commencement speaker,

\nGabriel Mancuso, form Edison, N.J.

\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications & Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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