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May 26, 2006

Brown taps into clean energy to light graduation dance

PROVIDENCE -- Tonight's campus dance for graduating seniors from Brown University will be powered by renewable energy -- a first for the annual campus event.

Student organizer and graduating senior Noam Ross says student activists and alumni members have raised at least 750 dollars to pay for 25 megawatt hours of electricity that would be consumed tonight.

The money would pay for the extra cost currently generated by renewable energy facilities, such as solar power plants. Ross says buying such credits help development of renewable energy in the region.

The annual dance is part of Brown's commencement events. About 6,000 students will graduate on Sunday. School officials say the dance, which lights up the campus with more than 600 lanterns, attracts more than 11,000 people.

Can't attend the graduation? Brown will Webcast the ceremonies, between 12:10 and 2:10 p.m.

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-- The Associated Press

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