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Newspaper Page TextBoard of Regents sets improved green guidelines BY BRIAN MINK The Red & Buck Institutions in the University System of Georgia need to col lect more data on the amount of energy they use and set bench marks for energy conservation, a University-led task force told the Board of Regents on Wednesday. University President Michael Adams, the leader of the task force studying energy, presented the plan on Wednesday to the regents at their monthly meet ing in Atlanta. “I think if the plan is formally Stressed students seek counseling BY MELISSA WEINMAN The Red & Black Many say the college years are the best of your life, but according to psy chologists they can also be some of the hardest. College counseling centers across the coun try have seen the number of students seeking psy chological counseling increase since August, Gayle Robbins, director of Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS), said. The increase is not isolated. The number of students seeking coun seling has increased over the last decade. "Students experience a lot more pressure than they used to, and they realize more that they need to get help when they're feeling distress," Robbins said. There are other fac tors contributing to the increase of students seeking help and the severity of their disor ders, including stress and what’s happening in the news, Robbins said. Following the deaths of 33 students at Virginia Tech in April at the hands of a fellow student, col lege students have become more aware of their own mental health and the health of those |(A PI an') test prep and ixnrLrtry admissions Double your MCAT prep—for freel up to a $1,849 value Not sure which of the 23 MCAT dates is right for you? Enroll in an MCAT course in January and prepare for any 2008 test date. You'll have unlimited access to online resources and can take a second course— FßEE!' 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Maaicn ma Unbad Kingdam and Pranaa AUMIbbIUNb adopted by the board, there is so much data that will be reported and there will be transparency in the system," said Tom Adams, a member of the task force and a member of the University’s engi neering outreach faculty. “The natural way we do business in the system" will force improvement, he said. The report, Tom Adams said, is comprehensive. It gives specific dollar amounts that the institu tions expect improving energy conservation to cost. “It was thought that in order to be sustainable it would be around them, she said. "Awareness was raised subsequent to Virginia Tech,” Robbins said. “When so many tragic events happen in such a short amount of time it can tip the scales.” After the shootings, the Evaluation of Psychological Services Protocol Committee formed to look at the mental wellness of the University community. A need for more psy chologists was among the concerns outlined in the committee’s report. The University has a ratio of one psychologist to every 3000 students, but the International Association of Counseling Services suggests one psychologist for every 1000 to 1500 students. Another reason stu dents seek counseling is due to trouble adjusting to life away from home. "They’re just begin ning life as an adult and lost that support system at home," said Amy Todey, a therapist at the Center for Counseling and Personal Evaluation. Robbins said students often do not have meth ods to cope with stress. “We’ve got individuals that have a lot more pres sure but not a lot of tools that can develop into anxiety or depression.” very expensive for the campuses, but the opposite was shown to be true,” he said. "It’s a real win win for everybody." Tbm Adams said the strength of the report’s recommendations lies in anew level of oversight, including a committee on energy conservation and an energy con servation coordinator for each school. Many colleges and universi ties already practice environ mental sustainability, he said, and ideas from the eight schools on the task force contributed to the report’s suggestions. Three dean finalists to visit Univ. campus BY JOANN ANDERSON The Red & Black Three finalists are in the final phase of the selection process for the dean of the University’s College of Environment and Design. The finalists, announced Monday by Provost Arnett Mace in a news release, were chosen from a nation al search. The new dean will succeed John F. Crowley, who stepped down in 2006. The finalists for the posi tion are Brian Orland, Dan Nadenicek and Scott VS > ‘■l SARA GUEVARA Txr Km . Bu< A Pulitzer Prize win ner Natasha Trethewey, a University alumna, reads from her book “Native Guard” on Wednesday in the Student Learning Center. NEWS Weinberg, and they will be on campus this month to meet with students, faculty and administrators, accord ing to the release. A search committee met in December and January to discuss finalists and gave a list of recommended finalists to the Provost, said Garnett Stokes, chair of the search committee. Nadenicek is the chair of the department of plan ning and landscape archi tecture at Clemson University. He is also the director of Healthy Communities and Historic POET: Past reflections inspire poems ► From Page 1A and welcomed her back to Athens, a place she said “meant a lot to me during my development as a poet.” The first poem Trethewey read was "Native Guard," the title poem of her Pulitzer Prize winning collection. The poem is a series of journal entries written by one of Louisiana's Native Guard, the first officially-sanc tioned black regiment of the Union Army. Though the character of this poem is fictional, the historical events he writes of, Trethewey made clear, are real. 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"We’ve really been doing a lot with energy for the last 10 years or so,” Crowe said. “It’s pretty telling that energy use on a square foot basis has really declined over the last 15 years or so.” The task force began in December 2006 and completed the report in April 2007, Tom Adams said. Preservation in Clemson’s Restoration Institute and was previously on the land scape architecture faculty at Penn State University, according to the release. Orland is the head of Penn State University's department of landscape architecture. He was an associate director at the University of Illinois’ Environmental Council and founder of the Imaging Systems Laboratory, according to the release. Weinberg has served as interim dean of the College of Environment aqd Design freshman was one of her first inspirations. “I became very fascinat ed with the intersection of our public and private his tories,” she said. Trethewey’s lyrical abil ity and passion for the past generates a hybrid of art and historical fact. After finishing her first poem, she said, “In a way, this book is also about my relationship with myself." "Theories of Time and Space,” her second poem, discusses her birthplace of Gulfport, Miss., and her return home. Many of the remaining selections focused on Trethewey’s childhood in Mississippi. In “Miscegenation,” THURSDAY 1/17 FRIDAY 1/18 SATBRDAYI/19 BUNG THE CHILDREN CD Re,ease fan/ DARK MEAT ° Dini/unur " PACKAWAY FOLKLORE. 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The regents also approved six new professorships at the University, which will be funded by private donations. since September 2006. Weinberg has been on the faculty of the School of Environmental Design since 1982 and was direc tor of the school and asso ciate dean of the college. Each candidate will spend two days meeting with faculty, students and University administrators, Stokes said. A meeting for students, faculty and alumni will be held for each finalist. The final decision will be made after the inter views. The dean will start July 1. Trethewey reflects on her birth and how, in 1965, her black mother and white father broke two laws in the state of Mississippi simply by conceiving her. She expressed the uncertainty and confusion felt by a biracial child growing up in a place that refused to acknowledge her legitimacy. The impact childhood in the South in the 1960s had on Trethewey was a consistent theme through her final readings, and the epitaph of her last poem was revealing. She read words written by E.O. Wilson and printed above the beginning of the last poem, “Homo Sapiens is the only species to suffer psychological exile.” dressed con dition 31 America's uncle 34 Scand coun try 37 _ and luck 39 Pose for a portrait 40 Oxygen lubes 41 Carpet fiber 42 NASA’s ISS partner 44 Tally check 46 Mystery writ er Christie 47 "Lord Jim" author 49 Jargon 3A 50 Humiliate 53 M-m-m-m good l 55 Funeral piece 57 Luxurious 60 Granny 61 Exploiter 62 Puts in a hem 64 Lion's name?

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