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Ecology school plans new eco-friendly building
By MARIANNE ENGLISH
The Red & Black
The University’s Odum School
of Ecology faculty is examining
how humans can better interact
with their environment by
designing a sustainable, environ
mentally-proactive facility.
The result? Researching and
proposing the world’s most sus?
tainable teaching and research
laboratory: the Odum School of
Ecology Green Building.
The project, already in its final
conceptual stages, will need the
approval of the University admin
istration and Board of Regents in
the months to follow.
The University and the Dobbs
Foundation based out of
Atlanta helped fund the con
ceptual designs for the new
building.
The sustainable facility will
promote the - school’s environ
mental consciousness, said
Laurie Fowler, senior public ser
FARM: Facility allows for ‘better experiences’
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Tuesday that “the new
farm design also seeks to
illustrate the college’s envi
ronmental goals through
effective nutrient and
waste management, con
servation of water resourc
es and daylight harvest
ing.”
Double Bridges Farm will
house sheep, beef cattle
and swine.
The swine units will use
group sow housing, which
is viewed by many animal
welfare groups as more
“animal friendly,” Dove
said.
Group sow housing is
less confining than the
existing pens, Dove said,
and keeps up with a legis
lature trend that requires
such housing.
Stewart said the beef
and sheep operations will
be on a rotating pasture
system.
Since Double Bridges
was funded by bond sales
prior to the current finan
cial crunch, University stu
dents will not see any addi
tional tuition or fee chang
es.
“We pledged not to go
PRESIDENT:
Students
plan for
‘historic
moment’
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Other campus locations
that have been designated
as viewing locations
include the Chapel, the
Fine Arts Balcony Theater
and Tate
Student
Center.
The
Young
Democrats
are sched
uled to be
outside of
the Tate
Center
spreading
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the word
about their organization
and where students can
watch the inauguration
ceremony.
The College Republicans
are playing it cool.
“Of course we’re excited
for President-elect
Obama,” said Greg Wilson,
president of College
Republicans. “It’s a pretty
historic event. Obviously
we would have liked for it
to go a different way, but
you still have to support
and respect the presi
dent.”
One University group’s
initial plans to visit the
inauguration recently fell
through.
“We were staying with a
church in D.C., but they
had some conflicts,” said
Corey Johnson, president
of the University chapter
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Despite the setback,
morale remains high
among members of the
group, many of whom are
planning to watch the
inauguration from cam
pus.
“Basically it’s a truly
historic moment,” Johnson
said. “[Obama] came from
nothing and became presi
dent. It shows that any
thing can happen.”
vice associate at the school of
ecology. Fowler is involved in the
project and serves on the school’s
Green Building committee.
“The sharpest students look
for environmen
tally-friendly uni
versities and we
want to attract
those students,”
Fowler said. “We
want to showcase
our environmen
tal awareness and
new types of sus
tainable technol
ogy not only to
professionals, but
to students and members of the
community.”
In the conceptual designs,
Fowler said the project would
use recycled or locally-sourced
building materials, function on a
carbon-neutral basis and recycle
100 percent of its natural waste.
Various species of vegetation will
live inside the building and cover
Courtesy University Architects
back to the [Georgia
General Assembly] legisla
ture for more money,”
Stewart said, and the
Double Bridges committee
worked the past year “to
design, redesign and rede
sign to get within budget
limitations.”
Dove said the economic
status may benefit the
project because construc
tion costs have dropped
since the initial estimates.
CANCER: Gym Dogs raise awareness
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why every NCAA gymnas
tics team has a version of
a “Think Pink” meet to
raise money to fight the
disease each season.
“When I got sick
Suzanne wanted to help
me, of course, but she real
ized that it was an impor
tant cause. It’s pretty neat
to see how much it’s
grown,” said Vexler, now
an assistant gymnastics
coach at lowa. “Every col
legiate gymnastics team
does one throughout the
country, so it’s very nice to
see that something really
wonderful can come out of
something really awful.”
The stiletto race is not
anew concept they’ve
taken place everywhere
from Central Park to
Australia —but it’s a novel
idea in Athens.
Teams of four, spon
sored by a number of other
Georgia coaches and
administrators or just the
average layperson, raised
SSOO apiece to be able to
race across the floor of
Stegeman Coliseum.
With Yoculan notorious
for roaming around the
blue mats in high heels, a
relay with racers donning
fashionable footwear
seemed like a natural, if
not uncomfortable, fit.
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the outer walls and roof, hope
fully attracting small wildlife,
Fowler said.
The building will also house a
“living machine” —a bioremedia
tion system that treats and recy
cles waste water naturally.
The purification process would
occur in a greenhouse-like room
where a diversity of plants, bac
teria, algae, plankton and fish
would recycle the building’s sew
age and greywater, which would
be reused in the labs, restrooms
and irrigation systems.
James McKenzie, a junior
ecology major from Cartersville,
said in a telephone interview
Wednesday that he has helped
with the project and traveled out
of state to attend architectural
design seminars for the new
building.
He said he visited a “living
machine” at the Missouri
Department of Conservation in
Kansas City that was still using
the same water bought four years
FOWLER
Though students and
faculty wifi have a greater
distance to travel to the
new facility, Bertrand said
distance will hardly be a
drawback compared to the
opportunities that Double
Bridges will provide, includ
ing “better extension and
teaching programs that
allow students to have bet
ter experiences in lab.”
Research possibilities,
predominantly with swine,
“Athens Regional came
up with the idea and said,
‘You know, Suzanne, this
is right up your alley,”’
Yoculan said.
“Through the last 25
years [my heels] have
actually gotten a little
shorter. They’re not really
stilettos anymore. Stilettos
are skinny high heels and I
seem to wear fat low ones
now.”
The Gym Dogs, not
allowed to sprint across
the floor wearing high
heels for obvious reasons,
also raised at least S3OO
apiece to sponsor a runner
for themselves in a sepa
rate race.
“There’s times when it
seems like we’re just here
for our gymnastics and
ourselves, and we’re not,”
said senior Gym Dog
Courtney Kupets, who will
have Dr. Laura Jolly, the
dean of the University’s
College of Family and
Consumer Sciences, run
for her.
“We want to do this for
other people too.”
Over the years, Georgia
gymnastics has helped
raise $120,646.69 for the
Athens Regional Medical
Center Breast Health
Center, according to Mike
Pilcher, the Associate
Director of Corporate
Communication for the
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will be improved by includ
ing resources to collabo
rate with the Medical
College of Georgia branch
in Athens, Stewart said,
and added, “Pigs are the
best model to study
humans.”
“We are going to have a
model farm for teaching
and student interaction
within a minimum driving
distance from campus,”
Stewart said.
hospital.
That figure, which
doesn’t include money
raised this year, has gone
toward new technology
and facilities, Pilcher said,
and has helped make the
Athens. Breast Health
Center state-of-the-art.
It was recognized by
medical publication
Imaging and Technology
News as one of the nation’s
five “Most Influential
Women’s Centers of 2008.”
“You think of an athlete
of [Vexler’s] magnitude
and just how unlikely that
is, I think it just goes to
show that nobody’s really
safe from it,” Pilcher said.
“It doesn’t matter who you
are, or what you do or
what kind of shape you’re
in. If you have breast can
cer, you have breast can
cer. From that tragic news
came [our] partnership.”
Fifty-plus cancer survi
vors from the Athens area
will be in the stands as
honorary guests for
Monday’s Pink Out meet
with Utah, serving as a
reminder of things beyond
the walls of Stegeman.
“There’s other things
more important in life
than sports, and athletes
need to know that and so
do fans,” Yoculan said.
“This is our way of getting
that message across.”
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earlier. McKenzie said because of
the “living machine,” the facility
did not have to pay a water bill.
Evaporation wasn’t a problem
because the facility collected
rainwater from the roof to keep
water levels stable, McKenzie
said.
Additionally, the ecology
school’s Green Building will use
virtually no electricity for light
ing. Instead, numerous transpar
ent glass walls and ceilings will
provide natural lighting during
the daytime when the lab would
be used most, Fowler skid.
“Most importantly, the project
will provide restoration and more
habitat space on campus in the
areas surrounding the building,”
she said.
The building would be con
structed on the allotted land
where the Odum School of
Ecology currently resides if it
gains approval. Fowler said the
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King remembered
in historic week
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For The Red & Black
Dawn Bennett-
Alexander was 12 years
old when she heard Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
famous “I Have a Dream”
speech in the shadow of
the Lincoln Memorial on
August 28, 1963.
Forty-six years later,
the associate professor of
employment law and legal
studies is continuing the
fight for equality.
She has written count
less books and articles on
the subject of equal
rights.
In 1964, King was
awarded a Nobel Peace
Prize for his non-violent
work in the civil rights
movement, becoming the
youngest person ever to
receive the honor.
King donated his prize
money of $54,123 to fur
ther the civil rights move
ment.
“It gave a type of legit
imacy to what he had
accomplished, that was
simply beyond words ...
that those pushing for
such rights and willing to
put their lives on
the line to make it
happen did not do
so in vain,”
Bennett-
Alexander said.
In his Nobel
Prize acceptance
speech, King spoke
of his “faith in the
future of mankind.”
For some, King’s
“faith” and “dream”
will be realized when
President-elect Barack
Obama is sworn in as the
nation’s 44th president
on Tuesday.
“I think it is very sig
nificant and meaningful
that Obama’s Presidential
Inauguration will take
place at the Washington
Monument, the place
where King gave his most
famous speech 45 years
ago,” said Shirin
Modaresi, a veterinary
student from Rock Hill,
S.C.
All around the nation,
Martin Luther King Jr.
Day is a day of service.
Obama issued a state
ment Wednesday encour
aging Americans to get
involved.
“And to honor the leg
acy of a man who lived
his life as a servant to
others, I will ask all
Americans to make a
renewed commitment to
serving their communi
ties and their country,”
Obama said.
Around Athens, there
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Architects was selected for the
Green Building.
She said the project would
also help to retain and unite
Odum’s dispersed faculty that
conduct research in various loca
tions on and off campus because
of various resource and space
issues.
McKenzie said overall, the
facility’s designers hope the proj
ect will be representative of a
healthy virus spreading eco
consciousness and green think
ing to surrounding University
buildings.
“Hopefully, we will incorporate
these methods to all new build
ings constructed on campus in
the future,” he said.
The Green Building
Committee will present its final
conceptual designs for the build
ing Jan. 21. Anyone is encour
aged to show their support for
the facility at 3 p.m. in room 201
of the ecology building auditori
um.
are events planned for
King’s legacy from a
breakfast, to community
service and even a ball.
Today, the University
will host its sixth annual
Freedom Breakfast,
where awards will be pre
sented to four individuals
who have worked to build
understanding among
people.
The sold-out event
features civil rights activ
ist and Georgia
Congressman John Lewis
as the keynote speaker,
and those who wish to
view the event can stream
it live on the University’s
Web site.
“We have always cele
brated Dr. King’s place in
history at the University
of Georgia ,” said Vanessa
Smith, director for pro
grams and outreach in
the Office of Institutional
Diversity.
Smith said the office
started the breakfast six
years ago to honor King’s
legacy and those working
to better their communi
ties.
On Jan. 24, in honor of
King’s dream for unity,
many diverse cultures
and backgrounds on cam
pus that it’s so easy to
fasten to your own cul
ture,” said Isis Men-Nefer,
vice president of the
Black Affairs Council.
“So the Unity Ball is a
chance to meet people
that you may not normal
ly interact with. We’re
able to see Dr. King’s
dream manifest with the
election of our nation’s
first black president, and
it’s an opportunity to cel
ebrate them both and
recognize all leaders who
make a difference in the
community.”
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