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Thursdav, September a, 2010 | The Red a Black
Green fee advances eco-friendly goals
By ALISON LOUGHMAN
The Red & Blac k
When students paid
their student accounts
balance for the fall semes
ter, they might have
noticed anew fee with a
minor cost that will make
big changes across the
University campus.
This $3 “Green Fee" will
cover two-thirds of the
budget for the Office of
Sustainability, a small
office of the Physical Plant
that was created just last
February.
The Office of
Sustainability already
launched a number of pilot
programs this summer to
test new eco-friendly ini
tiatives. including a suc
cessful food waste com
posting program at the
East Campus Village din
ing hall. If this success
proves lasting, the pro
gram will most likely be
expanded to other dining
halls.
Jeanne Fry, director of
Food Services for the
University, said because
the program partnered
with the Office of
Sustainability and
launched on June 1 there
has yet to be much feed
back, but Food Services
lists its other numerous
eco-friendly initiatives on
its official website.
"We’ve been recycling
since the 19705,” Fry said.
“So we've been green long
before most people around
here were green.”
Mindset list aims to bridge age gap on campuses
By BRIANA GERDEMAN
The Red & Black
If you check time on your cell
phone instead of a watch, drive a
Korean car, watch the Syfy
Channel or prefer a caramel mac
chiato to plain coffee, you’re a
sign of the times.
So says the Beloit College
Mindset List, released every
August since 1998. The list gives
an overview of cultural references
and norms for the entering fresh
man class, which Beloit defines as
18-year-olds.
The mindset list was originally
intended as a reminder to Beloit
faculty to be aware of dated cul
tural references. Today, it’s con
sidered a broader look at the
world view of each generation.
At the University, some profes
sors have made an effort to reduce
the cultural gap between genera
tions, but it hasn’t disappeared
entirely.
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SUSTAINABILITY
COFFEE HOUR
When: Today 11 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.
Where: Jittery Joe’s in frie
Miller Learning Center
More Information: Stop by to
ask questions and share your
ideas with the Office of
Sustanability
Other initiatives from
the Office of Sustainability
include anew emphasis on
recycling to up the total
percentage of University
recycling, which already
takes care of nearly 50 per
cent of the University’s
waste. The office has
added recycle bins placed
in tandem with the trash
cans in the landscaping
around campus. It is also
working with the Athletic
Association to promote in
stadium recycling, with
volunteer crews to look for
recyclable waste in game
day cleanup.
“The possibilities are
endless,” said Sheena
Zhang, a senior from
Athens studying ecology,
biology and sustainable
design as well as a mem
ber of the Go Green
Alliance. She also said a
bike share program might
be in the works to enable
students to rent bikes to
zip across campus.
Yet the green fee was
only implemented due to
the hard work of students,
especially the Go Green
era and students, just like there’s
going to be between any adult
and young adult,” said David
Smilde, an associate professor of
sociology.
But, he said, sociologists real
ize a gap between age groups is
normal, so “we tend to take [the
list) with a grain of salt.”
He said much of the gap can
been seen in the “idioculture”
the idiomatic phrases and new
words that differ between genera
tions.
Also, some classes are more
prone to a culture gap than oth
ers. For example, Smilde said the
material in history, chemistry and
biology classes doesn’t change
much, but for his Sociology of
Culture class, he has to revise his
lectures to stay current.
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two to three years, but then I
have to change the references, or
students won’t even know what
I’m talking about,” he said.
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▲ One of the proposed initiatives for the ‘green fee’ is a bike share
program that would allow students to rent bikes on campus. Initiatives
for the fall include gameday recycling and a sustainability coffee hour.
Alliance, said Kevin
Kirache, director of the
Office of Sustainability. The
alliance modeled the fee
after a similar program at
the University of California
at Berkeley. After getting
1,000 signatures on a peti
tion, the student group saw
their plan pass overwhelm
ingly by an SGA vote. The
fee was approved by
President Michael Adams
in January.
Zhang said the fee has
streamlined the
University’s move toward
sustainable living.
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NEWS
Office of Sustainability
makes any kind of efforts
to go green on the campus
so much easier because we
have one contact that we
can talk to, and also talk
through to talk to the
administration,” she said.
Kirsche said that
despite an overall increase
in student fees this semes
ter, the green fee was
designed to be reasonable
to students.
“It’s palatable,” Kirsche
said. “It's a cup of coffee.
It’s a gallon of gas.”
For students, however,
the benefits of a green fee
HIGHLIGHTS FROM
THE MINDSET LIST
1) Few in the class know how to write
in cursive.
15) Colorful lapel ribbons have always
been worn to indicate support for a
cause.
18) Fergie is a pop singer, not a
princess.
27) Computers have never lacked a
CD-ROM disk drive
32) Czechoslovakia has never existed.
46) Nirvana is on the classic oldies
station
and literature, has his own
approach to keeping up with stu
dents’ cultural references. He asks
students to write down their
favorite music, movies and books
and turn it in. His children also
help keep him up to speed.
“Partly it’s self protection," he
said. “Time passes very quickly
for me. What seems like current
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and the Office of
Sustainability can be more
directly accessed —a
chunk of the ftinds go
toward student intern
ships in the office and
grants for student, faculty
and staff proposals.
“If you have ideas for
things you’re particularly
passionate about, submit
a proposal to implement it
on campus," Kirsche said.
“Even outside of the for
mal proposal process, send
us e-mails ... We would
absolutely love to hear stu
dents’ perspectives in the
area of sustainability.”
music to me might be three years
out, and that's an eon.”
In the subjects he teaches, pop
culture isn’t too relevant, so if he
makes any cultural references,
they’re “just asides,” he said.
Still, mentioning musicians
such as Ray LaMontagne and
Sufjan Stevens helps him to iden
tify with students, and he eqjoys
being exposed to new artists and
authors.
Although the mindset list is
intended to make professors
aware of dated references, Evans
said that’s already easy to do as a
professor.
“By virtue of the fact that we
live in this community and com
municate daily with people of this
demographic, it keeps me from
getting old,” he said. “I don’t plan
to ever become old.”
And where has he found the
fountain of youth?
It’s in his students.
“The vitality of young people is
essential to keeping old people
from getting old,” he said.
VOTE Site
provides
election
resource
► From Pag* 1
meeting, Brian Kemp,
Georgia's incumbent secre
tary of state, spoke to a full
room of College
Republicans members
about the upcoming secre
tary of state election. He
said the voting process is
much easier than it was in
the past. He put key infor
mation for voters online.
My Voter Page allows
voters to look up their poll
ing office, view elected rep
resentatives, or, if need be,
to request an absentee bal
lot.
“This is really important,
especially for the November
elections, because you are
going to have a lot of judi
cial races on there that
nobody knows a thing
about,” Kemp said. “It
gives the candidates names
so you can do a little
research on them.”
The MVP site also lists
the five constitutional
amendments that will be
on the ballot in November.
Kemp also discussed the
new federally approved
voter verification system in
Georgia. He said individu
als are cross-referenced
through the social security
administration or the
department of driver’s ser
vices to verify their identity
in the voting system.
“Being able to verify and
know who someone is,
where they live, we know
they are a citizen of this
state and country, I think
its a great victory,” Kemp
said.
CRIME
NOTEBOOK
Kmart shoplifters arrested
Everyone knows Kmart
is the No. 1 place to find
fashionable clothing. But if
you’re not willing to pay
the high price tag, you’re
better off not even walking
in the doors:
University students
Rebecca Danielle
Harrison, 20, and TYiylor
Wilkins, 20, were arrested
and charged with theft by
shoplifting on Aug. 31.
According to the
Athens-Clarke County
Police report, the students
attempted to leave Kmart
with pieces of assorted
clothing valued at $64.95.
Underage possession
Clayton Street is not
the best place to stop and
ask friends if they think
your fake ID might work.
University students
Kerry Churchill Hennessy,
18, and Kathleen Mercer
Congleton. 20, were arrest
ed and charged with
underage possession of
alcohol, after an officer
saw Hennessy “staring at a
Texas license and compar
ing it to herself,” according
to the police report.
Both girls told the offi
cer they had only had two
drinks that evening.
Congleton registered a .169
BAC. Hennessy refused to
blow in the Alco-Sensor.
Both students were
transported to Clarke
County Jail.
Compiled by
Jacob Demmitt
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