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Group mentors new students
By KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
Freshman year can be a diffi
cult time of adjustment for some
students,' but anew group on
campus is hoping to make the
transition firom high school to col
lege a little easier.
Freshman Connection, an orga
nization that will pair incoming
freshmen with student mentors, is
beginning its mentorship program
with the freshman class admitted
for spring semester 2011.
Freshman participation is vol
untary and will be free of charge
for those involved.
Daryan Rahimzadeh. a junior
from Grayson, is the founder and
executive director of Freshman
Connection.
Rahimzadeh said he got the
idea for a mentorship program for
freshmen by hearing about similar
programs on campus, such as the
Honors Program faculty mentor
ship and the big brother tradition
in fraternities.
“I was thinking of ways to kind
of connect campus, and I do a lot
of work with first-years, so natu
rally that’s where my mind went,”
he said.
Rahimzadeh said the organiza
tion is aiming for 60 incoming
freshmen to participate in the
program this spring, and as many
as 300 to 500 next fall.
He said he thinks the organiza
tion will be especially useful for
freshmen who enter the University
in the spring because they miss
opportunities such as Dawg Camp
and freshman activities that occur
in the fall or in the summer before
the fall semester.
‘‘Even if they come in and they
dive headfirst, they’re still so far
Student teams with fraternity
to trade metal cans for cash
By SARAH GIARRATANA
The Red & Black
If you’re looking for
someone who has made it a
personal goal to benefit the
environment, just ask to
see the aluminum can-filled
trunk and backseat of
Jennifer Meyer’s Honda
Civic.
University student
Meyer of Buford collects
cans, but not just off the
sidewalk or in her own
apartment. She’s starting
to collect cans from frater
nity houses.
Once a week, Meyer
picks up discarded cans
from the Delta Sigma Phi
house and takes them to
the recycling plant, where
they are weighed and pro
cessed.
She picks up money for
the cans and takes the
money back to the fraterni
ty free of charge.
“I walked into the Delta
Sig house one day, looking
for can tops to collect for
charity and there were cans
all over the place,” Meyer
said. “So I asked where the
recycling bin was, so I could
clean them up, and they
told me that there wasn't
one. I freaked out and the
next day I suggested that
they recycle the cans for
money.”
The first time she picked
up cans, she gathered near
ly two large garbage bags of
aluminum, Meyer said.
"Jennifer’s awesome. We
love her because she recy
cles our cans,” said
Benjamin Foster, Delta
Sigma Phi member. “We
tend to use a lot of cans, so
recycling is a good way to
make money and to help
save the environment.”
Delta Sigma Phi plans to
use the money they earn
from recycling to do repairs
and maintenance on their
house, Foster said.
Meyer uses recycling
bins and collection loca
tions provided by Athens-
Clarke County.
According to the Athens-
Clarke County Solid Waste
Department, the county
provides 10 recycling cen
ter locations, including
drop-off centers close to
the University in Five
Points and at 1059 Baxter
St. near George Gibson’s
Men’s Wear.
Meyer said Athens-
Clarke County and the
University have made recy
cle easy.
"They make it accessible
and easy to recycle, so why
not?,” she said.
Meyer hopes to expand
her self-run recycling ser
vice to more fraternities
and sororities, as well as
recruiting more volunteers.
“I would love to get more
fraternities involved it’s
just a matter of making
connections,” Meyer said.
"I would love if anyone’s
interested to contact me.”
Meyer and Foster
encourage other fratemi-
FRESHMAN CONNECTION
Whst: Freshman Connection accept
ing mentor applications for spring 2011
Where: The Freshman Connection
Applications event page on Facebook
When: Now until Friday at 5 p.m.
Who: Students in their second
semester and above
behind,” he said. “We really just
want to create those relationships
and let them know about leader
ship opportunities, and also catch
them up with the rest of the fresh
man class.”
Students who are accepted as
mentors for Freshman Connection
will attend three training events
in November.
They will also participate in
events in January to meet and get
matched with the participating
freshmen.
After that, Rahimzadeh said
there will be four events mentors
and first-years will attend in the
spring to learn about service
opportunities, social activities and
diversity on campus.
Mentors are also required to
meet once a week with their first
year student.
These meetings are comprised
of whatever the mentor and first
year student want to do.
They could volunteer for ser
vice activity together, meet up to
watch a sporting event or eat
lunch or dinner at a restaurant to
give the freshman a break from
the dining halls, Rahimzadeh
said.
Robert Knotts, a sophomore
from Douglasville, is director of
first-year recruitment for
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▲ University student Jennifer Meyer of Buford
collects and recycles cans from the Delta Sigma
Phi fraternity house to help the environment.
ties and other students to
check out locations where
they can recycle their waste
if they are not recycling in
their houses already.
“I like to think other fra
ternities recycle, but I really
don’t know,” Foster said,
“It’s an easy way to make a
few bucks and if more peo
ple could learn where to
take their recycling, they
would go.”
If students are unable to
take their own recycling
or just wish to get involved
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Freshman Connection.
He said the idea for the organi
zation attracted him because it
provided learning opportunities
and new experiences for both
freshmen and the mentors they
are paired with.
“We’re pairing you up with a
first-year, but it’s hot Just that. We
want both of you guys to grow
with the community,” he said.
Knotts said when he was a
freshman, he often relied on
friends who were upperclassmen
he knew from high school when he
had questions about how to get
around and survive at the
University and in Athens.
He said upperclassmen are a
useful resource for freshmen to
find out about opportunities and
activities on campus that they
may not know about.
“About 50 percent of the things
I do on campus are because of
older students who have recom
mended them, and I want to
return that to incoming fresh
men,” he said.
Rahimzadeh said members of
Freshman Connection are plan
ning to speak at orientation in the
spring and fall and work with the
admissions office and Franklin
College advisers to help promote
the program to freshmen.
He said he wants the program
to help freshmen realize they have
a community at the University.
Rahimzadeh also wants fresh
man to come to realize that there
are students who are willing to
help them through their first year,
which is often the toughest year a
student must take on.
“Really, I just want people to
make relationships and realize
that this University isn’t as big as
it seems,” he said.
in a growing project they
should contact Meyer to
find out more information,
she said.
Meyer can be reached
through e-mail at jmey
er6422fagmail.com.
“Delta Sig has really
jumped all over it and they
now have recycling bins
that they provided and they
are actively recycling,”
Meyer said. “My goal is to
recycle. If I can encourage
them, that’s good with
me.”
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