Volume 120 Issue 23 Friday, April 1, 2016
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Little Muskies leave big splash at state championship Chris Morgan Orbit Media Reporter
The John Glenn Little Muskies Boys Basketball team delivered the school’s first state championship on Saturday, March 19 by defeating Akron St. Vincent – St. Mary 76-72 in the Division II State Final. John Glenn alumni watched the team with great pride, including 1999 graduate Aaron Spragg. Spragg emceed both of the pep rallies during the celebrations. “It’s been an amazing feeling,” said Spragg. “As a graduate and being around sports and knowing how hard it is to win a state championship, it definitely means
a lot.” The New Concord community has been celebrating ever since the win, culminating with a village block party, championship parade, and a final pep rally on Wednesday, March 23. Several New Concord businesses set up shop outside their buildings with tables filled with food and games while residents roamed around Main Street surrounded by music as the celebration continued to unfold. The championship parade followed the block party, with the team being driven down the street in front of their fans cheering them on and the parade being broadcast live on WMCO 90.7.
The Little Muskies finished the season at 28-1, winning the state championship game. They were also named the first ranked Division II team in the final Associated Press Poll. The team also averaged 85 points per game during the season, scoring 2,465 total points. Their total points rank third alltime for most team points scored in a season. The first and second ranked schools were Vienna Mathews and Pleasant City. “They were so poised all year,” said Spragg. “Seeing the way they led, and never got rattled and stayed together as a team is what Devan Boyer/ Black & Magenta stands out to me.” The John Glenn Muskies enjoy a pep rally to celebrate their inclusion See LITTLE MUSKIES, in the Ohio State Championship game. Continued on Page 4
Senate Committee looks to expand campus recycling Martin Kurtz Orbit Media Reporter
Brenna Busby/ Black & Magenta The Recycling Program, under the leadership of senior Connor Hann, began in Fall 2015. Each week a different organization is in charge of picking up the recycling from each building. There is no set plan yet for how the smaller bins will be collected from the rooms next year.
Student Senate’s Recycling Committee is making progress toward having recycle bins in every dorm room and on every dorm floor on campus. Senior Director of Facilities and Physical Plant, Kevin Wagner, and Interim Vice President for Advancement, Janet HeeterBass, met with the committee about the possibility of adding garbage can-sized bins to each hallway of every dorm by the end of this semester. The committee hopes to put 28 quart-sized bins to each dorm room this summer. In the meeting with Wagner and Heeter-Bass, the Recycling Committee decided to purchase all of the bins and came up with a money figure. It was also discussed that Muskingum University could buy the bins through
Physical Plant because the cost would be cheaper than the whole retail value. “We haven’t gotten a number with what they [Physical Plant] would be working with or if that number that we had would change,” said Connor Hann, Chair of the Recycling Committee. The Recycling Committee hasn’t heard a response yet from Physical Plant and Administration but expects the bins to be bought soon. Once it is approved by Administration, the Recycling Committee will look for funding, which will likely come from Student Senate money. “We would still have to have that conversation, but I believe that [Senate] is one of the directions that we could take,” said Hann. Hann said that the main goal of the Recycling Committee is to make sure that the Muskingum
community continues to be involved in the effort and to keep it going after he graduates at the end of this semester. Hann also said that he wants to see incoming first year senators get invested in recycling on campus that way recycling can become a permanent part of the campus environment. “I don’t think that we should take this [the bins currently in the lobbies] for granted. I think that’s what happened in the past and people think ‘Oh, there’s bins here now. It’s going to be taken care of but this is something the community needs to stay active in,”’ said Hann. Once this project is completed, the Recycling Committee is looking to extend recycling into the buildings on the Quad and they are also planning on making Recycling Committee a standing committee on Student Senate.