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Symposium aims to educate and activate Sustainable City from page 1 a more environmentally conscious city, according to Treanor. “I’d really encourage students to attend the academic paper [presentations] on Friday,” he said. “They don’t have the handson appeal of a trip to the Ballona Wetlands, but they are key to the mission of what happens at a university – intellectual inquiry about what things mean.” Treanor also feels the symposium’s keynote address delivered by Carter
For the Record
Correction: In the April 11 article “Centennial festivities to begin at end of month,” it was stated that the 1911 Ball will be held on Nov. 1, 2011 when, in fact, it will be held on Nov. 11, 2011.
Emergency Medical Services to host info session for perspective EMTs The last info session on how to become an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) will be held by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) today at Convo in Seaver 100. EMS will be giving out information regarding the program and the certification process.
will contribute to students’ understanding of the relationship between their traditional concept of the environment and the urban setting in which they live. “It’s easy for people to think of the environment as a place out there away from the city, not somewhere in the city,” he said. “We wanted to highlight the falsehood of that dichotomy.” Carter, who created the Sustainable South Bronx (a nonprofit that focuses on community involvement in the revitalization of the South Bronx’s local environment), will be speaking tonight at 7:30 p.m.
in Hilton 100. ASLMU’s current Director of Environmental Responsibility and 2011-12 ASLMU Vice President, Kim Tomicich, a junior environmental studies major, is very excited for Carter’s keynote address. “She speaks so passionately,” Tomicich said. “She started a nonprofit, and that [is] what I want to do with my life, so I’m very excited to hear her speak.” Senior political science and economics double major Greer Gosnell is also looking forward to tonight’s speaker. “Carter truly embodies the spirit of
social justice and has made incredible strides for low-income communities in the Bronx,” said Gosnell. “Everyone should watch her talk … to get inspired.” Tomicich thinks the symposium marks an exciting new step in University programming. “It’s the first interdisciplinary forum taking place at LMU. [Plus,] it’s on a topic that’s really relevant to us right now as we face ecological disasters,” Tomicich said. “It’s something that can empower us to make changes needed to have a more sustainable lifestyle in our cities.” “This symposium has the
potential to be life-changing for students,” said Gosnell. Treanor echoes Gosnell and Tomicich’s sentiments, saying the symposium was intended to get students thinking about environmental issues on an intellectual level and working to solve them in a hands-on way. “Theory without action is impotent [but] action without understanding theory first is blind,” he said. “Before we can transform our cities we have to think about what it is we’re going to do. [We have to] theorize, dream and imagine what kind of city we want.”