Technician
friday october
28 2011
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Sustainability Office introduces conservation tool Tool is part of larger campaign to reduce campus energy consumption by 5 percent. Joshua Chappell Senior Staff Writer
The University Sustainability Office introduced a new tool that allows students to see exactly what is using energy in various settings around campus, including residence halls, offices, classrooms, kitchens and laboratories. Through this tool, students can manipulate 360-degree virtual rooms to determine the energy consumption of various appliances and other devices. The web-based tool is designed to contribute to the Change Your State campaign, according to David Dean, outreach and communications coordinator for the University Sustainability Office. “Change Your State is a behavior
change campaign to educate the community on how to lead a more sustainable lifestyle,” Dean said. “The current goal of Change Your State is a 5 percent reduction in energy for N.C. State, which would equal roughly $1 million.” According to Tracy Dixon, director of the University Sustainability Office, the idea for this campaign was spawned from students in a class in the Poole College of Management. “Lynn Ellis in the [Poole] College of Management taught a creativity class, and we told her class that we want to have a behavior change campaign class that is interesting and effective and asked what we should do,” Dixon said. “The class presented ideas to us and from that we formed the Change Your State Campaign.” According to Dean, the specific idea for the virtual room tool came from a similar function of Arizona State University’s Campus Metabolism web portal. The tool was developed by Spring-
leaf Strategies, a marketing and sus- in North Carolina, according to tainability-consulting firm based in Dixon, is part of the Association for Raleigh, according to Dean. He said the Advancement of Sustainability the project cost came out to just un- in Higher Education. According to their website, there are 19 North der $9,000. Dean said the potential payoffs Carolina colleges and universities in this association, of this project including UNCwould be benC h ap el H i l l, eficial for the Duke University University. and Wake Forest “If we spend University. less money on D i xon s a id utilities, we will the size of N.C. not have to cut as State makes its many classes or sustainability staff and faculty project unique. positions,” Dean “Since N.C. said. “You don’t State is the larghave to be green David Dean, outreach and est fou r-yea r to understand communications coordinator for the institution in the importance University Sustainability Office Nor t h C a ro of clean air, belina, we levering fiscally responsible and leaving this world a age partnerships and rely heavily on collaborations to get sustainability better place.” The University Sustainability Of- work done,” Dixon said. “Most unifice, which is the largest of its kind versities only have one full-time posi-
“Change Your State is a behavior change campaign to educate the community on how to lead a more sustainable lifestyle.”
tion devoted to sustainability, but we have three full-time staff, two grantfunded positions and two part-time student interns.” Rachel Conley, a senior in fisheries and wildlife science and the chair of the Student Government Sustainability Commission, said she thinks the new tool will be effective. “[The tool] is an eye-catching feature that specifically brings attention to vampire energy or dormant energy consumption via things like chargers that are left plugged in or lamps not in use,” Conley said. Conley said, however, the Sustainability Office should not just limit their marketing of the project to students living on campus. “This tool can reach more students if the University Sustainability Office markets this tool as a way to reduce your energy bill,” Conley said. Ansilta De Luca-Westrate, a sophomore in elementary education, said
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Athletics directors get high salaries in ACC Athletics director position seen as similar to a CEO’s position. Jessie Halpern Staff Wrtier
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Officer Rigsby and Officer J.C. Black surveys Western Boulevard and Dan Allen Drive after a student was struck by a vehicle Oct. 20.
Student remains under care after vehicle runs him over No charges filed in accident involving truck and pedestrian. John Wall News Editor
Sophomore in chemical engineering Alex Lloyd remains in the hospital with serious injuries after a vehicle struck him and dragged him down the road Oct. 20. Lloyd sustained injuries across his body, including broken vertebrae and ribs. Raleigh Police Department Public Affairs Director Jim Sughrue said files will not be charged against the driver. While crossing Western Boulevard at the intersection of Dan Allen Drive, Lloyd was hit by a GMC truck driven by Thelton Best, junior in agriculture management. He crossed when the “Do Not Walk” sign was flashing, and therefore police did not charge Best, according to the wreck report. Best did not stop for five feet after impact, the report said. “[Best] hit me and knocked me on the pavement, then ran over me. I tumbled underneath [the truck]. He didn’t put on the brakes when he hit me; he kept going. Then he stopped,” Lloyd said. Lloyd said he had five broken ribs, a broken shoulder blade, a broken collar bone, four broken vertebrae, a punctured lung, pelvis broken in two places, two sprained ankles and a se-
In order to prevent similar acvere case of road rash. Lloyd dropped all of his classes this cidents in the future, Lloyd sugsemester, but said he plans to return gested building elevated walkways next semester when he can walk. Doc- over busy intersections surroundtors told him to stay out of school ing campus. “We need to have overwalks on until he completes rehabilitation and regains the use of his legs, which doc- Western [Boulevard] and Hilltors told him should happen by winter sborough Street. It’s not too bad when walking around on campus, break. “I have been in the hospital for a but on Western, we need to have week. I get out in two days, and then sidewalks that go up and over so I have to go to rehab for a week or so, that people can cross the street and then I can go home,” Lloyd said. safely,” Lloyd said. Freshman in engineering Chris Lloyd’s 20th birthday was Oct. 21 Ahern said he — the day after the feels safe when accident. crossing t he “My birthday was street on and Friday, so I spent my around campus. birthday in the hos“Just make eye pital,” Lloyd said. contact with the Best did not f lee driver when you the scene, according are crossing the to Sughrue. street,” Ahern “It was not a hit Alex Lloyd, sophomore in said. and run,” Sughrue chemical engineering Building walksaid. “I do not anways over roads ticipate charges will be filed against the driver based on would be a waste of money, according to Ahern. the information received.” “I wouldn’t mind if we had that Best was contacted by email for sort of sidewalk system, but it comment, but did not respond. Pedestrians do not have enough might not be worth it,” Ahern said. time to cross streets, according to Lloyd. “You don’t even have time to walk across the street before the time on the crosswalk starts counting down,” Lloyd said.
“He didn’t put on the brakes when he hit me; he kept going.”
As UNC-Chapel Hill’s athletic director of 15 years, Dick Baddour, prepares for retirement, UNC has been preparing the paperwork for a competitive contract with his replacement, Bubba Cunningham. Cunningham, who has previously been the athletic director for the University of Tulsa, signed a six-year contract assuring him $525,000 in annual salary, as well as a $40,000 expense account and a bonus structure, according to Chapel Hill’s athletics department. When Baddour was asked to elaborate on how a half-million dollar salary could be justified in light of the UNC System’s removal of hundreds of educational positions, he responded by saying such questions should be referred to the chancellor’s office and UNC’s press staff. Baddour, reluctant to speak about the salary of his replacement, did offer to elaborate on the responsibilities of an athletics director. “[The responsibilities are to] lead and manage very complex organizations, to manage, in this case, an over $70 million budget, to be responsible for all the personnel action, and all the student athletic programs in place as well as the sports programs, to [over-
see] the building and maintenance and operation of facilitates, to conduct major events on campus. That’s just to name a few,” Baddour said. Chancellor Randy Woodson’s salary is $420,000, according to publicly available documents. N.C. State’s budget in 2010-11 was $1.2 billion, according to the University website. When N.C. State’s Athletic Director Debbie Yow was asked to comment on the spending that goes into securing an athletics director, she offered background information, but asked to not be quoted, saying it was not her business to look into how other schools spend their money. Yow’s salary is $450,000, according to a data set aggregated by USA Today regarding athletics director salaries. Dutch Baughman, executive director of the Athletic Directors’ Association, elaborated on why athletic director positions are so hard to fill, and why it is necessary to offer competitive salaries. “Over the past 40 years, the role and responsibility of a director of athletics has changed significantly,” Buaghman said. “Today, if you were to ask the executives of companies that are involved in these searches, they would be very quick to tell you that what they look for today in an athletic director would be very similar to what the corporate world would look for in a CEO.”
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Student Occupier arrested Graduate student finds herself in jail for trespassing while protesting. John Wall News Editor
Eight protesters were arrested downtown Thursday night at Occupy Raleigh, including one student. Police charged Katina Gad, a graduate student in design, with second degree trespassing — a type one misdemeanor. Gad said one of the reasons she was arrested was she was sitting in a chair. “I was sitting in a lawn chair on the sidewalk holding a sign. I don’t understand how sitting on a chair on the sidewalk can be considered trespassing,” Gad said. “Police say ‘sit up, stand down.’ We have video of them saying we can sit down.”
Officials were not planning on arresting people tonight, according to Gad. “I walked into the state Capitol building earlier today and they said they weren’t planning on arresting people. They just wanted to remove items [such as chairs],” Gad said. Gad said the arrests are far less important than the message Occupiers are trying to get across. “I intend to protest economic injustice. What’s important is getting equality for people. I want to keep the focus on the pure, real meeting,” Gad said. “I have nothing but the best intentions.” Jim Sughrue, public affairs director of the Raleigh Police Department, has been handling all requests from press regarding Occupy Raleigh. He was out of the office Thursday night; therefore, a statement was not obtained.
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