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Friday, November 15, 2013 • Volume 118, Issue 57
ENVIRONMENT
TRANSFORMING THE TRASH Animal advocates Students upcycle materials to create sustainable furniture
Alexis Rebennack News Writer
Newspaper furniture, bike tire hammocks and liquor bottle lights are just a few of the things University students will see today at the University Recreation Center from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The University architecture students in the elective course titled [UP]cycling>[down]cycling had four hours Tuesday night to assemble sustainable furniture using only newspaper, water bottles, bike tires, glass bottles and washing machines to be presented in an exhibit today as one of their final projects for the semester. On one of the first days of class, the students researched what materials could be used for upcycling and how to make furniture using only materials intrinsic to the product – no glue, tape, screws or other binding materials are allowed. “The second thing we had to do after choosing materials was go to the UREC and interview people to see what we as architecture students could do to provide for them, and really they said seating by the classrooms,” said fourth year architecture student Teresa Williams. UPCYCLE, see page 11
to help in disasters Renee Barrow Contributing Writer
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Architecture students upcycle newspaper and plastic bottles [top left], bicycle tire tubes [top right], and washing machines [bottom right] Tuesday to create sustainable furniture for their Upcycle Exhibition project. The exhibition will be on display Nov. 16 to Dec. 6.
While there are many animal rescue organizations in the greater Baton Rouge area, there are not many animal advocacy groups specifically targeting fallouts of disaster situations, until now. The University’s Stephenson Disaster Management Institute recently formed the Animals in Disaster Advisory Group, which will work to preserve animal safety in situations like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and other disasters. After taking note of the University Agricultural Center’s estimate of more than $75 million in livestock and forage economic losses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the SDMI decided to take action. “We’re focusing on response to animals in disaster situations,” said Lauren Bourg, SDMI manager of external relations. The group is a combined ANIMAL ADVOCACY, see page 4
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Online study room reservation to launch in spring semester System will mimic testing center’s Camille Stelly Contributing Writer
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Student Government is teaming with Middleton Library and Information Technology Services to launch a system allowing students to reserve study rooms online.
As early as spring 2014, Middleton Library’s study room reservation process will become streamlined and move online much like the Office of Evaluation and Assessment’s testing signup. Student Government presented the idea to Middleton Library at the beginning of the semester, but the plan to implement the new system became definite only recently,
said SG Vice President Taylor Parks. “Moving the study reservation process online won’t have any effect on the student workers at the circulation desks, they have other responsibilities,” Parks said. “This will eliminate the middleman.” But students will still be able to reserve a study room in-person through the circulation desks if necessary. Middleton Library collaborated with Information Technology Services to develop a system. ITS launched a demo for testing purposes which will be used to model the actual version. As of now, the only thing
holding up launching the system is for Middleton Library to decide which data package will be used. Each package has a certain number of entries and each entry handles a certain number of reservations that can be made in a certain time frame. The costs of packages are measured by number of entries in each package, which can range from 20 entries to more than 100 entries. Package costs range from $899 to $1499 per year. Student Government would cover 20 percent of the costs. Pending Middleton Library’s STUDY ROOM, see page 4