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Volume II, Issue XXIII
Pace University, Pleasantville/Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Wednesday, April. 24, 2013
PACE CELEBRATES EARTH MONTH Cecilia Levine
Feature Editor Cecilia.R.Levine@Pace.edu
Students on the Pace campus are often seen walking around with some sort of cup in their hands. Whether students sip tea from the paper tea cups throughout class, guzzle jungle juice out of the plastic, red solo cups up at the houses or hydrate with the Aquafina water bottles that are kept cold in Kessel, liquids are a constant for Pace students, staff and faculty alike. Somehow, all of these empty, recyclable materials manage to miss the recycling bins completely and end up lining the floor around the garbage cans on campus. “People are always throwing trash out the car windows or into the woods,” said sophomore communications major James Hoag. “It doesn’t seem like anyone really cares.” Littering is only one of the many environmentally damaging habits that Pace students practice regularly. As a tribute to Earth Month, a number of Pace organizations, associations, clubs, staff and faculty have been addressing various earth-related issues by Continued on Page 2
Photo From Center for Community Action and Research at Pace University
“Pace Celebrates Earth Day”
Junior Jonathan Calixto and peers lend a helping hand at the Greenberg Nature Center.
Pace Professor Explores Solar Energy on Campus Erin O’Gorman News Editor
Erin.M.OGorman@Pace.edu
Professor Hsui-Lin Winkler of the Seidenberg school has started a project with students that explores the idea of using solar energy as power. “The project is a small one – to analyze the solar energy generated in our campus and our energy consumption pattern as a college campus,” said the professor, who pitched the project as part of the Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Initiative. Eventually, it became a project fo-
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cused entirely on looking at solar energy on campus. An analysis says the proposed research project will use the newly installed solar classroom at the Pleasantville Campus to analyze the solar energy generation and to investigate the classroom electricity usage in terms of energy demand and consumption due to the various student activities. According to the same source, the solar energy generation varies depending on season and overall use and so it is a form of education for people to understand how solar energy can be generated and
consumed. “Solar panels, although expensive, they pay off in about 15 years. This is usually done without the consideration of the generation of CO2 in fossil fuel. When pollution is free and the cost of warming is not included, solar energy can be disadvantageous in competing. The solar classroom panels were donated by ConEd. Some power companies are now willing to offer free installation, and they will collect electricity bills through the life time of the panels to pay for it. This is like home mortgage, except the total cost is about 10% of
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Pace’s baseball team locks in their eighth consecutive win against Adelphi University.
the home cost,” said Winkler. As for how they can affect the community at Pace, she said, “For large panels, they become part of the energy resources. For small panels, it serves more as an education tool. Pace is part of larger college community AASHE, the installation of solar panels help us to use renewable energy.” The calculations in the research were done using the Pace weather station, which records solar irradiation every 15 minutes, which provides a reference with variations depending on the time of day and the season. “For example,
we plot below two solar cell data from August 15, 2012 and from Jan 15, 2012. There is a significant seasonal difference in solar power generation, an average of 600 W/m2 in August 15, 2012 vs. 250 W/m2 in Feb 15, 2012. This is more than a factor of two between the summer and the winter in our area,” said Winkler. “We were just excited to see that we have some panels up on the roofs and provide us significant energy in the e-House and be a solar panel showcase in the solar classroom,” Winkler said in an article in the Pulse.
TOWNHOUSE DAY, YOU IN?
RYAN GOSLING’S NEW FILM
Pace’s day of debauchery looms closer. How has it changed from last year and what should newcomers expect?
The Place Beyond the Pines opened at The Jacob Burns. Is the crime drama worth your time? The Chronicle decides.
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