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October 11, 2007
GREEKS CAMP OUT TO BENEFIT CHILDREN by Jana Davis Staff Writer
Sigma Nu's new candidate class camped out on Oct. 9 by Broncho Lake to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They are continuing to raise money for their philanthropy by starting a letter-writing campaign. Students can participate in the letter-writing campaign by filling out letters with the names ofpeople they know will donate to St. Jude's. The letters will be provided by Sigma Nu, said Kenny Reinbold, president of Sigma Nu. This year's campaign banquet will be from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Communications Building in Room 120. There will be prizes for people who bring the most names and free food for everyone, Reinbold said. "I hope everyone realizes how special St. Jude's is," Reinbold said. "We had to come up with the details on-the-fly," John Bobb-Semple, a junior marketing and political science major, said. Bobb-Semple said that this experience will help them grow as a class. Reinhold said that this experience will help the new class come together as a team and help raise their own awareness for St. Jude's. The class came up with ideas that included push-, ing people to class for one to two dollars on a couch and roasting s'mores for students who donated money. The goal, Bobb-Semple Photo by Alex Gambill said, is to raise $1,000. He said that the class is thinkSigma Nu members Evan Scrutchins, civil engineering sophomore, and Mark Kollmorgen, criminal justice junior, raise money for St. Jude Children's Hospital ing of new things as they go. research by offering a two dollar ride to class for Andrea Miller, marketing junior, and Tiffany Palmer, biology sophomore.
see CAMP, page 5
Chartwells helps manage waste by Justin Langston Staff Writer
Chartwells, the company that supplies food to the university campus, has instituted Project Clean Plate, an attempt to reduce the amount of food waste in the campus dining system. Chartwells hopes to reduce food waste by 45 percent over the next three weeks. According to the company's fact sheet on the project, "The goal of Project Clean Plate is to encourage students to reduce food waste." The company says that several hundred tons of food is thrown away on college campuses every year, adding to the community's landfill. Chartwells hopes to use this program to raise social awareness about global hunger and the environmental problem posed by the huge amounts of waste that college campuses go through every year. The company has several means to achieve their goal. First, during every week in October, they will measure the total amount of food that is thrown out. "We separated the food from the containers," said Jennifer Yeaman, Campus Marketing director of Chartwells Higher Education. "Then we measured every meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner." By doing this, the company
by Nelson Solomon Staff Writer
Photo Illustration by Vista photographer Chris Otten
Chartwells' Project Clean Plate program is designed to reduce the amount of food waste on campus. can accurately measure how high the food waste to regular trash ratio is. Chartwells hopes that the percentage of reduction will increase by 15 percent every week. If the percentages can be met, the company also plans to have raffles to include students in the process. Prizes include $25 in flex dollars, free coffee for a week and
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a portable DVD player. Furthermore, if the company can meet its goals this week, it will donate several pounds of canned food to Britville Food Pantry. In the first week, if the 15 percent reduction is met, they will donate 150 pounds. In the second week, if the 30 percent reduction is met, Chartwells will donate 200 pounds. In
the third and final week, if the 45 percent reduction is met, Chartwells will donate 250 pounds to the food bank. Chartwells hopes this initiative will spur student awareness of the problems of food waste and global hunger. Justin Langston can be reached at jlangston@thevistaonline.com.
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The UCOSA Senate confirmed the appointment of two new Supreme Court justices and a director of public relations at its weekly meeting Oct. 8. Dylan Burgey and Da'Mon Smith were appointed as justices and John Bobb-Semple was named the group's director of public relations for UCOSA. President Pro Tempore Logan Reynolds also announced the appointment of Chase Moore, Beth Marcotte and Carrie Franke as organization liaisons, and Brandon Cox as parliamentarian. The organization liaisons will serve as messengers between organizations and Reynolds, and the parliamentarian will serve as an expert on parliamentary procedure, Reynolds said. According to Reynolds, the liaisons will represent organizations as divided by alphabetical order. Burgey, Smith and BobbSemple were confirmed by the positive majority vote on Executive Orders 07101, 07-102 and 07-103. Smith explained that the judicial branch of UCOSA has been dormant, but in
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reality, the Supreme Court "does have original jurisdiction in different situations that come up on campus." But, despite their jurisdiction, "nothing comes to be considered before the Court." Smith said he will take an active role and work to help the Court come alive and do his part to progress UCO as a whole through his role as a member of the Court. The session began with a guest speaker, Nathan Box, from the Commuter Student Services office and the UCOMMUTE Council. Box explained that of the approximately 16,000 students currently enrolled at UCO, 14,366 do not live on campus and commute to school. Box explained that the purpose of the group is to reach out to the commuter students on campus and help them become more active on campus. Box said there are two types of commuter students, traditional and nontraditional. Traditional commuter students are those who travel to the UCO campus, whether by foot, bike, mass transportation personal vehicle, or Greek housing residents, according to Box.
see UCOSA, page 5