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Student newspaper of Illinois Institute of Technology since 1928 OCES ‘recycling ambassadors' aid in sustainable efforts during Homecoming By Brock Auerbach-Lynn TECHNEWS WRITER Homecoming Carnival is one of llT’s largest and most popular events each year The music, attractions and free food draw more than 1,000 people to campus However, all these people eating and drinking with only disposable products tends to produce a moune tain of waste After witnessing the sheer volume of trash in years past and the fact that much of it includes recyclable bottles and cans, llT’s Office of Campus Energy & Sustainability def cided to use this year’s Homecoming Carnival as the first major event outside of IPRO Day with recycling stations Throughout the carnival, attendees may have noticed the eight recycling stations scattered throughout Morton Park 7 each comprised of 3 trash bins: one for recycling, one for composting and one for garbage Each bin was labeled and had pictures of the approe priate items that could go in it Every station was manned by a volunteer recycling ambase sador who helped people dispose of their trash into the appropriate containerl Attendees seemed a little perplexed at first that someone wanted to help them with throwing stuff out but they quickly caught on how to separate their trash appropriately Even the more complex cases involving multiple plates (trash), leftover food (compost), napkins (trash), wood skewers (compost), cups (ref cycle) and forks (trash) were handled quickly with a little instruction from the volunteer ref cycling ambassadors The volunteers efforts to green Homecoming were met with very positive re, sults and many commented to the volunteers as to what a good idea this was and how it was about timel At the end of the day, the recycling stations and the efforts of the volunteer recye cling ambassadors helped achieve approxi mately 45% recycling, 45% trash and 10% compostable material from the carnival, in contrast to previous years when 100% went to trash A huge successl The Office ofCampus Energy & Susi tainability will learn from this event and build on its’ success in expanding llT’s Event Recye cling Program If you have an event you would like help with, please email campussustainabile ity@iitledul A special thanks to the volunteer ref cycling ambassadors, Daniel Medrano, Leslie Villanueva, Siyi Chen, Muddasar Munir, Anqi Liu and Iinjin Huang, without whom this suce cess would not have been possible Photos by BrockAuerbachrLynn Changes @ @1an library was We? ccess in) {IE3 mfimmaflmmcqm BmWWi, mmmmmm Mmmfififibflm Mmemmmaanwww mmmmm mam TUESDAY OCTOBERZ, 2012 Volume 174 I Issue 5 technewsiit.com CAMPUS SLIPSTICK :‘4 SPORTS M SGA. EWB hold annual retreats By Utsav Gandhi CAMPUS EDITOR One ofthe priorities for student or, ganizations to function more effectively and sustainably on campus is to make sure their members are meeting at least once a year be, yond the general body meetings to set goals and decide upon achievable actions in order to achieve those goals Towards this regard, two major student organizations organized daylong retreats on Saturday for its members to get together, hear from the exec board for the plans for the semester, and chalk out de tails for their roles in the functioning of the organizations With the recent Finance Board budget cuts and the new elections of Sena, tors from last week’s Student Government Association elections, it was an important time for the SGA to regroup and discuss how business was going to be carried out this semesterl Members from all three branches gathered to talk about possibly setting con, crete guidelines as to how new student orgs will be approved at Senate and to promote collaboration among student orgs to more efficiently use Finance Board budget allocae tions Senators also talked about how to hold student orgs accountable with attendance and success at their events and its consee quent effect on their future budget propose als This included a suggestion welcomed by TechNews wherein student orgs could ace tively write follow up articles or submit phoe tographs from their events to showcase and verify its success Some other ideas thrown out were the possibility of existing student orgs “endorsing" new ones to provide legibile ity, and student orgs being required to fill out posteevent and posteconference summaries to elucidate how similar future opportunities would help them After this, the three differ, ent branches broke off to discuss individual plans before heading out to dinner in Line coln Park followed by a hilarious night spent at Chicago’s famous sketch improv comedy show, The Second City The Engineers Without Borders retreat caught everyone up to speed on eve erything EWB was doing and was an excel, lent opportunity to get a better understand, ing of the foundation, mission, and vision of EWBeUSAl The event featured a variety of presentations by professionals related to the model of EWBl The day started with a pre sentation by the President Sara Glade talking about the starts of her personal involvement in EWB; her experience of going to Haiti for a water supply and distribution project; with an additional focus on education and electrification in schools The Haiti project is currently closed but she mentioned that the team is currentlylooking for help in research on new projects She also spoke about other opportunities to get involved with EWB out, side of projects, like fundraisers (including a Coffee and Bagels Fundraiser on Wednesday morning in the E1 lobbyl), social events and conferences This presentation was followed up by a talk by the President of the EWB Chicagoland Professional Chapter President Emily Wigley; who spoke at length about the projects she had been involved in Africa and Central America She stressed on the critical (continued on page 3)