Student newspaper of the Illinois Institute of Technology since 1928 Sustainability Forum explores future goals, opportunities Utsav Gandhi CAMPUS EDITOR The Ofiice of Campus Energy and Sustainability (OCES) hosted the first Sustain, ability Forum of the semester on Friday, Sep tember 06, 2013 at 12:30pm in the Hermann Hall Ballrooml It was basically an introduction to campus sustainability goals for the next few years as well as an introduction to opportuni ties for students, especially freshmen, inter, ested in sustainability related topics, to get involved with various campus organizations and programs promoting similar ideas With a deliciously catered, glutenefree as well as veganefriendly lunch, the event also served as the second Freshman 15 event for the semese ter, as part of the First Year Experience pro, gram initiated by the Ofiice of Campus Life This program provides incentives for firsteyear students to participate in various educational, social, professional, athletic and academic events, all free of cost, throughout their first year at IIT The event began with a listing of the various goals concretized by the OCES for the university pertaining to energy conservation and sustainability The current progress being made towards this regard, covering a broad range of umbrella topics such as water con, servation, electricity generation, supply chain & waste management, transportation as well as emissions were discussed Most goals were within the framework of baseline 2010 levels, to be achieved by the year 2020, for the overall university Some of these goals include reduce ing the annual utilities purchase by 40% and natural gas by 25%; managing 100% of storm water received on campus (the progress to, wards which is already 332% in two years); fulfilling the 79% potential recycling capacity of the campus (we currently stand at around 30%); having 100% of IIT’s vehicular fleet to be powered renewably; 50% emissions of base, line 2010 levels by 2020; as well as pushing for more organic food as well as LEED certified buildings on campus A variety of student groups and of, fices are working in partnership with OCES to assist with these goals The Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (http://wwwI iitledu/wiserl) was represented by Peggy Mure phy, Assistant Directorl She spoke about how WISER is pushing for more interdisciplinary research initiatives and student outreach to “establish IIT as a national leader in energy and sustainability, complementing Chicago’s emergence as a sustainable city" The Armour College of Engineering Undergraduate Stu, dent Council (http://wwwiitengineeringthe emeslcoml) was represented by the President, Sunny Patel (MMAE 4th year) who spoke about the college’s initiatives within the four Themes of Energy, Health, Water and Security to offer research opportunities, studenteled programs, alumni events, career panels and field trips, many of which revolve around an engineeringecentered approach to a more suse tainable use of resources UFarmIIT (https:// iitlcollegiatelinknet/organizationjUFarmIIT), the campus organization dedicated to the pur pose of managing an urban farm on IIT’s came pus (to complement IIT’s ecological conserva tion measures and making the main campus more sustainable) was also represented They spoke about how the farm is active and alive with fresh produce and even bees, and invited everyone to drop by and experience the farm The farm is located on the Greek Quad, by the Triangle and Alpha Sigma Alpha housesl Another organization which was present included Engineers for a Sustainable World (http://wwwleswiitlorg/news) , IIT Chapter, whose President Kenneth Ruflato (ChBE/ENVE 4th year) spoke about the two projects they are currently involved with , a solar powered WIFI and information com, munication device installation projects in developing regions around the world, along with a high school outreach program promote ing sustainability here in Chicago The IPRO program (http://iproliitledul) was represented by Mrl Tom Iacobius, Director of Operations, who spoke about the various IPRO projects directly related to sustainability and the new concept of IPRO ‘clusters’ wherein one of the umbrella themes is sustainability itself Sustain ID, an organization at the Institute of Design involved with similar issues; and NetImpact (http://blogsIiitledu/stuart/tag/neteimpact/), an organization working towards encouraging social and environmental grassroots change in societies, were also present The event ended with an announce, ment about the SMHEC Conference 2013 which is scheduled on October 18th and men, tioned about the November Sustainability foruml Visit http://wwwIiitIedu/campus,suse tainability/ for more information about these events Annual skydiving adventure thrills studen 5 Will Syvongsa TECHNEWS WRITER Iould I u jump out of a perfectly ‘plaI the thought runs acr s the minds of many individual en they en, counter a s ' Sk dIving Is the act' the use of a par mg def I E Lhty IIT students participated int ac 1V1 I on Monday, September 2, V\ spoI ored by Union Board and the Student Ac ties Fund (SAE) Students ere up earl to leave IIT at 7 am in order to Get to Otta 1, Illinois before 9 alml Upon I a 30 minute fore signing waIveIs and forming groups of five to six people Skvd e Chicago is an experienced training facility for first time jump tandem jumps, or jum} where an i go ‘ long V th you, are detailed and thore ought Students net up with their instructor 'ho guided them through every motion nece for the jump The emotioI nged . r to excitement, nervousn II o . ' When experience, tIme jumper and fourth year student, Alexander Kosmas id that when he The only complic ion during the ather delay 11 led to almost w hours of During this time, IIT studentt re able to I ocialize; meet new studeI om they may not have ever gotten a chance to meet and some devoted Iool w k After the de all ‘tue re able to complete th ‘e back on campus b I Are you interested pm and 30 pin ng and Photo courtesy ofthe Office ofCampus Life checking this item otf of IIT’s bucket list? ' ing is traditionally a Union Board ally hIppeIL on I weekendl For Information about and other IIT e\ the uni calendar can be V1 ed as well as HaV ‘11 has almost all student organization ents on the front page The Union Bo; d events are al posted on the Facebook, T\ ter and HI Link pages The General Body MeetiI also be attended and Union Board can be contacted at ub'@iitledul technewsiit.com OPINION 2 CAMPUS 3-4 AErE 6 MSI-IIT _ Internship program Kori Bowns BUSINESS MANAGER The Museum of Science and In, dustry (MSI) is the largest science museum in the western hemisphere, holding over 35 thousand artifacts and almost 14 acres of in, teractive exhibit space MSI is contained in the former Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and opened in 1933 under philanthropist Julius Rosene wald’s vision to create a handseon industry museum in the United States The museum celebrated its 80th birthday this summer in achieving its mission to “inspire the invene tive genius in everyone" along with the help of some IIT students This summer, eight Illinois Tech students were hired by the museum as full, time Guest Programs Interns at the Museum of Science and Industry The students came from a variety of different backgrounds, both personally and academically During the internship, the eight students learned and presented a variety of live science demonstrations to museum guests on a daily basis In total, the students learned seven different programs over the summer, and facilitated them with over 30 thousand guests throughout the duration of the twelve week internship Interns work alongside a team of nine other yeareround, fulletime facilitators at the museum, including two lead interns, as well as other IIT students who have for, merly completed the internship and take on a leadership role as they help the new interns learn demonstrations and improve commu nication skills The yeareround facilitators assist the IIT interns by observing their deme onstrations and offering constructive critie cism and feedback in regard content, style, and delivery Their programs included demon, strations from across all realms of science, from astronomy to biology One show, Hap, py Brrthday, is an interactive mock birthday party for a famous scientist or inventor that features several experiments with liquid ni trogen and culminates in making liquid ni trogen ice cream for the audience Another program, Bangs, Flashes, and Fire, MSI’s most highlyeattended show, involves a series of explosive chemistry experiments where the audience learns about matter, combuse tion, and chemical reactions “I became interested in the intern, ship through the stories of previous MSI volunteers and summer interns," said Trevor Wasserzieher, an intern from this summer and a second year biomedical engineering student at IIT “After hearing about all the cool stufi’ that I could possibly do, there was no way I could pass up on such an opportue nity" Wasserzieher also commented on the growth he experienced while completing the internship: “There were so many skills that were utilized and strengthened through, out the internship that I carry with me for practical use in my future careerl My public ( continued on Page 4)