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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Locals host international students for holidays Emily wALKER \\ S TA FF W R I T E R Ibrahim Aljubayri has spent the past five years celebrating Thanksgiving with American families, and this year he joined a group of international students at a dinner hosted by a couple of friends. Community members Linda Condon, Daniel Headman, and Scott Calvert are a group of friends that have been hosting events for international students for years. This year, Condon prepared Thanksgiving dinner and held the event at Calvert’s home. This tradition of hosting students started before the three even met. According to Condon, when she was a kid growing up in New Jersey, her family would host international students from Princeton Theological Seminary. “They’d come to our house, we’d kind of adopt them, and they’d come for vacations and holidays, or if they had questions about culture stuff, we were resources for them,” Condon said.
Condon’s interest in hosting Florida Tech students began with Florida Tech’s ISSS Friendship Program—a program that matched students with a community member who would, in Condon’s words, take the student “under their wing.” Condon’s involvement with the Friendship Program eventually grew into something much bigger. Today, with Headman and Calvert’s help, she hosts dinners, organizes camping trips and even has students over to her house for Christmas. Aljubayri, a Saudi computer engineering student in his first year of his PhD, is accustomed to these types of events. The first time he went to an event like this was during his first year in the U.S., when he was a freshman in college.
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Reduce, Reuse, Contaminate? olivia mckelvey \\ C o nt ri b u t i n g W R I T E R Recycling is evolving at Florida Tech. Changes were mandated this semester after summer fines reached up to $6,000 for placing contaminated materials such as food waste, non-biodegradable plastics and much more into recycling bins across campus, according to Florida Tech’s stand-in sustainability officer Holly Chichester.
Florida Tech is no longer a single stream recycling campus. Meaning that all paper fibers, plastics, metals and other containers are mixed in a collection truck, instead of being sorted by the depositor into separate commodities. Ever since China, one of the biggest importers of U.S. recyclable materials, tightened its recycling policies, Waste Management companies has had to raise its contamination fees.
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Eleanor Mathers Editor in Chief
Students are welcomed to a "home away from home" in order to experience American traditions in a fun, laid-back environment.
Emily Walker // Crimson
New Chinese regulations have essentially stopped accepting raw materials from foreign recycling businesses. Thus, forcing many large scale organizations, companies, and colleges to take a hit and pay the consequence of human error. There is currently a 3% rate for “error and unavoidable contamination”, however this allows very little room for mistakes to be made when it comes to recycling. The fact that Florida Tech paid $6,000 for only one month in contamination fees is concerning to some
students. The fact that it was during the month of July, where a large percentage of the student body is not even on campus, worsens their concern. On campus initiatives are underway as the Student Organization for Sustainable Action (SOSA) is doing its best to educate students and faculty about the new recycling changes and policies.
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Intramural Director added to Athletics Department Ashley Letendre \\ S o c i a l M e d i a C o o r d i n at o r Athletic teams may not be for everyone in college, but intramurals are considered the next big thing for active students. Florida Tech’s intramurals program provides a multitude of sports and opportunities for non-student athletes as an extracurricular for students. The program is now a growing on campus, especially with the expansion of their staff. Most recently, the Athletics department added a director of intramurals to primarily focus on intramurals events.
Matt Carey
Ashley Letendre // Crimson
Matt Carey has been working with the athletics department for two years and believed that this new position was a great addition to the program. “When this opportunity of intramural director opened up, I knew that
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