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friday april
23 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Vendors flock to Brickyard for Earth Day 40th annual Earth Day Celebration had more than 80 booths
green symbol on them. We’re trying to make everything better for us and for the students on campus.” Housekeeping is using new machines that are safer and better on the environment along with the green Chelsey Francis cleaning supplies. Even Pest ManageStaff Writer ment on campus has gone green. As a Earth Day, an annual celebration on method of pest management, HouseApril 22, was celebrated in the Brick- keeping uses Rodent Traps, which are yard between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and a green version of mouse traps. “Instead of using harsh germ killing included more than 80 vendors and chemicals, we use displays. Some of the Ionator,” Leach the displays were said. “We put tap from campus groups water into it and by or organizations, using battery power, g roups i n Wa ke [it] heats the water so C ou nt y, a s wel l it is hot, which kills as a few statewide germs just as well groups. as the harsh chemiUniversity Housecals.” keeping had a disNessa Stone, opplay that showed the erations manager ways they are “going for Waste Reduction green.” Kim Dunnand Recycling, said Danzy and Chris Lee Ziong, freshman in the Waste ReducLeach, both building biomedical engineering tion and Recycling environmental techare doing all they can nicians with University Housekeeping, and Randy Reed, a to help reduce waste. Waste Reduction building environmental manager with and Recycling sponsors the Pack-NUniversity Housekeeping, were pres- Go sale at the end of the spring semesent to share the ways that Housekeep- ter. They are also in charge of placing ing has gone green and how they are walkway recycling receptacles. “Part of what we’re going out here working to improve the environment. “We used to use 905 chemicals that is promoting [the] Pack-N-Go sale, were really harsh, but now everything which is a way that we prevent used we use in Housekeeping is green,” items from college dorms, such as soDunn-Danzy said. “They all have the fas and bed sheets, from going to the
“In the short run, I think this will make some people more aware of environmental issues.”
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Laura Carroll, freshman in First Year College, shops for dresses at the Sugar Magnolia booth on the Brickyard during Earth Day Thursday. The event featured shops, exhibits from University departments and advocacy organizations. “This is my new favorite store,” Carroll said. “Today I even dressed like a tree: green up top and brown pants.”
dump,” Stone said. “We sell the items back to people who need them.” According to Stone, the response to Earth Day in the Brickyard was good. “We’ve had great responses to our display, and it seems like other dis-
plays have had good responses as well,” Stone said. “It’s been pretty fun today being out here.” Lee Xiong, a freshman in biomedical engineering, said he attended the celebration. He said he found it to be
good. In high school, Xiong said he was the president of the Environmental Club. “I found the event to be a lot of fun,”
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Fraternity to host second spring event Pi Kappa Phi completes two philanthropy events benefiting PUSH America this week Annie Albright News Editor
Pi Kappa Phi will host its second philanthropy event of the week, the Tournament of Roses, Saturday. Ben Lingo, sophomore in civil engineering, said he organized both his fraternity’s spring philanthropy events as the PUSH chair for Pi Kappa Phi. “We started with our philanthropy last night at the Brickhouse where we had Band of Oz, and all the money we raised is going to PUSH America, which is a nonprofit organization that helps people with physical and mental disabilities,” Lingo said. Pi Kappa Phi’s second spring philanthropy event, Lingo said, will be this weekend. “Tournament of Roses will be Saturday,” Lingo said. “There will be a sorority flag football tournament starting at 1 [p.m.] and there
will also be a cookout and barbecue the brothers is a son of a band member, Lingo said. too.” “We have had Band of Oz the past The fraternity donates a significant portion of the proceeds from both couple years,” Lingo said. “We had ... Prefontaine open this year.” events to its national philanthropy. Daniel Genung, sophomore in gen“PUSH America is our national phieral engineering, lanthropy,” Lingo said he is the said. “It is great lead singer for being involved the band, Prewith it.” fontaine, which Stefan Kalcopened for Band zynski, junior of Oz. in history and “There is a guy a brother of Pi in a fraternity Kappa Phi, said that we are prethe is excited ty good friends about events. with. We have “I am quite ecknown him since static. The proslast year,” Gepect of helping Stefan Kalczynski, junior in history nung said. “We out others but wrote a song last still having such a great time fundraising, it’s really a year, kind of as a joke, and had him great experience,” Kalczynski said. over, and he listened to it. Somehow we “Along with raising money, PUSH got more serious about the songs and Week is an opportunity for brothers so when he was planning the event for to come together to support one for last night, he said we could play for it.” Genung said the band really enjoyed the more prominent philanthropies in Greek life.” Pi Kappa Phi has created a tradition of hosting Band of Oz because one of BAND continued page 3
“The prospect of helping out others but still having such a great time fundraising, it’s really a great experience.”
Talley event offers students inside look at progress
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Nicholas Sailer, freshman in industrial design, demonstrates his product, Monster Deck, to a judge at eGames Thursday in E. Carroll Joyner Visitor Center. Sailer got involved in eGames through the College of Design, he said “Its a challenging event, but definitely a good opportunity.”
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Duda Paine design team to unveil new models, answer students’ questions regarding Talley renovation Friday at noon
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Representatives from Duda Paine, the lead design team for the Talley renovation project, will be on hand on the second floor of the Student Center Friday morning from noon to 2 p.m. to explain their progress to the general public. While students enjoy refreshments, the minds behind Talley’s new makeover will describe the preliminary architectural design and be available to answer questions. Student Centers President Mary-
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Cobb Randall, a junior in business administration, said the event was set up with the purpose of “bringing students up to speed over what’s been going on over the past year.” “The first hour at least will be devoted to a presentation by Duda Paine,” Randall said. “It’s going to cover where they were when they were selected back in August up to where we are now. They’re going to show their thought processes, what kind of analysis has been done.” According to Randall, the second hour will include a series of visuals. Models of potential designs will be on display, as well as exhibitions of past Duda Paine designs. These models will map out the changes that have been made to project plans since they came into the public eye last fall, according to former student Senator Peter Barnes, a junior in political science
“In the fall, there wasn’t a lot of information about everything,” Barnes said. “Now, they have a fair amount of certainty about where stuff is going to go and they can answer questions a little more concretely.” At 8 a.m. Friday, board members for the Talley Committee will hold a meeting where they will vote on the building program. This includes how much space is allotted for each organization. “That will be voted on and approved so the designers can actually start designing the spaces,” Barnes said. As of right now, the majority of funding for the project will come from student fees. According to Barnes, once plans are finalized, fundraising campaigns will begin to “reduce the burden on students.”
All proceeds benefit the NC State Student Government Kay Yow Memorial
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