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Students follow vegan diet to help Earth

By EASTON WOLLNEY

greenhouse gas emissions, and cows alone produce a large amount of methane, McCord said, so going vegan is one of the best things someone can do for the environment.

According to the vegan outreach website, livestock makes up about 14.5 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, a greenhouse gas.

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The search term “vegan” on Google was at an alltime high in January 2016, according to Google trends, and has steadily increased since 2004.

A vegan, or someone who does not consume any animal products including meat, eggs and dairy, can help reduce deforestation, save water and reduce greenhouse emissions, according to the vegan outreach website.

About 9 million adults in the U.S. are vegetarians as of 2012, according to the vegan outreach website, including about 2 million vegans.

Jon McCord, a junior mechanical engineering junior from Wylie and member of the Animals Rights Coalition at Tech, said he decided to originally follow a vegan diet for ethical reasons, but environmental reasons soon became his primary focus.

“The environmental impacts of society are being widely discussed nowadays,” McCord said. “I think more people look into those kinds of things and realize a vegan diet is one of the primary daily things they can do.”

Livestock agriculture releases large amounts of

If you actually look at it, a big amount of our carbon emission is from factory farming.

ELHAM PIRAYESH STUDENT Environmental concerns are probably a primary reason for the recent jump in those interested in or deciding to follow a vegan diet, McCord said, as well as documentaries exposing poor conditions on factory farms.

Elham Pirayesh, a biotechnology graduate student from Tehran, Iran, said she is part of the Animal Rights Coalition on campus and has followed a vegan diet for almost two years.

Animals used for agriculture consume large amounts

of water, Pirayesh said, and by following a vegan diet, people can save more water than they would if they did not shower for several months. One could save up to 600 gallons of water by eating vegan for a day.

“It’s one of the main consumptions of water in the U.S. and the world,” Pirayesh said, “so by cutting that part, we are basically reducing a lot of

water consumption.”

A c c o r d i n g t o Ve g a n Outreach, agriculture, mostly for meat and dairy products, accounts for 70 percent of freshwater consumption around the globe and 97 percent of soymeal produced is fed to livestock, which can lead to deforestation because of land expansions.

Pirayesh said by raising animals for dietary pur-

poses, it adds an additional step to the use of water and food consumption that could be used for people instead of livestock.

“The amounts of food we are growing for animals,” Pirayesh said, “if we give it to humans we’d be able to feed more humans.”

She said there are several reasons a person could decide to follow a vegan diet, including health rea-

sons, environmental concerns or ethical reasons.

“Everyone is talking about global warming. Everyone is talking about what we should do, like clean energies or like drilling consumption and everything like that,” Pirayesh said. “If you actually look at it, a big amount of our carbon emission is from factory farming.” @EastonWollneyDT

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Students assist with campus recycling process

By JESSICA GUEDEA Staff Writer

A recyclable item goes through a lengthy process before it is actually recycled. There are many students in the recycling facility on campus who work together to make sure the process is completed each day.

Carina Guevara, a se-

nior marketing major from Dallas, is one of many students who work every day to make sure items get recycled properly.

Guevara said a typical workday for her involves constant movement.

“Mondays are the most hectic because that’s the day we’re sorting through off-campus recycling,” Guevara said, “and after-

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sistants pick up recycling around campus and then we sort through that, too.”

Guevara said the sorters do not expect recyclables to already be sorted when they receive them and they make sure everything is properly sorted before sending it to the next location.

Every item received has its own section it belongs to, Guevara said.

The sections include paper, plastic, tin, aluminum, glass and jugs.

“We separate the paper into different sections: cardboard, plain office paper, colored paper and notebook paper, newspaper and binded magazines,” Guevara said. “The next section is plastics and that’s where we put

plastic bottles such as soft drink bottles, water bottles or tea bottles.”

Because they receive so many plastic bottles, Guevara said, they use a compactor to crush all of the bottles after they have been separated.

Tin is another section, including cans, such as bean and soup cans, Guevara said.

This is followed by an aluminum section where they place cans such as soft drink cans, a glass section, which weighs the most of all the items, and a colored and clear section. The colored section typically includes laundry detergent containers and the clear includes milk jugs, Guevara said.

In addition, the facility also recycles electronics and Styrofoam, Julia Peña, a marketing and sustainability intern, said.

The facility has a Styrofoam machine that turns the Styrofoam into bricks, Guevara said. The Styrofoam bricks have been used to construct various buildings across campus, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

After the sorting is complete, different sections go to other locations, Melanie Tatum, unit assistant director of Sustainability and Warehouse Operations, said.

Tatum said paper and plastics go to American Fibers in Lubbock, metals go to CMC Recycling in Lubbock, glass goes to Strategic Metals in Midlothian and electronics go to ECS Refining in Mesquite.

The facility takes recyclables to other locations at least once a week, Peña said. They try to do it in the most sustainable way possible so they prefer to wait until they have large loads to take.

Guevara said the most interesting part of her job is finding different items and watching recycling grow.

“You find so many different things in recycling bags,” Guevara said, “and I think it’s cool to see how much people really care.

We have so much recycling and it’s increased so much.”

Peña said the department received 200 tons of recycling in 2012, but that has increased to 400 tons in 2015, with 18 tons coming from move-in weekend in August. @JessicaGuedeaDT

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Do Texans have too much trust in their government?

Voters not questioning Paxton, Miller not qualified to lead Texas government enough

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en Paxton, the attorney general of Te x a s , r e c e n t l y found himself involved in the Supreme Court’s United States v. Texas, No. 15-647 case. Now, a Texan raising his voice about immigration sounds like any other Tuesday — nothing too noteworthy, right?

However, I must make sure I mention dear Mr. Paxton is not only our attorney general, but also currently facing felony charges.

Now, that sounds much worse than it is, I promise.

His charges are based on the claim that he “misled investors in a technology company,” according to the New York Times. While this happened before he was our attorney general, I am still concerned.

Not only is he still being paid, but he is completely entangled in the Supreme Court case I mentioned earlier.

Essentially, we are continuing to legitimize him and his role in our government because we want his input on this immigration case.

That, I’m sure, is not the only reason he is still serving as the attorney general of Texas, but it is one of the main ones.

We h a v e g o t t e n o u rselves into a cycle of pardoning and pleading for the politicians who say what we want to hear, even if their

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Avery Aiken is a freshman communications studies major from The Woodlands.

reputation is questionable.

We see this with Ken Paxton and his deceitful investment advice, Hillary Clinton and her email scandal, Bernie Sanders and his tax reports, Donald Trump and his political history, and so on.

And three of those names are in the running to be our president — that’s alarming.

In fact, we are often distressed by the lack of integrity many of our politicians show, however, it seems as though we are the ones permitting and perpetuating these characteristics.

If that is the case, then we are degrading our government by not raising our voices louder when the people running it are caught with a less than admirable reputation.

Some of these people even have a history of grossly misusing the power we give them, yet we continue to supply it.

By supporting and continuing to encourage those who have been found harboring moral discrepancies, we are loudly sending the message that personal responsibility becomes irrelevant if our confirmation bias is met.

Kiss our babies, say what we want to hear, fight for the side we want to win and you’re in.

At the end of the day, this isn’t a problem that has to do with Paxton or Clinton or Sanders or Trump.

It’s a problem that has to do with us. We are letting the standards to which

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explain, and I want to keep this interesting.

Long story short, the integrity — if you can call it that — of Paxton is hanging by less than a thread.

I find it extremely hypocritical of people like Governor Greg Abbott, Paxton and Miller, who oppose strong economic regulations but spend money like a rich teen going to the mall for the first time.

This entire Paxton and Miller stink has got me thinking about the integrity of these gentlemen. They’re all just a bunch of old conservative rich white men who use a rigged capitalist system to benefit only for themselves, and all the money they make they use to for the slimiest lawyers and pushover judges.

According to the Dallas Morning News, a lawyer for Paxton is relying heavily on the defense of there being irregularities on the grandjury selection.

He’s not even openly denying any wrongdoing; they’re just saying the system is cheating them.

It irks me, because all the while this is going on, people around Texas are becoming poorer.

But the more mindboggling and all together infuriating case has to do with Ag Commissioner Miller. Honestly, look it up — I cringed when I first heard about this.

To receive an anti-inflammatory “Jesus shot” and compete in a Mississippi rodeo, Miller is said to have used taxpayer and campaign money, according to the Aus-

tin American-Statesman.

To give you a bit more insight as to how ridiculous and embarrassing this guy is, he has given amnesty to cupcakes for classroom parties; apparently sugary treats were banned in classrooms before he arrived, according to him.

However, that’s beside the point. The fact of the matter is, this guy is insane and he’s been elected to lead us.

But, like any good conservative, Miller does have someone to blame for these allegations. According to The Statesman, Miller has blamed an unnamed left-wing organization, even though he’s the one apparently committing these crimes.

The over-arching theme to these issues is the fact that I think the process for punishment for these two gentlemen is going soft on them.

For the most part, especially for Paxton, the Texas Rangers have hardly even given him a slap on the wrist.

Gee, I wonder why this could be (I asked myself sarcastically)?

There’s too much buddy buddy in Austin, and that is more than likely going to impact the punishment of these two.

So far there’s not even anyone asking these two to take a leave of absence from their jobs. They have shown they are unqualified to do the work of a leader and therefore should forfeit their positions.

But hey, if the government’s not going to do anything and they’re not going to do anything, then everything is fine right?

It’s a shameful time to be a Texan and more people should be calling for their resignations. @MichaelCantuDT

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Student hobbies can lead way to success

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ne surefire way to be unhappy is to have no passion. What I mean is, everyone needs to have that one obsession, that outlet that allows you to escape from the stressors of school, work and relationships.

This passion, obviously, can be anything. For many people it’s fitness;fighting against yourself to finish that mile.

Heart pattering like a machine-gun, your blood feeling like it has been replaced with battery acid as that one song blares in your earphones pushing you on for just one second longer.

For others it’s creating art, drawing and sculpting beautiful shapes and

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images while alone in the sanctuary of the studio.

This passion can literally be anything.

The point is, these activities are a form of meditation.

Time when you are forced to live in that specific moment, not beating yourself up over past mistakes or projecting the worries of the future.

This sense of living in the present is sometimes called mindfulness.

Speaking from experi-

ence, the only time I am truly happy is when I am focused on living in the day.

Like everyone else in the world, I have made many mistakes in the past.

Some are simple and humorous in retrospect, such as failed dates, bombing presentations in school and general times when I made an ass out of myself, and some are big-time screw-ups that have a tendency to crop back up in my psyche just as I am trying to fall asleep.

For me, I find serenity in the weight room.

There is something truly addicting about seeing the weight on the bar go up as you trudge day in and day out.

Oftentimes one experiences a loss of desire, and the efforts feel like a complete waste, until that one magical day where you feel invincible, as though you have an inexhaustible reservoir of energy and power.

And these days are what remind you why you fell in love with it in the first place.

We as ordinary people often marvel at the great skill of professional athletes and musicians as they perform their respective crafts, but we never see the millions of hours these people put running scales on the guitar, shooting thousands of foul shots, sacrificing a

social life and most other luxuries the rest of us enjoy, purely for the pursuit of their passions.

I cannot remember what movie I heard this in, but one of my favorite quotes I have ever heard is “dreams are what make life tolerable.”

I think this may have been in the movie “Rudy” or maybe “Remember the Titans,” but it’s true, working toward a goal, a dream, honing your skills for the sake of a tangible goal is one of the most important priorities one can have.

If you don’t have a passion, find one, pursue it and let the rest go. Peace. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Clinton on track to capture Democratic nomination NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton can lose every remaining primary in the coming weeks and still clinch the nomination.

With Clinton’s doubledigit win in New York and more than two dozen new superdelegates joining her camp, rival Bernie Sanders now faces a far steeper path.

Before New York’s contest, Sanders needed to win

68 percent of remaining delegates and uncommitted superdelegates to catch Clinton.

Now to capture the nomination, Sanders must win 73 percent. That means that Clinton can lose all remaining contests and still win. The campaign shifts to primaries Tuesday in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware.

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“He will be out of real estate on Tuesday night even if these states are all close, even if he wins a couple, even if we win three,” said Clinton senior strategist Joel Benenson. “He’s got to win them big, he’s got to win them by landslide and I don’t see that happening.”

If Clinton does as well as expected in next week’s primaries, she’s on track to

clinch the nomination with help from superdelegates, the party insiders who can back either candidate, on June 7.

Based on primaries and caucuses alone, the latest AP delegate count, including New York, shows that Clinton leads by 1,428 to 1,151.

Including superdelegates, the race stands at 1,930 to 1,189, for Clinton. She needs just 27 percent of the remain-

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Clinton is moving quickly to cast herself as the all-butcertain nominee.

“The race for the Democratic nomination is in the home stretch, and victory is in sight,” she told supporters at her victory party in Manhattan on Tuesday night.

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Carbon footprint impacts environment

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Staff Writer

The discussions of global warming that focus primarily on impacts have diverted attention away from the causal mechanism or preventive efforts, such as the carbon footprint people leave behind.

Carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide and methane released into the atmosphere through direct or indirect means, Kerry Griffis-Kyle, associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources Management, said.

Vehicles that run on fossil fuels contribute directly to the increase in carbon dioxide levels. Other activities, such as choice of goods and services, contribute indirectly to the overall carbon footprint, Griffis-Kyle said, because procuring goods and services requires energy, too.

In 2015, about 67 percent of the electricity generated in

the U.S. was from fossil fuels, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration’s website. Hydropower and other renewable sources made up 13 percent.

One of the ways to reduce carbon footprint is to harness renewable forms of energy, such as solar energy and wind energy, Griffis-Kyle said. Other simple ways include using fuel-efficient vehicles, biking or walking whenever possible, having a garden and growing vegetables, opting for locally grown food and substituting meat with vegetables.

“We are in Texas, we are probably not going to go all vegetarian,” she said, “but it is possible to reduce the amount of meat you are eating.”

Recycling practices also are efficient in reducing carbon footprint, Griffis-Kyle said. For instance, recycling metal cans demands much less energy than is required

to mine and extract metal from metal ores.

In the same vein, being cognizant while traveling also helps in reducing the overall carbon footprint, she said.

“I don’t want to say ‘Stop traveling’ because I think that it’s important for people to get to know new places, new cultures and it makes them better people, but there are probably smart ways to do it,” Griffis-Kyle said.

In some cases, however, reducing carbon footprint may not be as simple as it appears, Todd Anderson, professor of environmental toxicology, said. For instance, opting for a plastic cup instead of a paper cup does not necessarily result in reduction of carbon footprint.

Life-cycle analyses of products are necessary in order to determine the best approach to reducing carbon footprint, Anderson said.

“So, if you look at like a plastic cup, for example,

that you can reuse, there was energy required in order to make that cup,” he said. “And in some cases, it’s a lot more energy than to make a paper cup or a Styrofoam cup.”

Therefore, such a plastic cup may need to be reused hundreds of times in order to reduce the carbon footprint, Anderson said.

In order to AFFECT positive change, people must educate themselves before making decisions, Anderson said.

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cate yourself a little bit,” he said. “I think people should be informed on the decisions that they make as opposed to sort of making decisions in a vacuum” Reducing carbon footprint is important, because carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases, GriffisKyle said. Greenhouse gases form a “blanket” around the Earth’s surface that traps the heat from the sun. Ultimately, this results in global warming and climate change.

Climate change has

resulted in increased disease transmission, extreme weather events such as heat waves and other forms of undesirable consequences, Griffis-Kyle said.

“Reducing your carbon footprint and thinking about ways as a society that we can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases going into the environment are ways that we can make better lives for ourselves, for our families, for our friends,” she said. @sastryshashi_DT

Filling stations across campus work to alleviate waste

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

Many university departments across campus are working toward a common goal: to eventually replace all the older water fountains with new filling stations, which provide cold, filtered water.

There are many reasons for utilizing these filling stations, other than just for clean water. The first is sustainability, Melanie Tatum, unit assistant director of Sustainability and Warehouse Operations at Texas Tech, said.

“We are constantly trying to be more sustainable,” Tatum said, “so we just felt like if we put those in there, that’s one less bottle of water that

someone might buy.”

The Tech Recycling Center recycles around two to three tons of plastic bottles every three to four weeks, Tatum said, but as these stations have worked to refill upward of 40,000 bottles, the center has seen a decrease in the number of bottles brought in to be recycled.

Different university departments have worked to put these filling stations in all of Tech’s halls and buildings where they are possible, she said.

“It’s providing a convenience for our students,” Tatum said. “We are always trying to make things better for students, and students nowadays are looking to see what a university is doing to be green, and I think

that the more of those that are visible on campus, the better the perception is that something is being done on campus to be green.”

While the payback has been immense with the use of the filling stations across campus, Tatum said, cost is the only drawback. First, there is the initial cost of the fountain and the cost of the labor to install it.

Secondly, the station’s filters need to be changed anywhere from every three to every eight months. Finally, there is a price to pay with the proper disposal of the old style of water fountain, Gary Green, foreman for the Tech Plumbing Shop, said.

With departments all across campus requesting to have filling stations put into

their buildings and with those same departments willing to split the cost of the stations, this internal initiative to save money has taken off, Lonnie Evans, director for Building, Maintenance and Construction at Tech, said.

“I see a lot of people buying their own — YETIs or different types of coolers — they can just keep reusing those so they don’t have to use plastic bottles,” Rich Cartwright, operation supervisor for Building, Maintenance and Construction, said.

“On the environmental side, you’re not tossing those plastic bottles in the trash, I think that’s a good point all around.” @DTalexarosas

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Oil industry impacts environment

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

Driving into Lubbock County, it is hard to miss the oil wells scattering the fields.

The oil industry is a farreaching one which powers our lives, but not without an impact on the environment.

“It reaches everything,”

Mohamed Soliman, chair professor of the petroleum engineering department, said. “It is not only the gasoline you have in your car to drive, it generates electricity to heat your house because those power plants use gasoline, use some kind of hydrocarbon oil.”

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ronmental effects of oil come into play during the drilling process, Hossein Emadibaladehi, assistant professor of petroleum engineering, said.

For example, if a company is using oil based mud during drilling, and it is not properly handled on the ground, then it has the potential to contaminate the soil, he said, rendering the affected land useless for agricultural purposes.

Oil impacts the Earth throughout the entire drilling process, Mark Stoll, associate professor of history, said. From its transport, which risks an oil spill, much like the infamous BP oil spill that negatively impacted the wildlife and economy of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

At the end of the process, Stoll said, the burning of fossil fuels is the final form of environmental destruction brought on by oil, as it increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.

Then there is fracturing.

The process of fracturing itself, when handled correctly, is a relatively harmless process, Stoll said, but it is also a process that is

loosely regulated, especially in the state of Texas.

Today, companies are creating horizontal wells which require hundreds of fractures, Soliman said, while in the past smaller wells were created with one or two fractures.

With fracturing, there is a risk of pollution to our aquifers, Stoll said. Additionally, fracturing has been linked to numerous earthquakes in Oklahoma and northern Texas.

While fracturing is an issue that is hotly debated in political arenas today, it is not a matter of left wing or right wing, Soliman said, but a matter of being educated on the facts.

To explain, Soliman described bedrock as a sponge, where oil exists in the pores of the rock rather than in the form of a pool or a lake.

Fracturing is essentially the creation of artificial pipes that allow for oil flow, Emadibaladehi said.

“You can live a very nice lifestyle where you can travel and you can fly and you can do all of that,” Soliman said, “but you don’t pay a price or it. You have to frac-

ture. Will fracturing itself do anything? No, it doesn’t pollute anything.”

Without oil, Soliman said, life as we know it would be completely transformed into something of the distant past, but there are ways to improve the environment and still maintain the ways of living Americans have come to know, Stoll said.

“We assume that our demand is inflexible,” Stoll

said, “but actually since the energy is so cheap we tend to use a lot more of it than we would use if it was a little more expensive, so we assume that we have to keep the demand the same, then yeah, we have to produce lots and lots of energy, but if the demand were to go down or we become more efficient then we wouldn’t need so much [oil].” @DTalexarosas

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The dams — at 50 percent capacity — are classified as high risk only because they’re about two decades beyond their life expectancy and in a populated area, said Corps spokeswoman Sandra Arnold.

However, a Corps report

issued on the dams in 2012 offered more worrying criteria for the classification, noting that such structures are “critically near failure or at extremely high risk under normal operations.”

The National Weather Service issued flood warnings Wednesday evening for the fast-growing neighborhoods around the reservoirs behind the Addicks and Barker dams. The warnings were effective through Saturday afternoon. Water levels in the reservoirs are expected to crest this weekend

In the unlikely event that the dams collapse, downtown and the highly populated area in sprawling west Houston would likely see deaths as well as $60 billion in property damage, said Richard Long, a project operations managers with the Corps.

But the current conditions are no reason to panic, he added. Improvements done the last few years have shored up the 70-year-old structures and an ongoing $72 million construction project will greatly strengthen them.

“The dams are in good

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The monitoring of the dams comes as the Houstonarea deals with the effects of heavy rain — 18 inches in some spots — that walloped the area Sunday night and Monday. Creeks and streams getting runoff from the rain have continued to rise above their banks, prompting neighborhood flooding and additional evacuations on Wednesday by residents from homes and apartment complexes.

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Tech strives to have sustainable buildings

By DAVID GAY Staff Writer

Going green is an important aspect of any construction project, and taking environmentally friendly measures in a building can help maint a i n a s u s t a i n a b l e a tmosphere and help the people who work and live in that building.

Buildings at Texas Tech have implemented some sustainable measures to make sure the materials they use help the environment and the students using the building.

For the past seven years, the members of Housing Services have been working to make the residence halls as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible, Unit Assistant Director of Sustainability and Warehouse Operations for Housing Services Melanie Tatum, said.

Installing the refillable water stations, converting all the lights to LED and changing the cleaning products to more environmentally friendly ones are some of the ways the resi-

dence halls are becoming greener, Tatum said.

Mark McVay, associate director for Housing Facilities, said being environmentally friendly is the right thing to do, and it reduces the carbon footprint around campus.

Tatum said being greener helps the students in other ways as well.

“We are also creating a healthier environment for our students,” Tatum said.

“Being more environmentally friendly also keeps our utility rates down.

That helps the students not pay higher rates.”

Another way housing is being more green is by encouraging recycling in all the residence halls, Tatum said. The residence halls use 100 percent recycled paper for their paper towels.

During move-in weekend, she said, is when most of the campus recycling occurs.

“The majority of our trash on move-in weekend is cardboard,” Tatum said. “In our first year, we collected 12 tons. We started recycling plastic after that. Last year, we collected around 400 tons

of recycled plastic. We add something to our recycling every year.”

In construction of new buildings, Tech is using the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification to help the new construction products be more sustainable, Michael Molina, chief architect and vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction, said.

When Molina joined the Tech System six years ago, there was not a program that focused on sustainable design for buildings, he said.

“When I came on board, I had some experience with that, and moving forward, it was a critical thing to implement in all of our building solutions,” Molina said. “Every project that comes to the docket, we always start with every project being LEED certified as a start off.”

If someone wants to get a LEED certification for a building, it involves making sustainable measures for everything, including the structure of the building, windows, air conditioning and lights, Mcvay said. The materials

they use for parts of the building like the carpet and the walls also have to be recyclable.

“It’s not cutting out everything,” McVay said. “It’s just being more efficient about what you do.”

Now that all buildings are being designed around LEED principles, Molina said there is a significant decrease in energy consumption in the new buildings, including one of the

new projects, West Village.

“West Village is over 25 to 30 percent cost energy savings per year,” Molina said. “The 30 percent decrease in energy consumption helps lower our carbon footprint on a global scale.”

Molina said the Facilities Planning and Construction is not designing buildings to be LEED certified just because it is a trend. It wants to make sure it is creating a safe

environment for all of the students, faculty and staff.

But, Molina said, the sustainable market will continue to become more and more popular among different architects.

“The sustainable market, from products to sustainable design, are trending that way,” Molina said. “Over time, these are going to be commonplace decisions.” @DavidGayDT

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Student organization works to clean up environment

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

During game days in football season, the Texas Tech campus is alive and buzzing with spirit as everyone heads to Jones AT&T Stadium to enjoy the game featuring the Red Raiders.

After the game is over, however, many of the fans leave trash behind in the stadium and do not give a second thought to what will become of it.

Cleaning up the stadium is a daunting task, but the Texas Tech Clean Up the Environment Club is up for the task. “(CUTE) is mainly about cleaning up the environment and taking care of

all the trash left around on football game days or the day after,” G’Derrick Tabe, a junior industrial engineering major from Fort Worth and committee member, said.

You want to make sure that we have a planet for as long as we can.

ALYSSA GROVER STUDENT CUTE tries to have a campus cleanup event at least once a month to keep the Tech campus looking beautiful, Tabe said.

“You get to see how much trash is left around cam-

pus,” Tabe said. “As a student you don’t really see, but actually having to pick up the trash you see how much work it is.”

Other than campus cleanups, CUTE also works to teach fellow students about sustainability with fun events.

“Sustainability Night was probably my favorite CUTE Club event because we’ve never done anything like that before,” Alyssa Glover, a sophomore multidisciplinary studies major from Katy and chair of CUTE Club, said.

As a part of sustainability month, CUTE Club teamed up with Housing Sustainability to have a screening of “The Lorax,” a stadium cleanup and Sus-

tainability Night.

“We had sustainability jeopardy, we let students pot their own plants and we had a laptop set up for students to calculate their carbon footprint,” Glover said, “which is really shocking if you have never done it before.”

Another big event the CUTE Club is part of is RecycleMania, a nationwide recycling competition where Tech competes against 300 other universities to recycle the most items every year.

“In high school I was a part of a green club, and during that time we did a lot of events, for example, RecycleMania,” Destiny Arthur, a freshman psychology major

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Earth Day promotes action to protect environment

By RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

Earth Day, which takes place Friday, continues to be a day to spread awareness about current environmental issues and ask people to take action all over the world.

U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, who wanted to bring more awareness to the issues affecting the environment, first established Earth Day in the year 1970, according to earthday.org. He saw the era he was living in, the 1970s, as a time of air pollution, lead gas, oil spills and no call for environmental protection.

Nelson decided to take action and call upon 20 million people to participate in nationwide rallies to promote a better plan of action to protect and conserve the environment.

“It’s always been about, in some sense, the environmental problems which we see.

Of course, that changes from decade to decade,” Mark Stoll, professor and director of environmental studies for the history department at Texas Tech, said. “It was originally going to be just sort of a teach-in at universities about the environment, kind of an educational thing, but it spread to be community involved, and everything from picking up garbage to organizing recycling, which

was really new in 1970.”

Stoll has been studying and teaching about the environment, its changes and the history of human interaction with the environment, including physical changes and extinction, he said. Many of the issues that began to affect the environment in the 1970s still affect the environment today and have even worsened.

“We still have pretty bad air pollution and water pollution.

Today, I think we’re probably more concerned, especially about global warming — that’s probably the No. 1 issue,” Stoll said. “If we didn’t have air pollution, we probably wouldn’t have global warming. It’s been put back on the front burner.”

Stoll said he fears climate change is increasing at such a rapid rate because of the effects of global warming because of humans’ excess of burning fossil fuels. Scientists have been shocked by the rapid increase and could have never predicted things like it in their worst nightmares, he said.

“Hurricanes are getting worse, getting stronger, and this flooding down in Houston, we’ve always had floods and Houston’s always flooded, but we’re getting these flood events worse and more often, so this is what’s really becoming alarming,” he said.

He believes large companies

like Exxon have paid millions of dollars to campaign that global warming is not happening and it is all just mass hysteria, he said, in order to keep themselves in business and not denounce their public appearance.

Earth Day has some sort of value, otherwise people would not still be celebrating it, he said, but it has definitely lost much of the impact it once had.

“Every little bit that anybody does helps,” Michelle Logan, founder of lubbockforkids. com, said. “If you help our little hemisphere in Lubbock, it’s just a chain reaction and the impact is enormous.”

Logan created lubbockforkids.com as a website for parents to find fun and friendly events and activities to which to take their kids.

Although there are no specific Earth Day events on Friday, Logan said there are several environmentally friendly events on Saturday in the spirit of conservation.

“This is the third year for the Water Expo, which continues to educate the public about water in the region and its declining availability. With this knowledge, people have a better understanding of how they can stop water waste and reduce their overall water footprint,” David Cooper, Wolfforth city councilman, said in a news release.

The Water Expo is a great way to not only teach people about how to conserve water, but more importantly teach kids, who are the future generation, they can make an impact in helping the world around them, Logan said.

“It’s getting more important to me every day because I see the impact of the environment on our kids, and I’m thinking about our kid’s kids and the future generation,” she said.

“I think it’s hard for those little ones to understand that they do have a lot of power, they have a lot of power in their

hands to turn off that water when they brush their teeth, little things like that empowers the children to be leaders even within their peer group.”

Earth Day is still celebrated annually and all over the world, and there are many ways someone can get involved.

There are nature activist groups everywhere people can join, and students who want to make a difference not only in the community, but also on campus, have many opportunities available to them.

Students can participate in things like the Residence

Halls Association Recycling Wars, which promote more recycling in all departments across campus, groups like Red Raider Recyclers, who recycle boxes on move-in day, and organizations like the CUTE Club that promote a greener college campus.

For those students who wish to participate in events to help the environment, the CUTE Club will be having a Campus Cleanup on Friday, and students can plant on campus during Arbor Day on April 29. @RyanOrtegonDT

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Annual Arbor Day planting scheduled for April 29

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

The annual planting event Arbor Day, hosted by the Tech Activities Board for Eco Week, is going to take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 29 at Memorial Circle. On this day, Texas Tech faculty, staff and students work together to bring a fresh spring spirit to the Tech campus and bond as a community.

More than 2,000 people

have registered for this year’s Arbor Day, according to the TAB website, and they are ready to get their hands dirty and help plant at various plots across the Tech campus.

There will be free food, T-shirts and live music performed by Cas Haley to kick off the event, according to the TAB website, and at 1:20 p.m., the planting will begin.

Gabriella Gamez, a senior management major from Dallas and TAB vice president of

recruitment and retention, said she hopes Arbor Day brings unity within Tech and spreads awareness of ways people can help preserve the planet.

“I believe that the purpose of this event is to bring our campus together to give back to Texas Tech and help enrich its beauty,” she said. “I am very amazed by the powerful impact that this tradition had on students. Every year they have become more conscious about the eco-friendly initia-

tives they can take in order to protect the environment.”

Last year the event was successful and people enjoyed it, Gamez said, despite the bad weather.

“It got a little crazy because of the rain, but we had a rainout location so everything still went on as planned, just in a dryer location,” Gamez said.

Ejike Uzoije, a sophomore petroleum engineering major from Suwanee, Georgia, said he thinks Arbor Day is a great

opportunity to represent his organization, the International Student Council.

“It is a very crucial time for us with our biggest event of the semester being the next day, we still wanted to show our passion for helping out Texas Tech,” he said. “In planting, we are symbolically showing what we do as an organization. We sow seeds of hard work, so we can reap the benefits in the future.”

Arbor Day is part of Eco Week, which will have a

variety of events Monday through April 29, including a recycling competition and a campus cleanup.

Although he is very excited about the food, music and games, Uzoije said his favorite part of Arbor Day is the planting.

“My joy comes from planting,” he said. “I love that we get to do something good for the planet while we also learn to collaborate in teams.” @DailyToreador