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Vol. 106, NO. 70 UATRAV.COM
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012
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Project Clean Plate to Reduce Dining Hall Waste by JANNEE SULLIVAN Staff Writer
Officials at Chartwells Dining Services and the Office of Sustainability are instituting Project Clean Plate, a sustainability movement which will run from Feb. 6 to Feb. 16. The project follows a year in which the UA sent approximately 240 metric tons of food waste to landfills. Students can always go back for seconds if they are still hungry, but they should be more mindful of how much they put on their
plates, said Kim Johnson, Chartwells marketing director. “The best description of it would be that it’s an informal buzz campaign,” Johnson said. “Student volunteers will be intercepting students in the dining halls, during dinner hours and talking to them about being more mindful of the food they waste.” To raise awareness on campus, officials will offer the chance to win one of two free Kindles through a raffle. Winners will be chosen at the end of each week,
Johnson said. Food waste is an issue Chartwells officials have tried to address for four years, Johnson said. UA officials made a “gigantic stride” in reducing food waste when Chartwells officials stopped providing trays in the dining halls four years ago, Johnson said. This campaign seeks to reduce that waste even further. Approximately one in six Arkansans live below the poverty line and struggle to provide enough food for
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Project Clean Plate is a conservation effort executed by Chartwells dining services. Students are encouraged to waste as little food as possible by being more intentional with the amount of food they put on their plate.
This past weekend the Facebook page UARK Memes generated more than 1,500 ‘likes’ from UA students.
Black Students Association UAPD Program To Retrieve Stolen Items Perform for Historical Fashion Show by AMANDA POGUE Staff Writer
by SARAH DEROUEN Staff Writer
The Black Students Association presented a fashion show Thursday as a part of a celebration of Black History Month. The fashion show featured prominent blacks throughout history, with students dressing as everyone from Charles Hamilton Houston to Malcolm X. The finale featured President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. “All the amazing figures that we have seen tonight makes us wonder who of these people that are sitting here today might be the next ones that we’re talking about,” said Stacee Lambey, who moderated the show with Marteze Hammonds. “It just makes us sit back and wonder, ‘What are we doing to make a change in our world today?’” Lambey said. The show featured different forms of art from a range of decades, including a reading of a
poem by Langston Hughes, a gospel performance, a swing dance and a contemporary dance. BSA president Raven Cook, an African American studies major, said that it is very important for students to participate in Black History Month. “If you are an African-American or just anyone in general, you must come to a Black History Month program. There is no excuse why you shouldn’t celebrate your history,” Cook said. Black History Month started as a week-long celebration in 1925 called Negro History Week, but was extended in 1976 to the month-long event with which most Americans are familiar, according to the Library of Congress. “Seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history,” said President Gerald R. Ford, according to the Library of Congress.
The University of Arkansas Police Department officers premiered a program designed to help people retrieve stolen merchandise, officials said. LeadsOnline is a national program used by law enforcement agencies to record data on personal property, said UAPD Lt. Gary Crain.
“The program is simple to use and open to everyone. You simply go onto the website, sign up and enter your information. The program asks for serial numbers, descriptions and photographs of your property. The service is completely confidential and is not accessible even by law enforcement agencies,” Crain said. “The information is password protected and accessible only by the person who submitted it,” he said.
The purpose of the service is to give people a database to collect all of their information and keep it in one place, Crain said. “If something is stolen, they can then retrieve their information and give it to the police. That way we can enter it into a database and find it if it’s sold,” he said.
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FROM LEFT: Kesha Boyles, Brittany Rogers-Means, Ashyle Horton, Camilla Harris and Addie Danielle perform at a fashion show Thursday.
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