Articles Tagged ‘ Green Campus ’
Students Support Referendum to Raise Fees for Green Projects
By Lara Southgate, Editor-in-chief
During the SGA elections, which ran from Apr. 13-16, students voted on a referendum to raise their Student Government Association (SGA) fees $10 so that the SGA can fund green/sustainable initiatives on campus via a revolving loan. SGA Parliamentarian Louis Ritzinger said that with just over 30 percent voter turnout, the referendum passed “overwhelmingly.”
The idea [...]
Student Chronicles A Day in the Life of the Campus Farm
Right off of Route 5, immediate South of Rosecroft Rd., lies a beige-brown house that is about as inconspicuous as one can imagine. Next to that house is a little plot of land that used to look just as unremarkable. Recently, however, it has experienced a transformation with the dedication and hard work of the [...]
(Read More)SGA to Start Green Revolving Fund
By Rowan Copley
A new bill passed by the Student Government Association (SGA) will allocate roughly $100,000 to a new fund for creating or implementing sustainable, energy-saving technologies and systems on campus. The bill, presented to the SGA by Matt Foerster, Lisa Neu, Danielle Doubt, Becky White, and SGA President Justin Perry, will create a fund for projects [...]
(Read More)SMC Gets Serious About Organic Farming
Great strides are already being made on an ambitious new campus farm project, which promises to change the way students look at agriculture and food consumption.
(Read More)Campus Blacks Out for Earth Hour
By Amanda Zelaya, Arts & Entertainment Editor
On Saturday, Mar. 27, St. Mary’s students gathered for an hour and turned off all of their lights and electronics in honor of the energy conservation movement, Earth Hour.
(Read More)Students Go against the Flow to Take Back the Tap
By Lara Southgate, Editor-in-chief
This semester, the students of St. Mary’s Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) are running the “Take Back the Tap” campaign in order to raise awareness about the problems associated with bottled water.
(Read More)Students Plant ‘Smoking Hot Sycamores’ and Other Trees around Campus Paths
If there’s one thing that can be said of St. Mary’s students, it’s that we don’t lack concern for the environment. While the rest of the community was huddled inside early Saturday morning avoiding the cold, rainy weather, about 15 students met at the Campus Center to take action and support the environment by getting [...]
(Read More)Earth Day Fair Educates Students
By Peter Sparklin, Sports Editor
Despite the overcast and sporadically rainy weather, students gathered last week to celebrate their home, Earth. The Earth Day Fair, sponsored by the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), the Sustainability Committee, EcoHouse, and the St. Mary’s River Project, sought to teach passersby how to live in a sustainable manner and ways to promote environmental change.
Using [...]
Students Save Endangered Trees
By Amanda Zelaya, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Several weekends ago St. Mary’s students in conjunction with Historic St. Mary’s planted chestnut trees on Mattpany Road, behind the Artist house.
“The American Chestnut tree was one of the most indigenous trees in the American forest. Sometime in the 20th century a blight was introduced–a fungus that kills the trees,” said junior Kyle Wichtendahl, who [...]
Usage of Solar Panels to Cut Energy Costs
One reason St. Mary’s is not your run of the mill school is that students have a real say in a lot of the decision making that goes on (depending on the area of course).
In the past year alone, amongst other initiatives, students have spearheaded movements to change the controversial “protest policy” in “To The [...]
