. 1- Seven Inducted
Editor’s Platter: Christmas And Recycling
OR: How
Martha
Stewart
makes those
wonderful
wreaths...
Lately, I’ve been
wondering why I’ve
heard so many com
plaints about S.A. stu
dents and their prob
lems with recycling.
Why aren’t we, a
community of obvi
ously intelligent indi
viduals, capable of
throwing a can/plastic bottle into
a stupid little blue container?
How much energy does it take,
when confronted with the
choice, to drop a recyclable into
a blue container instead of the
trash can? I’m led, therefore, to
believe that many are just ex
tremely confused. Both the re
cycling bins and the trash cans
fall into the blue spectrum—
which may cause problems for
our more challenged individuals.
However, I must applaud those
few who, in their confusion,
leave their recycling on the edge
of the trash can. Let me take this
opportunity to clear up any ques
tions people may have about
which receptacle is which.
1) The recycling bin is a
royal bordering on nice plain
crayola blue color. It is rectan
gular in shape and stands about
1.5 feet off the floor. Oftentimes
it has a clear plastic bag lining
it. They can be found next to the
trash receptacles in L.A. and
M.J., outside of every suite
lounge in flat dorms and inside
This is a recent photograph of a recycling bin resting m
the circle (the area to which the recycling fairy moves
them for a Wednesday pick-up).
recvcline (something we don’t
have to do) and causes problems
when these poor workers find
dead chickens, beer cases, snot
rags and other bits of disgusting
rubbish in the bins.
2) Trash cans can be distinguished
by their height. They are much
taller than the recycling bins. In
L.A. they are square and light
blue. In other buildings they are
round, plastic apperati. House
keeping and Physical Plant gather
the rubbish from the trash bins and
somehow it makes it to the nice
landfill, where we never have to
see it again, for now. DO NOT
PUT RECYCLING, particularly
aluminum, IN THE TRASH
CANS. North Carolina Law states
that you have to recycle aluminum
or face a $25 fine. Also, be fore
warned that the maids do not take
out your recycling (for those
dorms who seem to believe that
the recycling fairy removes your
muck to the circle every Tuesday
night).
Everyone forgets once in a
while to recycle. Occassionally,
those who are supposed to take
out the recycling
bins simply for
get. That’s o.k.
(not really, but
we’re humans
and therefore im
perfect) but let’s
not make a habit
of stockpiling.
I recently
talked to Chris
Ferner and
Michelle
Loiselle, the
Godmothers of
Eco-Action. I
asked them if per
haps this confu
sion was the root
of the recycling problem. While
in agreement, they had also heard
from members of one of the male
dorm communities, that it was a
lack of motivation that prevented
their recycling bins from travers
ing down the dorm stairs and out
to the circle every week. Hearsay
stated that they were just “lazy.”
Members of a similar community
were quoted as saying that their
mothers hadn’t recycled and
therefore the progeny had no need
to recycle as well. How sad that
as a member of the next genera
tion, we are not able to see the
foibles of our parents and recog
nize them as merely icons of an
outdated time...
Of course we’ll forget these
important rules of recycling as the
Christmas Holidays slowly eradi
cate all of the good (and bad) hab
its formed while we’re away at
college. But hopefully a few will
take the message with them
throughout the new year. Have a
great break, everybody. Relax,
rest, recuperate, and drink lots of
egg nog. Happy Holidays and a
very Merry New Year!
Seven students were recently
inducted into the Alpha Chi honor
society. They were: Claire
Daniella Brown, Mary Rebekah
Cox, Sara Margaret Eaton,
Michelle Loiselle, Eva Christine
Pietsch, Meke Michelle Reese
and Elizabeth Suzaime Woodard.
Alpha Chi is a national honor
society of college and university
juniors and seniors who meet the
highest standards of scholarship
and character. To qualify for the
Fall 1995 induction, the student
was required to have a 3.8 GPA,
junior year, and 3.75 GPA senior
year.
Current Alpha Chi members
include Charity Boyles, president;
Georgia Haynes, vice-president;
Kim Ribaudo, secretary; Lewis
Beatty, treasurer; Allison Corley;
Susie Evans; Stephen Grimsley;
Laura Heintschel; Jennie Mayo;
Terra McVoy; Kellam Parks;
Melanie Powell; Kris Swain and
Brian Schulz.
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