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February 20,2002
NPR’s Edwards talks
politics at convocation
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Volume XVIII, Issue4^| ^
□ National Public
Radio’s most
popular morning
host shows up for
Founder's Day.
Christina Holder
EcNior In Chlet
The host of one of the
nation's leading programs in
public radio said that
journalists today have only
Iheinselves to blame for the
deterioration of the profession
at the annual convocation on
Monday honoring the
founders of the College.
Bob Edwards of National
Public Radio’s Morning
Edition—^ show that reels in
8.9 million listeners every
week—spoke on current
political events and the
respK>nsibiliiies of the media.
His specch did not follow a
structure that many audience
members had anticipated, but
instead it gave members an
opportunity to engage in his
political topics—making them
feel more like callers on his
show.
Having worked in
broadcast journalism his
entire life and conducted over
800 interviews for Morning
NPR host Bob Edwards talks about the downfall of
journalism at Founder's Day Convocation in Jones on
Monday.
Photo Couhtesv of Steve Wilson
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Rabid fox on campus?
□ Police and
Animal Control
traipsed campus last
night in search of
fox.
Jamie Tunnell
News Editor
On Monday, a potentially
rabid fox was sighted by
several Meredith students near
Math and
science building
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the back gate of campus,
according to Campus Police.
Campus Officers William
Moore and Tracey Stevenson
investigated the scene accord
ing to Officer Wendy Honey
cutt.
Honeycutt said that the fox's
behavior was unusually
aggressive.
When officers approached
the fox, it was “coughing like a
cat—with a hairball,” Honey
cutt said.
The officers speculated the
fox had rabies and called
Animal Control.
Three Animal Control offi-
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Recycling
program to begin
in two weeks
□ Area colleges
are calling Meredith
for advice on how to
build recycling
program.
Jamie TuNNtxi.
Newrs Editor
Last semester, the Herald
featured recycling tips each
week for students from Dr.
Carol Hazard’s Environmental
Resources class.
What started as the planning
stages for a recycling program
for the College succeeded and
earned a $10,000 grant from
Solid Waste Management of
Wake County and laid the
groundwork for a recycling
program that will start within
the next few weeks.
“As soon as the bins get
here, this recycling program
will get started," Hazard said.
There will be bins in
individual rooms, outside of
dorms, and outside of the Cate
Center.
Work-study positions in
recycling are available. People
are needed to empty out bottles
and take out the biodegradable
bags to the bins outside. “It
will pay more than the regular
on-campus jobs.” she said.
Another stem off from this
program is the composting
process that will start. Belk
Dining Hall will start compost
ing their scraps and sending
them off-campus to a farm in
Orange County.
This is a program that Duke
University has been participat
ing in for years. Also, the
Nutrition department will have
a demonstration compost bin
and will dump their scraps on
campus to have compost for
NTHE INSIDE:
fy
flowerbeds.
Community service and ser
vice learning are becoming cru
cial parts of college curriculum.
The new general education
model that has been adopted for
Meredith includes hours need
ed for graduation.
Wake County charges a lip
ping fee per ton of trash that is
dumped into landfills-.^eredith
sends 17.5 tons of waste mater
ial per month to the landfill.
The tipping fee is $30 per
ton, which adds up to almost
$4500 per year. The bad news
is that this fee is going to dou
ble very soon, making the new
program right on lime. ‘The
more we reduce our waste, the
less the bill for trash,” she said,
“and that will save big money
in the long run.”
“Meredith is taking a leader
ship role for future recycling
programs at surrounding
schools,” Hazard said.
Peace College, Shaw Uni
versity, and St. Augustine's
College all have contacted
Meredith to find out how to
implement programs of their
own.
The eight students in the
Environmental Resources class
interviewed significant campus
personnel, surveyed students,
conducted a pilot study, and
filmed 15-second commercials
promoting recycling- In
November, Hazard submitted
an abstract of the program to
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
“Not every abstract submit
ted was accepted," Hazard said.
But they were lucky and were
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