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i^enior Year Reflections Caitlin Griffin, Staff Writer IIyou knowiTie at all, you know that I’m a procrastinator and that one of the areas of life that l have been most proudly procrastinating lately is ap|ilying to graduate schQol. Last week, however, I made a drastic decision to stop listeningto the smug, critical voice in my head in favor of spending a |ew minutes in the company of a recruiter from the University of South Carolina School of Social Work. We made small talk at first about my hob bies, 'interests, and experiences, buf eventually we had to discuss the real reason I was standing at her table staring starry-eyed at the diverse array* of koozies, cups, pens,*’and pamphlets. I decided to challenge her b5*"explain- ing my strong opinion on the subject ofVaiting a year or so before attending „ ’graduate school and began listing off rny many reasons, until she stopped ^'^'Uie mid-selitence and Asked, “So what’s your GPA, Ms. Griffin? You might * bbrelayed to hear tliat your entire application will be considered, regard less wliether^our cumulative average falls below our suggested 3.0.” Oh, no..,had I really just made that poor young woman believe |hat I ■ refused to apply to graduate school b&ause I was nei-vous about my GPA? In'truth, it’s one of the application assets pf which I am most proud, and I tc^d her so! Likewise, I am confident in my ability to whip'up an excellent narrative personal statement within a week. Yet embarrassingly enough, it’s the'Graduate Record .Examination (GRE) that terrifies me. Yes, I admit it— my histoiy with standardized tesfe has been uniiiiaginably grim, so much sd that my phobia surrounding that particular test has successfully keppme \ from applying to gi^duatc^school, even “just because.’’ So iinagine my ^de light when the next #ordwut of the recruiter’s mouth were, “But you don’t need the GRE to apply to OUR program!’'’..x.Say whaaaaat?!? , Here’s the short-and-sweet lesson learned: When considering whether to apply fo fraduate school, keep in mind that some people within specific disciplines at certain schools do not agree that the GRE iS an adequate predictive factor of post-|raduate success. Whew! They might not.be the schools with the’highest national rankings, but consider whether rank really even matters in your future field of interest. The recruiter from USC, bless her soul, enthusiastically informed me that her School would easily reward . me an assistantship just based on a high GPA^ a convincing persoilalTiarrA- tivc, and strong letters of recommendation. Similarly., I heard on good faith that at least one othqr MSW program could offer ipe an even-better finan- . cial package. At that particulap^School, I could possibly pursue a two-year Masters degree for free! v " Now, does any of this infoi'ination change my mih|l about applying last minute in preparation to begin a full-time program in the fall? My heart is still set on international sights, but it’i nice to know I have options. Campus Elections Results Elections Board would like to congratulate the following students on their newly elected position. Campus Wide SGA President: Jennifer Prince SGA Vice-President/Senate Chair: Allison Meares SGA Treasurer: OPEN SGA Secretary: Sara McLaughlin Honor Council Chair: Elizabeth Warren Student Life Chair: Jade Rice Elections Board Chair: OPEN AMC President: Pooja Ghai AMC Vice-President: Desiree Jones RHA Chair: OPEN RHA Vice-Chair: OPEN WINGS President: OPEN WINGS Vice-President: OPEN Unity Council Chair: OPEN Unity Council Vice-Chair: Onisha Walker MCA President: OPEN MCA Vice-President: OPEN MEA President: OPEN MEA Vice-President: OPEN, MRA President: OPEN MRA Vice-President: OPEN CAB Chair: Apiffany Gaither Review Board Members (5): Onisha Walker Class of 2012 President: Sarah Murray Vice-President: OPEN Treasurer: Carrie Sanderson Secretary: OPEN Historian: Emily Pappas Cornhuskin’ Co-Chairs: OPEN Stunt Co-Chairs: OPEN Honor Council Reps (2): OPEN Elections Board Reps (3): OPEN Senators (3): Chanell McCain Student Life Reps (3): OPEN Class of 2013 President: Michelle Cox Vice-President: Kelsey Suther Treasurer: Kristin Kirby Secretary: Angela Lyons Historian: Maria Adonay Cornhuskin’ Co-Chairs: Anna Barefoot and Christina Cole Stunt Co-Chairs: OPEN Honor Council Reps (2): OPEN Elections Board Reps (3): OPEN Senators (3): Pooja Ghai and Hope Robert son Student Life Reps (3): OPEN Class of 2014 President: Melissa Gornto Vice-President; Yailyn Polanco Treasurer: Lacy Pfeiffer Secretary: OPEN Historian: OPEN Cornhuskin’ Co-Chairs: Lorri Cole and Bryana Bass Stunt Co-Chairs: OPEN Honor Council Reps (2): OPEN Elections Board Reps (3): OPEN Senators (3): Mollie Schrull and Whitney Williams Student Life Reps (3); Grace Maddrey To apply for any open position, please stop by the Office of Student Leadership and Service to pick up an application. All appli cations are due by March 15. Interviews will take place the week of March 25. Waste Audit Prompts Recycling Programs Emily Gamiel, Staff Writer On Wednesday, February 23, 2011, the third annual Meredith College Waste Audit will take place on campus in the courtyard between Vann and Stringfield residence halls. 10% of the daily waste will be sifted through by Laura Fieselman, Sustainability Coor dinator at Meredith, and other student and faculty volunteers. Fieselman said, “The point of the whole thing is to look through the trash and see what in there could have, and should have, been recycled.” Fieselman went on to explain the process of the waste audit by saying, “We’ll collect a random sam pling of trash from all over campus—some from residence halls, some from classroom buildings, some from office buildings.” The volun teers will then record, by category, the items found in the wastes that are recy clable. The information collected from this audit vrtll help structure the waste ^^thinkgreen practices at the college, which, in turn, will contribute to the organization of the recycling programs across campus. The recycling programs are designed to reduce the amount of waste that could have been recycled by using dif ferent tactics to accomplish that goal. The results from last January’s audit triggered the Pilot Program that is currently taking place in Joyner. The audit showed that 15% of the waste was office paper, 5% was #1 and #2 plastic bottles and 7% was mixed paper; all items that may have been recycled. 7% of the waste audited was disposable containers, which, accord- at Meredith “s'h'Kesei- man, are things that could have been avoided.” An individual’s choice to bring his or her own thermos or plastic tumbler to places such as the dining hall, the Bee Hive, and even Starbucks, would reduce this amount. The Pilot Project is forecasted to reduce the amount of the materials that are inescapable, such as paper. The program taking place in Joyner is organized and based off of research that Fiesel man and other sustainabil ity advocates collected. The coordinator of the program noted that “what we found, in general, across campus is that usually a classroom or an office has a trashcan, and then the recycling bin is somewhere down the hall and it’s annoy ing to walk down the hall to throw away the recycling when the trash is right there.” As many students have noticed in Joyner, there are no longer waste baskets in each classrooms as there have been in the past but instead waste stations placed throughout the building that include a trash can and recycling bins for paper, aluminum, and plastic. Fieselman explained the reorganization of bins by saying, “All of the research shows that people are much more likely to recycle effectively. or correctly, when the two are paired together.” In this year’s waste audit, things will be con ducted a little differ ently because of the proj ect in Joyner. Fiesel man said, “We will try to audit the Joyner trash separately from the rest of campus to see how the pilot project is affecting trash over there.” If the program proves to earn credibility, more waste stations may show up around campus. Fiesel man added, “In an ideal world, nothing that’s recyclable would be in the trash,” and the goal of the sustainability efforts around campus is attempting to achieve that ideal. “In an ideal world, nothing that’s recyclable would be in the trash” -Laura Fieselman, Sustainability Coordinator
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