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OCTOBER28,2004- Page 3 News Environmental action club pitches in to recycle ROB GOEKE During the first part of conscientious students on General campus uncer- cycle. NEWSEDJroR the fall semester, recycling our campus. Student aware- tainty about whether recy- "Recycling saves the col- has improved. ness about recyclinghas to in- cling actually still exists. and legemoney.Thecompany takes Your can of soda is fin- "The new generation of crease on campus so that a Wilde and the Environmen- away all recyclable items for ished. The trash room is right students, for whatever rea- few students don't ruin the tal Action Club is doing all free. Over the year, this saves down the hall. You go in, and son, isrecyclingmore. Weput effort of many." that they can to change this. McDaniel anywhere from see a multitude of colors. You the containers there and as Wilde along with co- "Many students are $1200to $1500,"said Whelan. want to recycle the can. Where long as the students do not president MichelleRunaldue, skeptical about whether The Environmental Ac- does it go? spill soda or leave pizza a junior, has started a com- these items are actually being tion Club has also started ef- The Physical Plant as well boxes on top of them, it is re- mittee to increase student recycled and we hope to help forts to begin recycling ink car- as the Environmental Action cyclable," said Whelan. awareness of recycling on rectify the situation, increase tridges from computer printers. Club are working together to One of the biggest prob- campus. awareness, and thereby in- The organization plans to use increase recycling in the dorms lems for the recycling pro- ."The campus goes crease overall recycling on this as a fund raiser. But much and around campus. gram is contamination of the through so many bottles and campus," said Wilde. works needs to be done. "We want to make recy- recycling receptacles by stu- papers that, after awhile, it Whelan mentioned that "Wehave not made much cling easier "forstudents. We dents in the residence halls. starts to add up," said McDaniel has economic in- progress in that effort thus far," want to make it more avail- Students would often Runaldue. - centive .toget students to re- said Runaldue. able," said [en Wollenweber, throw non-recyclableitems in faculty adviser to the Environ- the recycling cans and main- Action club at a glance mental Action Club. tenance workers would not According to Mel sift through the cans of Whelan, the Building Services refuse. Thus, recyclableitems -STACEY SHAFFER, STAFF WRITER Coordinator at McDaniel, for would be sent to the landfills. Camping, canoeing. hiking, and kayaking. These are some benefits oj being a member of tile Environ- eight years, a section at the be- "The only reason that mental Action Club. it's a group of students unth concerns about tile environment, and especially enoiron- ginning of the student hand- recyclableswould get thrown mental iss lies 011 campus. book has listed the locations away is if students contami- The club was started in 2002 and about 20 members meet evenjother Thursday. Dr. Jennie Wollenweber, and ways students can recycle nate the recyclebin by throw- an adiunci lecturer for the English Department, advises the club. on campus. Located on page 13 ing in things that are not re- "We have a lot of momentum and will accomplish a lot this semester," said co-president junior Becky of the handbook, a section titled cyclable," said junior Becky Wilde. Besides tile recreational activities, the group i.s also involved inprojects such as Adopt a Highway, "Recycling" describes the Wilde,co-president of the En- tree planting, and trail restoration. college's effortsto recyclepaper vironmental Action Club. "I'm really excited about how mucu ollr club has grown," said co-president Michelle Runoidne, also and aluminum as well as men- "This happens quite often a junior. lilt's great that we can allilave fun and make a difference together." tioning the color of recycling and plays a major role in ru- Last Friday, the group ventured to Pocomoke River State Forest and Park ill Wprcester Countu to cans in the residence halls. ining the efforts of the many camp and to participate in Fright Night. continued from page 1 doubt, a young man with di- read "In Joey's Honor" to en- and prayers at this time and we rection and vision who holds courage students to show are hoping for the best," base- the world at his feet...Welook their support for him by giv- ball coach Dave Seibert said in forward to his complete re- ing their own blood a statement. .covery and return to the The Red Cross has a "Joey Morningstar is one McDaniel community. Our policy against earmarking of the finest young men that I prayers are with Joey and his donations for certain pa- have ever met," Major Brian family." tients, but the goal of the Feser,Battalion Commander of Joey's fellow Cadets drive came to be replenishing the ROTC, said in a written view him in much the same the blood supply for future statement. "He without a light. patients. "He isalways willing to "It gave McDaniel stu- do anything," Cadet Jacob dents the opportunity to do Michael, Battalion Com- something after finding out mander, said. "You want to that one of their own had Small signs were added to the Blood Drive reminders, informing students of say,as far as ROTCgoes, that been hurt," graduate student Morningstar's situation everybody is like that; but at Katharine Strong said. .by the end of the day, far sur- fore, but she decided that this the same time, everybody's Workers were still passing the original goal of time was better than any to not ...He's going to be missed drawing blood by 7:00when 70. start. this semester." the last scheduled appoint- Of the 93 donors on "He had my blood type," The blood drive had ments were at 4:30. Accord- Wednesday, 30 were taking she said. "T thought even been planned prior to Joey's ing to Operations Supervisor the needle for the first time. though it won't go directly to accident, but signs were Kevin Klunk, 81 pints of us- Sophomore Kaitlin McLean him, it could still help." MORNINGSTAR posted on Wednesday which able blood were accumulated had never given blood be- Enrollment dip leads to 'invisible' budget cuts continued from page 1 The 24 academic de- reduce your ~udget.II' were hired. O'Connell also explained • end of last year that enrollment partments and other offices Orza said that she con- "In the first semester that last year was unusual for might not be as high as ex- including the Registrar and suited with other depart- we had to eliminate several collegeadmissions nationwide. peered,and inJuly each depart- Student Academic Support ments. staff and faculty and planned sectionsof ENG1101 "More students applied ment chair received a letter re- Serviceswere eventually also revi~wed past budgets before and some of the sections of and to a larger number of col- questing that spending be con- asked in a letter from Provost makmg any decisions. She that course were smaller than leges, more colleges placed-stu- fined to essential items due to Thomas Falkner to contribute I made small cuts from several usual," said Panek. "This, dents on wait-lists and a larger possible budget adjustments. to cuts. categories, including mailing, however, was more ofa bless- number of private colleges of- "We wanted to err on the "I found it [making duplication and professional ing than a curse for both fac- fered merit based awards to at- side of not having a problem cuts] difficult, but I appreci- development membership. ulty and students." tract students," O'Connell said. rather than coming to the end ated the factthat TomFalkner "The cuts we made Multiple causes for the "The result of this activity made of the year and whoops we didn't make two percent cuts were very, very modest and low enrollment are still being it very difficult to judge yield." have a deficit," Seidel said. across the board and hand us will have no appreciable im- researched, but Seidel sur- "It isof comfort that other The college made some the results," said Dr. Julia pact on what we do," said Dr. mised that the tuition in- private colleges faced similar cuts by reducing the amount Orza, education chair and LeRoy Panek, English de- crease was one factor. shortfalls," she added. "It budgeted for interest on loan graduate program coordina- partment chair. . "The price of a college proves that the admissions is. debt and deferring fillingsome tor. Several budget catego- education continues to be not a science and gives us new position requests. "It would have been ries were also reduced simply cited as the number one con- challenges as we enter this re- Over $100,000 for com- easier for him to make cuts because of the fewer number cern for students and par- cruitingyear." puter-related purchases was that way, but it would have of students. ents.rO'Conneil satd. "More According to Seidel, the also cut, but the computers been heavy handed," Orza "It's safe to say the gro- than 80 percent of McDaniel process of creating a budget were still bought with surplus added. "He didn't even tell ceq billwill be less than pro- students receive need or and projecting and ideal enroll- hmdsfrom lastyear before then us how much to cut. He just jected." Seidel said. Also, not merit based aid, so we are ment for next year will begin end of the fiscal year in June. said, 'See what you can do to as many part time faculty sensitive to this issue." again in a few weeks.