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After not everyone will mear well, and the less sensu you become to criticisir the more prepared you be for the harsher realities of error in the outsit world beyond the safeh academia. Try to foster a culture of intellectual amnesty t your classrooms. Encoi age your classmates to participate in discussion and avoid reacting ne tively to their errors, Dt not laugh, smirk, or be otherwise condescends in response to their mis takes. Their feelings an different than yours. 11 of scenarios that would make you more likely speak up and try to art, for such scenarios. An member, there is no rot for pride in an academic a, setting, only knowledge and humility. Now that you are arm with this knowledge, it your duty, just like it m mine, to share it with yo n peers. RECYCLE continued from page 3 that have regularly rallied for projects to improve energy efficiency on campus. The Sustainability Club created the bike share T initiative on campus last semester. There are green bikes on campus meant for students to use to travel 1 between classes without W the use of a car for those j who don't want to or don't .X have time to walk. Students experience frustration as professors refuse to use online The recycling bins on learning tools like Canvas Features editor Markee Heckenliable says Canvas use should be required of professors campus are emptied by a combination of custodial CANVAS or calculate their own staff and various clubs, points and assignments continued from page 3 grades. This may seem involved in the grading including the Sustainabillike a lazy approach, ity Club. The smaller bins process. Every profesclass, with no letter but students have busy sor is different with his are taken to dumpsters on grade next to it. Stulives: school, work and or her grading scales. campus, which are emptied dents grades are based other responsibilities. It should be required by recycling companies. on how well they did Students' experiences for professors to use The Sustainability Club on quizzes, tests, asare different than the Canvas because, wheth- runs what recycling there signments and possibly professors, especially er professors like using is currently on campus. participation. All these for students who are it or not, they're the Sustainability Club Adviser things mentioned come on scholarships. Most ones in charge helping Tracey O'Kelly said the with a letter grade at scholarships require a club would like to expand students so learn, why the end of the semester. high GPA, and when its recycling not make it a little bit program but is When professors or students are unaware easier on us? ?eing hampered by admininstructors dont give of their progress in a istration. is Technology prevastudents an idea on how class, they might be lent is todays world, They just don't feel it's well they're doing in unsure about the status especially in college. necessary, O'Kelly said. class throughout the of their scholarship. It's time for professors We need students to drive semester on Canvas, Also, it's almost nearto join their the initiative. We have a it causes stress, and colleagues ly impossible to track on Canvas and make petition, and we would students are forced to your own grade when students ove for students to sign it. lives a little guess how they're doing you don't know all the easier. OKelly said she has - IUJIW many ideas of how to expand recycling on campus. She wants administration to fund more dumpsters and receptacles at desks, in the halls and in classrooms. I think that if we could get the administration to realize that students want more recycling, then they will make more of an effort to help us to get it, OKelly said. We really need to be a leader for the community. OKelly said the club hopes to initiate outdoor recycling bins in the near future, and club members feel it will be easier to get through to administration with the new curbside recycling. Chloe Lichtenberg, a sophomore Spanish major from Hailey, Idaho, is the president of the Sustainability Club. Be conscious about every product that you buy, Lichtenberg said. Take a look at the plastic package and think, Where is this going right now? Where is it going to end up on this Earth? You know you produce a lot of trash just in one day and people don't realize it. Taking a second just to look at it can change your whole viewpoint.' Lichtenberg also point out students can bring able containers to establ ments like Starbucks art Swig to create less wart Recycling is importan' for a plethora of reasons It helps the environment re by decreasing landfills a preserving clean oceans By using recycled mater als, there is less need ten down trees or otherwise decrease the habitats of wildlife. Just having ko cling plants provides job for citizens. An expanded recycle program should be pub place at DSU with more enthusiasm and quickl) Green initiatives aren't high up on the list of 'Y to spend money, but the should be. It is our resp sibility to teach and for our comffllli nity. The Sustainability a petition for furthef recycling on campus. Students who are inter?' in signing the petition to the third floor of tf library to OKelly's ofN or go to the club meetnP at 3:30 pm. on Monday in the Gardener Student Center. 0-ha- Fe Ca |