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Show Your News MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2005 PAGE A2 YOUR WEEK AHEAD Recycling at UVSC something French sees as a necessity. "Right now, there waste we put out could be are recycling bins in some recycled." Nelson and other departments, and a few select students sorted through the areas of campus." Though garbage produced in one day French condones the recycling activity of the differat UVSC. Among food remnants and ent departments on campus, candy wrappers were news- she thinks it's important that papers, aluminum cans, card- students have more access to board and plastic bottles, all recycling. recyclable. People like Jake The Green Club has plans to Howlett, who works for re- share the findings of this audit cycling on campus, plan to with administration, showing change this. how much waste is produced As an interim solution to on campus, hoping the findUVSC's recycling problem, ings will perhaps emphasize there are plans to place more the need for a "more comprerecycling bins campus wide. hensive recycling program on "We were just given a $2500 campus," something Mertz grant for more bins that will said he'd like to see soon. be placed all over campus," Environmental awareness said Howlett. This grant is something the Green Club came from the Merit Grant would like UVSC campus to Program, through UVSC. emphasize, placing emphasis These bins will be placed on sustainability, with their throughout campus to make major work on recycling. recycling more accessible for Mertz's views seem to align students. with the Green Club, noting, Of significant increase "We have a stewardship to will be the number of paper conserve resources." recycling bins in the halls, "Recycling" cont'd from page AI What to do and where to be for the week of April 18-23 Music Dept. Concerts Monday-Friday The UVSC Music Dept. will present free semester-end performances April 18-22 every night at 7:30 p.m. in the Ragan Theater. Monday-Symphony Orchestra Tuesday-Symphony Band Wednesday-Jazz, Percussion Thursday-Choral Concert Friday-Chamber Orchestra Wednesday Poetry reading and contest Poetry will be read in Center Stage today at 7 p.m. Awards will be given and refreshments will be served. thursday Lost and Found Sale All items over three months old will be sold at Campus Connection Thursday and Friday. ;• ^ ; friday community members and state legislators. News Writer Opening remarks were given by President Sederburg Amid local and national who introduced American debate over academic Association of University freedom UVSC hosted an all Professors General Secretary day summit April 11 entitled Roger Bowen. The AAUP "Toward finding Common is a national organization Ground: A Dialogue on representing roughly 1.2 Academic Freedom and million professors of higher education with a selfResponsibility." Presenters and panelists proclaimedmission to (among things) "advance in two different forums other included various students, academic freedom." faculty, administration, Among the many different facets of academic freedom discussed throughout the day the question was often raised as to whether academic freedom conflicted with "community values." "Often we talk about 'community values' as if it were this monolith," said Brad Cook, UVSC's V.P. for Academic Affairs, "But we have a responsibility on this campus to serve multiple communities, cultures, and lifestyles; this is a place in which those have to be able to coexist under the general rubric of civility and respect and we have to allow for a variety of ideas and opinions or it becomes something less than a university here." State legislators in attendance, seemedtodisagree with Cook's statements, and expressed disapproval with the way academic freedom is realized on college campuses across the nation and here at UVSC. 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