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Vol. 43 No. II
Serving the
CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Community
January 23, 2012
Inside
Departments:
Arts Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Across the Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Life’s Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Trivia Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
In This Issue:
A Visitor to the Loch Shop . . . . . . .2
More Homecoming . . . . . . . . . . .2,3
Alumni Association
Visits Hawks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Alternative Spring Break . . . . . . . .5
Pre-Nursing Info Sessions . . . . . . . .5
The Loft Cafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Survey on Internship
And Community Service . . . . . . . .8
What Can Faculty do to
Help the Cost of Textbooks? . . . . .9
Ruffin Reading Bowl . . . . . . . . . .12
Clayton State Plans for Homecoming 2012
by Gid Rowell, Alumni Relations
Eighteen Tons
by John Shiffert, University Relations
Clayton State University students, facul-
ty/staff, alumni and friends … mark your
calendar, Homecoming 2012 is right
around the corner.
Clayton State will celebrate Homecoming
Week from Monday, Feb. 13 through
Saturday, Feb.18. The Lakers will face in-
state rival Columbus State in the Saturday
Homecoming basketball contests with the
women’s game at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s
game at 7:30 p.m.
In the spirit of Clayton State’s new strate-
gic planning efforts, this year’s
Homecoming theme will be, “Beyond
Your Imagination … Clayton State
Homecoming 2012.”
In addition to the basketball games, a
number of activities are planned for
Homecoming Day. Saturday will kick-off
with a Homecoming 5K Road Race at 9
a.m., followed by the annual Alumni
Breakfast. Later in the afternoon, leading
into the games, there will be a tailgate and
spirit rally.
Clayton State will crown its 2012
Homecoming Queen and King at halftime
of the men’s basketball game. Last year,
Kearia Smith, of Waynesboro, and Rico
Lee, of Wrens, received the honors. After
the games, the Student Government
Association will be sponsoring a
Homecoming Dance.
Homecoming King and Queen applica-
tions will be available beginning
Wednesday, Jan. 18, and will be due on
Friday, Feb. 3. Applications will be avail-
able from the Student Activities Center,
the University Center Information Desk,
or the Campus Life website, http://admin-
services.clayton.edu/campuslife/.
Eighteen tons, or, more precisely, 18.7
tons. That’s how much the Clayton State
University campus recycled from May
2011 to November 2011.
Maybe you can’t quite grasp the scope of
18.7 tons. Well, first of all that’s 37,400
pounds. It also equates to 318 trees saved,
since one ton equals 17, 40-foot Douglas
firs. Or, perhaps you think in terms of
energy saved. Here, one ton equals 4,102
kilowatt hours of electricity. Do the math,
we’ll wait… Right, that’s 76,707.4 kilo-
watts. If you’re into preventing air pollu-
tion, a recycled ton equals 60 pounds of
air pollution, so 18.7 recycled tons
equates to 1,122 pounds of air pollution
prevented. Finally, if you want to talk
landfills (which is a lot more pleasant than
smelling landfills), that’s 56 cubic yards
of landfill space saved.
Thus, it seems safe to say that the Clayton
State community continues to achieve sig-
nificant progress in its recycling efforts.
Recall that in May 2011, the Student
Center and the Student Activity Center
(SAC) buildings were selected to pilot a
new single stream recycling program. A
pilot for Clayton State, that is. Outside of
the University, single stream recycling is a
trend across the country in that it has
become common in all types of business
and institutions.
At Clayton State, this Business
Operations sustainability program allows
participants in these buildings to co-min-
gle all their recyclables into a single con-
tainer for collection, processing and
Homecoming, cont’d., p. 3
Eighteen Tons cont’d., p. 9