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COLLEGIANNEWS.COM Dunwoody


Student Government Association elections go unnoticed by students


Collegian Contributor By Jeffrey Davis


Tammy Woolcock/Collegian Staff Dust cloud from parking lot 11


Collegian Staff By Tammy Woolcock


Tis spring season students on


the Dunwoody campus have had to cope with two nuisances, the seasonal pollen, and an amazing amount of dust from the unpaved area on parking lot 11. Te beginning of each class


period causes a new flow of traffic entering and exiting


the school


premises. Whenever a car drives on this area of


lot 11, it leads to an


enormous cloud of dust. It rises as high as the light posts in the parking lot, and depending on the gust of the wind it travels extensively to other areas on campus. Nadjee McKinnie


a student at GPC Dunwoody said, "Te


parking lot is very uneven and has numerous pot holes. Tis makes it very harmful to my car suspension and leads to unwanted maintenance cost."


Cars that are parked in lot 11 usually succumb to the environment and adapts to being the grey colored dust found in the parking lot. Hence, if you decide to spoil your vehicle to a wash it would be advisable to avoid lot 11. "For years that area of parking lot 11 had an old building that was


was eventually torn down


in 2009," said Sharon Topping, interim facilities manager for the Dunwoody Campus. According to Lewis Godwin,


director of facilities planning and projects, "At one time, the Board of Regents had an additional


academic building for the Dunwoody Campus on their list of future projects.


Te building


was anticipated to be built in this location and it would have been wasteful to pave this lot only to remove it shortly thereafter." Te building plans were later stopped by the Board of Regents, due to a lack of political support from locally elected officials. Topping admitted, "Parking lots


are difficult it all revolves around money and when you get funding." At this point there seem to be


only two possible solutions to this dilemma. One, hope for some type of funding to complete the parking lot or move forward with the building plans; or two, drive at a reasonable speed in that area of parking lot 11.


Te Student Government Association at Dunwoody held their officer and senator elections on April 12, 2012. Even with this important election taking place, some students did not even know that any voting was going on. Memorie Williams was not only unaware that the elections were taking place, but she also did not know who the candidates were. “If you are not going to put it out, then why have it?” was the statement that Memorie made when asked about the lack of campaigning and advertisements for the elections and candidates. Tomas Payton,


a Business


Administrations Major, also did not know about the elections or who the candidates were. Tomas shared his reason for why he and possibly many other students were indifferent to the elections. “Tis is a two-year college, so I am trying to do my time and move on.” Tomas did comment on what could have been done to advertise the elections. “Tey should have done a better job at letting it be known and the candidates should have campaigned.” Emma McCrary, another GPC student that did not know about the elections;


stated that “If they


wanted to have votes, then they should have gotten the word out.” Another student that shared his thoughts about the elections was


Collegian Contributor By Leslie Mele


Students at Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody


have the


opportunity to join a wide variety of clubs. Whether your interests are cultural, academic or professional there are like minded people for you to engage in activities with. For those students interested


in preserving our resources for the future, Dunwoody campus now has a club for you; the Environmental


Q:


Sean Pope, who stated that “Tere needs to be an effort to promote awareness because students need to know about it.” Sean also commented on why these elections are important ,“Tis is something that affects students, part of our tuition goes into this.” One reason that the student body might have been unaware of the candidates was because Te Collegian had just released its first April edition with the names of the candidates that were up for election, the same day that the elections were taking place.


Tere were, however; some


students that did know about the elections. Keith Wilkinson thought that he had gotten an email about the elections. Keith did express his thoughts about the election lack of advertisement,


confidence


APRIL 25, ,2012


“Tey should


have put a lot more into it, so students would know about it.” Keith did express his


with student involvement in the election by saying, “I am sure that a lot more students would have voted if they had known it.”Keith also expressed that the Spring Fling celebration received a great deal of advertisement and that many students were present


for


it. Another student that did have knowledge about the elections was Saara Haile. Saara did, however; express her concerns with the efforts taken to promote the elections. “Tey should have done a better job at advertisement because the students would have known.”


Environmental Sustainability Club gets ready for the summer break


Sustainability Club is dedicated to bringing


attention to preserving


our resources both on campus and in the community. Te ESC club’s last meeting


held March 1, 2012 in C building’s auditorium. Although the turnout was small, due to the beginning of spring break students from Professor Pollack’s environmental science class were in attendance. Shaundra Hopkins,


student


president of the club related some of the clubs upcoming events and ideas. Among which were working


How do you feel about students


asleep in class? The Soapbox


Reporting and photography by Josh Kaplan


A:


“It depends on the student. If they are able to do the work and still sleep in class it’s okay as long as it’s not disruptive.” - Brian Johnson


“I understand, but


sometimes it is a distraction. My concern is what the professor - Jin Jeon


is thinking.”


“It’s disrespectful to the teachers.” - Zach Motley


who fall


to update the recycling bins on campus, setting up an electronics recycling program and plans for a Chattahoochee river clean-up event. After covering the club’s


news Ms. Hopkins introduced Amber Weaver, Environmental and


Education Outreach co-


coordinator and director of Keep DeKalb Beautiful who gave a brief presentation and aired a video about Single Stream recycling and how it benefits the state of Georgia both financially and in


conservation of resources as well as the employment figures of those working in the recycling industries. Te film showed various


recycling methods used to reclaim materials from aluminum, glass, plastic, and paper all in the state of Georgia. According to the video “What gets recycled in Georgia stays in Georgia”. One of the more interesting methods of collecting materials is single stream recycling. In this method recyclable materials do not need to be separated by the public. Instead machines use


various methods to cause the materials to fall in to assorted bins. Tis method is


easier


the average citizen and allows for greater participation resulting


for in


more materials collected. So whether you call it ecology, environmental concern, plain recycling,


or just sustainability is


important to our future. So lend a hand if you can, the results will benefit you in the long run.


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