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Winona State University OpenRiver The inonW an - 2000s The inonW an – Student Newspaper 2-28-2007 The inonW an Winona State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan2000s Recommended Citation Winona State University, "The inonW an" (2007). The Winonan - 2000s. 172. https://openriver.winona.edu/thewinonan2000s/172 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The inonW an – Student Newspaper at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in The inonW an - 2000s by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007 Volume 85 Issue 18 INSIDE: News — ■ Early daylight- saving time: The facts behind the change ■ On 93.8 percent white campus, what does black history mean? ■ UPAC bids on alternative rock band Cake for 4- 20 spring concert Arts ■ Winona re- Courtney Pate/WINONAN ceives record- Trays of uneaten food get stacked and thrown away at Winona State University's Jack Kane Dining Center. A survey conducted by Winona State student Wesley Maurer for a class discovered the Smaug's waste included 2,785 plates, breaking 29.5 4,800 plastic utensils and 6,570 Styrofoam cups a week. inches of snow Shanthal Perera Since the United Climate Commitment, a WINONAN Nations released a report non-binding agreement announcing humans are saying the university will WSU spent in ■ Two students When former vice a "very likely cause" for act as leader in reducing its 2006: sell Steve Ir- president Al Gore wins global warming, states, effects of global warming. two academy awards for towns and universities The contract suggests $1.4 million in gas . win wristbands have been taking steps to Winona State try to obtain ■ a documentary on global ■ $1.05 million in electricity warming, it is serious. act on the phenomenon a target date for achieving Add that to the countless that threatens our future. climate neutrality and U $338,000 in water and ■ Roberts re- acts and laws signed to On Feb. 12, Winona initiate two of the sewage costs reduce carbon emissions, State University President following: ■ $28,000 in fuel oil views 'Ghost a confession at the state of Judith Ramaley signed an ■ 15 percent of campus Rider' the union and a report on American Colleges and global warming. Universities Presidents See GREEN, Page 6 Phone: 507) 457-5119 http://www.winona.edu/winonan GREEN Continued from page 1 energy through renewable of producing ethanol is not Winona State owns three Maurer for a class showed the efforts with facilities. resources within a year sustainable. I'm more excited boilers in the utility plant—two Smaug's waste include 2,785 The most important ■ New campus construction to see investment in solar and bigger ones for winter and a plates, 4,800 plastic utensils function for the committee is meet U.S. Green Building wind power, which is more smaller one for summer—that and 6,570 Styrofoam cups a to coordinated all the efforts Council's Leadership in feasible." provide energy to the entire week. in campus and the community, Energy and Environmental The state requirement campus. The club also plans to place Michlitsch said. Design silver standard might aid in one of most The boilers run on gas, but information on food cards in With the recent buzz in the ■Provide public difficult optional objectives when temperatures get low, the cafeteria detailing where environment, there is a danger transportation for all faculty, in the presidents climate Winona State, a major gas the food came from and a with the movement being staff, students and visitors commitment: to obtain 15 consumer, switches to fuel oil calculation of how much single-issue oriented. ■Buy Energy Star certified percent or more of the campus's to reduce pressure on Xcel carbon was emitted for the "Don't put all your eggs energy-efficient appliances for energy from renewable Energy. food to be brought to Winona. in one basket," said Michael as many areas for which rating resources. Kluver said the boilers were While making students Bowler. exist Winona State has already replaced in 2001 and are now aware of importance of eating Bowler said the university ■Create a policy for jumped on the county's two computer-controlled. a banana from South America, should collaborate and learn offsetting greenhouse emissions megawatt wind turbines as A system called "heat the club also hopes to get from places like India and generated by university-paid a possible source of clean recovery" is used in some of encourage the cafeteria to buy China. air travel energy. the newer buildings at Winona more local food. "Unfortunately, I really do Carleton College in State. The science labs need The Sierra student coalition, think the failing ofglobalization These symbolic acts aren't Northfield, Minn., is "the constant air circulation but part of Winona State's student is that it is not a sustainable limited to the university. standard," according to David instead of wasting the 72- environmental club, have system. Sustainability is the key Winona Mayor Jerry Hamerski, a physics professor degree air, the heat is captured plans to run the Lourdes bus thing," he said. "The feeling is Miller plans to sign the U.S. at Winona State. by panels, which in turn heats on bio-diesel by next fall, said the west has had sufficient time Mayors Climate Protection The college built a 1.65- the incoming fresh air. member Callie Runestad. to respond to global warming, Agreement, which involves megawatt wind turbine, which A computer graphic of the The bio-diesel will be but it has failed. Now the a range of actions to curb replaces about 40 percent of science building showed 38- produced through vegetable focus shifts to India and China carbon emissions and promote the college's total electrical degree air was heated to almost oil, which the group hopes to but I'm not sure if they'll do sustainability by reforming load with non-polluting energy. 64 degrees without generating get used vegetable oil from anything either." land-use policies, improving In the long term, the turbine is any extra heat. "It's free heat," Chartwells dining services. Bowler also mentioned energy and fuel efficiency and expected to become profitable Kluver said. The environmental club the ironic contradictions of pursuing other initiatives. for the university while This system of saving plans to participate in "Step it the U.S.'s response to global Minnesota Governor Tim reducing its environmental energy is also used in the Up," a national climate action warming, citing Pawlenty's Pawlenty signed a bill into law footprint. newly renovated Pasteur and campaign, on April 14, where renewable act and Texas's requiring the state's electric "But it's a different Stark halls, which was built in students will rally with signs plans for more coal burning utilities to obtain 25 percent of geographic location,"Hamerski 1991. on the Wisconsin-Minnesota facilities. their energy from renewable said. "We don't really have that When Memorial hall is bridge pass down town resources by 2020. This is one much wind here." renovated, the university Winona. of the toughest of the 21 energy "NIMBY" is another plans to use hot air from the Hohoff said she had met Reach Shanthal Perera at laws in the nation. problem the community will locker rooms to generate heat, with architects involved with [email protected]. Like a trickling effect, many need to overcome, Hamerski Kluver said, and possibly the new wellness facility and cities and states have started said, which means: "Yes a wind utilizing kitchen exhaust spoken about adding more adopting new environmentally turbine is a good idea, but 'not from the kitchens in Kryzsko eco-friendly features in the friendly policies causing some in my backyard.' Commons. building such as adding more to wonder the plausibility of But reducing the campus' One ofKluver's new proj ects windows to depend less on the initiatives. dependency on fossil fuels is includes placing meters in all electric lights. If you're not a "If the state is taking such a not only environmental, but the main campus buildings to Winona State English 9-5 person, strong position of leadership, also financially beneficial to individually measure heating, professor Gretchen how about many other institutions will Winona State. cooling and electricity. "But Michlitsch is currently 11-2, 4-7, or 6-11? be able to follow," said Bruno During mid-February's sub- that costs money too," Kluver leading an informal ad-hoc Here's a job that'll fit into any Borsari, a biology professor zero temperatures, Winona said. "The meter to measure the environmental committee at Winona State. "Can we be State burned 300 gallons of water cooling cost $7,000." of students, faculty and schedule. If you like flexible hours emission free? Probably not, fuel oil an hour to keep the "If I could save even 5 community members which and great pay at a place where but we can do simple things campus warm. At the rate of percent, its worth looking into. meets on Monday evenings. like disconnecting your laptop $1.90 a gallon, Winona State That's like a $100,000," he Michlitsch said student you can see and meet friends, call groups are hoping to take from the power supply when was spending close to $600 an said. us (when you have the time). E.O.E. you go to bed." hour, according to Scott Kluver, Tara Hohoff, environmental part in an energy saving When asked where this chief engineer of power plant.