VikingFor Students, by Students NewsApril 20, 2018 Saving the Environment for Dummies By: Veronica Flesher 3. Bring your own or small appliances, try bags. donating or reselling Saving the Carrying in groceries them. environment sounds after food shopping can difficult, but there are be a pain, but consider 5. Start composting. many easy ways for the environmental Do you throw anyone to help. impact of those plastic away things like coffee It may not seem like bags. They are not grounds, potato peels a lot, but small actions biodegradable and and eggshells? You can be do add up. It does not frequently pollute composting these things have to be anything the ocean, killing sea and you do not even huge; in fact, there are creatures. Next time, need to leave your house. plenty of simple ways bring your own bags to Create a compost to help the planet. the store. Not only are heap in your yard where Here are five easy reusable bags better for you can toss food and things anybody can do the environment, they yard waste. Worms and to do their part. are stronger and carry bacteria will break down more than a plastic bag. the waste and turn it 1. Try a meatless into a wonderfully rich Monday (or any day 4. Reduce, reuse, and soil that you can use for of the week). recycle. some potted plants or Eating beef is It seems like it should flowers. SPOTLIGHT ON OCC’S more harmful to be common knowledge, Or if you are feeling the environment but many people do not ambitious, you can start ANIMAL RIGHTS CLUB: than driving a car, a know about recycling in your own garden with report by National Ocean County. Make some favorite fruits and Geographic said. sure to recycle things like vegetables or maybe By: Jane Bowden, Editor Going vegetarian glass, aluminum, plastic some native Ocean OCC’s Animal Rights Club is looking for or vegan can greatly (types one and two), County plants. There reduce the members interested in spreading awareness on strain on the Even the smallest is a reason New the protection of animals and the environment. environment, act can reduce your Jersey is called the but if that “Garden State,” Led by President Sabrina Scutt and Vice seems too carbon footprint and after all. President Daniel Varall, members meet every drastic, try benefit the planet. Composting Monday from 2 to 3 p.m. in room 211 in the going a day will use up your Student Center to organize donations for no-kill of the week without paper, and corrugated waste that was previously and rescue shelters. For students unable to join, any meat. There cardboard. Other items thought to be trash, save contributions of money, animal food, toys and are plenty of meat like batteries, paint cans, you money on expensive alternatives that can be computers and more fertilizers, and reduce more are accepted. found at the grocery can be brought directly your carbon footprint. “Growing the club from the ground up hasn’t store. Or you can try to county recycling A great way to help the been easy, but we don’t give up for what we other proteins, such facilities, located in planet is to give back as chickpeas, lentils or Lakewood and in believe in,” Varall said. “We are still looking for what you take from it by more people to get involved to make the world quinoa. Manahawkin. composting. Even better than a better place.” 2. Buy local and Many people will not recycling is reducing take action to help the in-season produce. and reusing. The over- For more information, contact Scutt at sabrina_ All the fruits and packaging of items environment because [email protected] or Varall at daniel_ vegetables in the creates major stress on they feel it is too big [email protected]. grocery store have the environment. of an issue. However, traveled many miles Try to reduce your even the smallest act to get there, and the consumption of products can reduce your carbon transportation created and buy things with less footprint and benefit the a lot of pollution. packaging, and reuse planet. Head to the farmer’s the items you have. Jars, Examine your own market and pick up bottles, cans and jugs can actions and figure out some locally grown be easily repurposed into how you can limit fresh produce. It helps a lot of things. negative environmental the environment and If you have things impact. You will be when in-season, it you do not want but are surprised by just how tastes even better. still usable, like clothes easy it is.

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Ocean County College • College Drive, P.O. Box 2001 • Toms River, NJ 08754 • 732.255.0481 ON CAMPUS & More The Effects of Climate Change on Plants and Animals By: Ryan Ramakrishnan Thanks to global leafed out earlier, while correlates only the warming and “spring now the caterpillars’ arrival also temperatures and the arriving several weeks saw an earlier time frame, deaths of caribou calves. earlier in parts of the yet the flycatchers still Earlier greening in the world than it did a few had the normal departure arctic plants may make decades ago,” many species from Africa to Europe them less nutritious by are struggling to properly and weren’t meeting at the the time caribou arrive, adapt, the New York right times. Post said. Times recently reported. Northern Lapwing and Snowshoe Hare Scientists that have The brown fur of studied the effects of Eurasian Curlew The Northern lapwing and snowshoe hares changes seasonal changes on plants to white at wintertime and animals have coined Eurasian curlew in Finland lay their eggs after the for the purpose of the phrase “phenological camouflage. mismatch,” the New York farmers have sown their crops during the spring. “As the earth has Times said. warmed however, snow Five examples of With rising temperatures however, the birds started covered in the hare’s species scientists have habitat melts sooner, Illustration by OCC Student Amanda Habe found to be threatened by laying eggs earlier at the fields not yet attended leaving the animal more global warming, according exposed to predators,” to the New York Times, by the farmers. This CAMPUS BRIEFS are: means “well-concealed the New York Times nests are more likely to said. Phi Theta Kappa Presents Mathematics Spider Orchid get destroyed by tractors “Camouflage is Spider orchids trick and other machinery,” critical to keep prey Awareness Month Lecture “All About Ada” male bees into believing the New York Times said. animals alive,” L. Scott the plant is a mating Researchers are finding the Mills, a professor of By: Lindsey Markowitz Finland farmers to sow the wildlife biology at the Ocean County College’s Tau Iota Chapter of Phi Theta partner. With spring arriving earlier in some fields in advance but still University of Montana, Kappa presents “All About Ada,” a lecture by Mike seeing the birds lay their said. Mills found, for Pezzimenti on Tuesday, April 24. parts of the world, there is an earlier emergence eggs there two to three every week the snowshoe “All About Ada” will be presented in Room 128 of the of female bees that lure weeks prior now. hare was mismatched, it the males away from the was seven percent more W. Kable Russell Building from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Caribou orchids, a 2014 study in vulnerable to predators Pezzimenti will lecture about the computing pioneer, In western Greenland, Ada Lovelace. “All About Ada” is the last lecture in a five Britain said. “The main such as the lynx. The finding is that things are caribou eat lichen in the lecture series celebrating Mathematics Awareness Month winter but travel inland to hare is currently only 2018. The lecture is free to attend. getting increasingly bad mismatched by a week for orchid,” Anthony eat arctic plants and give birth as well in the spring or two but could extend Lovelace is considered to have written the first Davvy, a professor of upwards of eight weeks, instructions for computer programming in the mid- biological science at the and summer. With warmer temperatures in Greenland he said. 1800s. Although she died in 1852, her work was not University of East Anglia “If that were to recognized until the 1950’s. Her work was re-published said. and the declining of sea ice, the arctic plants are happen,” Mills said. in “Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital “[the hare] would Computing Machines” in 1953. Since the republishing European Pied Flycatcher greening up to 26 days From Africa, the earlier, the New York start declining toward of her work, Lovelace has received many posthumous extinction.” honors and awards. European pied flycatcher Times said. flies north to lay eggs for Scientists have found There may be a the arrival of the winter the region to show caribou chance for species like moth caterpillars. The calves dying earlier on the snowshoe hare to caterpillars in turn munch when the seasonal plant adapt with the upcoming on oak leaves during the growth comes so many generations with spring. days to weeks prior to the protection of the more Scientists in the migration of the caribou. adaptable parts of the Netherlands studied in the “It’s consistent with populations, the New 2000s that many of the the idea that mismatch York Times said. flycatchers were beginning is disadvantageous,” “It’s not a foregone to miss the window for Eric Post, an ecology conclusion that species perfect timing. With professor at the University with phenological warming temperatures of California, Davis mismatch going to go of the spring, oak trees regarding how the study extinct,” Mills said. Ocean County College Annual Seminar in D.C. By: Robert Greene Ocean County College is hosting an annual trip to Washington, D.C., which features a full day of educational seminars at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) from April 26-28. These seminars are conducted by international experts. The USIP is an independent bipartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to promote research, education and training on the peaceful resolution of international conflict. This trip also features excursions around the city to museums and other prominent D.C. sites. Current students at OCC can apply for a scholarship; which will cover travel and lodging. Interested members from the OCC community who are not students may attend the U.S. Institute of Peace seminars but are responsible for their own travel and hotel arrangements. Applications are available in the Office of Student Life (Student Center, Building #8) or by download from Ocean Connect. For more information, contact Professor Jason Ghibesi at 732-255-0400 ext. 2220 or [email protected]. Photo by OCC Student Dan McGee April 20, 2018 Viking News Page 3 CAMPUS & EDITORIAL Straws and the Ocean By: Joseph LaBella According to “National rather than recycling Geographic,” over 500 facilities, which leads them million plastic straws are to oceans. used per year in the United Take a walk on the States alone. beach this summer, one can According to Straw-less find straws littered among Ocean, plastic straws, along the sand. with other plastics, never A product that one break down. Over time, uses for approximately 20 plastic will separate into minutes and then throws smaller pieces of plastic, away, is causing damage to called micro-plastics, the population of various causing fish and other species in the ocean. aquatic life to digest them Leave the straw and which ultimately leads to use a coffee lid on your their death. fountain beverage the next Plastic straws are small, time you buy a drink from they do not usually get the student center, or drink thrown into a recycling bin, directly from the bottle they get thrown out with rather than using a straw the rest of the cup. They inside of one. then wind up in landfills Reduce, Reuse and Recycle By: Ashley Bagnall According to Dump two items that only do and Run Inc. the average one job each. A great way college student will that college students can produce 640 lbs of waste reduce waste is by printing Illustration by OCC Student David Vasquez this year, including over on both sides of the paper 500 disposable cups and instead of just on one side. 320 lbs of paper, this The second of the Three Politics and the Environment number can be decreased R’s stands for reuse. Instead By: Paul Kayser, Jr. energy restrictions by using something called of throwing out something should be in the year the Three R’s. 2100, in the year 2018?” it has placed on the that is broken or something The United States The Three R’s include that you don’t have use for Environmental he said. United States could cost America as much reduce, reuse and recycle, anymore, hang onto it in Protection Agency (EPA) “That’s fairly arrogant all of these things help to as 2.7 million lost jobs case you find another use is a federal agency that for us to think that we cut down on the amount of for it. Learning to reuse says its mission is “to know exactly what it by 2025 according to waste we throw away. They items, or re-purpose them protect human health should be in 2100.” the National Economic conserve natural resources, for a use different than and the environment.” Secretary of Energy Research Associates,” landfill space and energy. what they are intended for President Donald Rick Perry and Trump Trump said. Trump chose Oklahoma are also skeptical about However, according The average college student will attorney general Scott certain aspects of global to the agreement, produce 640 lbs. of waste this year. Pruitt to direct the EPA warming. America cannot fully in 2017. “The concept of withdraw until Nov. The Three R’s save not only is essential for bettering Pruitt has global warming was 4, 2020, which is one the land, but as well as the planet. One example in acknowledged certain created by and for the day after the next money that communities relation to college students environmental issues, Chinese in order to make presidential election. must use to dispose of is reusing plastic cups, U.S. manufacturing non- such as how humans The Trump waste in landfills. everyone has been to a competition,” Trump contribute to global administration has made For college students party where they have used warming. Elaborating tweeted in 2012. eliminating federal it might seem impossible The United States for us to incorporate plastic cups and then threw on the issue, though, regulations an important them away at the end of he said, “measuring is currently under these principles into policy, which includes the night, instead throw with precision, from my the Paris Accord, an our daily lives, but just lifting restrictions on implementing it a little bit them in the dishwasher at perspective, the degree international agreement environmental laws that that strives to combat can make a huge difference. the end of the night and ofhuman contribution is he refers to as hindrances climate change. Trump By refusing to buy items you will have clean cups very challenging.” on American businesses. However, Pruitt announced in June 2017 you don’t need, reusing for next time. Not only The Trump said in February that that the United States items more than once will this trick help save the he thinks that climate will withdraw from the administration has and disposing the items planet, but it will also save change might not be a agreement. looked into reversing that are no longer in use you money. bad thing. “Do we really “Compliance with over 60 environmental at appropriate recycling The last of the Three know what the ideal the terms of the Paris laws, according to the centers, you can contribute R’s is recycle. This means surface temperature Accord and the onerous New York Times. to a healthier planet. that the recycled material The first of the Three will be transformed again R’s is reduce. The logic into raw material that ...and Don’t Forget Arbor Day behind this is that if there By: Tim Kelleher can be shaped into a new 27. For the United States You can help in a is less waste, then there is item. There are very few The first recorded Arbor this could be considered number of ways this arbor less to recycle or reuse. The materials in the world that Day was on April 10, 1872. a very important day to day. Get together with a process of reducing begins cannot be recycled, so Julius Sterling Morton was recover from the hurricanes group of friends and plant with an examination of before throwing something the secretary of agriculture that took place in Texas, some trees, pick a public what you are using, and away in the trash make sure at the time, and invented a Florida and Puerto Rico. park to clean up, it can be what it is used for. holiday dedicated to trees. fun. Or you can donate to it can’t be recycled. Hurricanes Harvey and Before buying an item There are recycling bins Approximately 1 million Irma left Texas and Florida the Arbor Day Foundation determine whether it can trees were planted into the with $200 billion worth of and they can plant a tree be used for something all over campus that many Nebraska ground that day, damage, according to the for you if you want to help other than just what you students ignore. Next time and the tradition continues Arbor Day Foundation. the hurricane survivors. are buying it for, this that you mess up on an world-wide. Imagine the amount Remember that the allows you to get an item essay, or recieve a paper This year Arbor Day of wood and trees that earth needs your help to that does two or more back that you think that lands on Friday, April need to be replenished this keep it clean this Arbor jobs, rather than buying you don’t need, recycle it. Arbor Day. Day. Page 4 Viking News SPORTS Reporting in the Big Leagues By Casey Kirsh, Sports Writer

The biggest accomplishment for any young sports reporter is to get a chance to cover a professional game. Sitting in the press box to see the skate against the in front of a sold-out crowd seemed like a distant dream. On April 5, that became a reality. I found myself, as well as fellow colleagues, Mike Sheerin and Mike Delasandro, taking in a game from the press-box. For one night only, the three of us got to live the dream of being “attending media”. The Prudential Center treated the media to a free meal before the puck dropped, and it was not extra food that they had from the concession stands. The press were treated to a wide array of salads, rice, chicken wings, and pasta. It certainly beats the $7 hot dogs they have in the concessions. After everyone was finished stuffing their faces, it was off to find the seats in the press-box. The view overlooked the entire ice and it was easy to see the action at every part of the ice. The press level certainly was everything that a student- reporter could have hoped for. The chants of “Let’s Go Devils” and “We Want the Cup” from the 16,000- plus crowd were very distinguishable. During the intermission, while fans tend to get their snacks and beer, the press were treated to free coffee and ice cream. Upon arriving back to your station, there would be the period’s official stat sheet sitting on the table. How quickly the stats were printed and handed to every member of the media was truly amazing. Now it’s apparent how reporters get these weird and quirky stats such as how many goals a player has when it’s a full moon on a Sunday in March. The media guide chronicled every stat throughout the season for each team. Talking with Kinkaid and Taylor Hall is something that any hockey fan could only dream of doing. The experienced reporters that were recognizable seemed unfazed by the whole experience, and one could be overheard giving his plan to be in Dallas the next night and Boston the night after that. The travel that officials working for the NHL have to do is baffling. In a game that saw second period goals by Pavel Zacha and Miles Wood as well as Keith Kinkaid making 31 saves as part of a 2-1 victory – a win that clinched the Devils their first playoff berth since 2012 – the most memorable part of the evening was conducting post-game interviews in the locker room. Talking with Kinkaid and Devils forward and leading scorer, Taylor Hall, is something that any hockey fan could only dream of doing. Walking into the locker room and socializing with the players brings out the realization that these men are people too. The publicity that they receive can make them seem like superheroes, but the media is able to know them as people and not just hockey players. “It’s a grind. All you have to do is give yourself a chance and things will work out,” Hall said. The team held a playoff spot for all 82 games this season, and gave themselves the chance to finally bring playoff hockey OCC SPORTS REPORTERS COVER DEVILS GAME back to the Garden State. The same can be said about (Top to bottom) Interviewing Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid in being a sports journalist. Getting the chance to work the team’s locker room moments after clinching a playoff berth. at a professional NHL game is an opportunity that my The view from the Prudential Center Press Box. Viking News Viking News colleagues and I could only dream about. journalists (left to right) Casey Kirsh, Michael Delasandro and It will take a lot of effort to become a professional reporter, but all you can do is give yourself a chance. Mike Sheerin in the press box before the start of the game.