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John Carroll University Carroll Collected The aC rroll News Student 2-24-2011 The aC rroll News- Vol. 87, No. 16 John Carroll University Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews Recommended Citation John Carroll University, "The aC rroll News- Vol. 87, No. 16" (2011). The Carroll News. 833. http://collected.jcu.edu/carrollnews/833 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aC rroll News by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ‘King of Limbs’ Gadhafi puts Radiohead album down protests in review, p. 4 Libya, p. 10 THE Thursday, FebruaryARROLL 24, 2011 EWSVol. 87, No. 16 C The Student Voice of John Carroll University N Since 1925 Ice storm wreaks havoc on campus Box city hits JCU Ryllie Danylko The Carroll News Brian Bayer The con- Campus Editor ditions defi- Think dorm life is bad? Try sleeping in a box nitely cast a for one night in the frigid Cleveland weather, After enjoying a beautiful week of wintery light and see how long you last. John Carroll’s Labre blue skies and heat wave temperatures on the campus Project is doing just that. This Friday, Feb. 25, in the mid-fifties, Cleveland weather has for prospec- an event called “Boxed Out” will kick off in the returned to its normal frigid conditions tive students Rodman Chapel. More than 25 students have with a vengeance. visiting JCU already volunteered for this event, in which On Sunday night, after a mixture of rain on President’s they will sleep on the quad in cardboard boxes and ice fell for several hours, the precipita- Day, said junior to simulate what thousands of homeless people tion froze as temperatures dropped. Cory Gotowka. in Cleveland experience every day. This caused a severe buildup of ice on Gotowka is a “Boxed Out” is the brainchild of junior Sara- the branches of the trees. Many were not tour guide and Jane Kukawka, who implemented the project strong enough to support the additional led one of the as her senior capstone for the Arrupe Scholars weight, and large branches began break- 55 tours that Program. Kukawka described it as an “aware- ing. took place on ness blitz” to help people realize the realities of To address this issue, the maintenance Monday dur- homelessness occurring in our own city. department has been working to clean up ing JCU’s open Photo by Brian Bayer In a background study prepared for Hous- the campus and make it easier for students house. One of the several trees on campus that broke under the ing First, the Levin College at Cleveland State to get around, said Associate Vice Presi- “I took a weight of the ice. University estimated that the homeless popula- dent of facilities Carol Dietz. tour with five tion of Cuyahoga County most likely ranged “We try to be as proactive as we can,” families, and “Most people expected it [the between 12,546 and 18,122 persons per year. said Dietz. “The guys stay later and come when we were walking between Millor weather] in the area,” he said. While recruiting for the project, Kukawka in earlier.” and Pacelli, a huge tree fell down right in Fortunately, according to the ex- was met with a lot of hesitation and “Won’t it be In order to keep students safe, the front of us. A couple of the moms gasped,” tended forecast on Accuweather.com, kind of cold?” remarks, to which she responded, maintenance department ropes off the Gotowka said. there are warmer days to come. And “Oh yeah, trust and believe, people sitting out dangerous areas with red caution tape and He acknowledged that it was a little bit with these warmer temperatures, the there already know.” salts and plows the sidewalks for acces- difficult to get around campus with the ice maintenance department will be busy Kukawka has a pretty good idea herself, as sibility for students, faculty and visitors, and snow on the paths, but he does not be- tending to the large amounts of melt- a part of the Labre Project, who venture into according to Dietz. lieve it looked bad to the visiting families. ing snow and ice. downtown Cleveland every Friday, regardless of the weather, to do homeless ministry. Kukawka’s inspiration for “Boxed Out” was drawn from these trips, where she and other Recycling efforts take competitive edge Please see, BOX, p. 2 Molly Wilson Assistant Campus Editor initially only consisted of Ohio University Recyclemania. cycled materials. This contest will take place “Going Green” is one of the most popu- and Miami University in Oxford. Fronczek calculates these numbers by es- right after students return from spring break lar and talked about issues of the decade. Recyclemania encourages all clubs timating the volume of the boxes of recycled during the week of March 14-25. Representa- “Going Green” can include driving an and organizations to get involved in the items and then multiplies that by the number tives from each floor will bring their bags of environmentally-friendly car, using reus- competition in order to achieve the best of boxes per week. The job is easier this year recyclables to the student center to weigh the able grocery bags and recycling. The latter results. because the University’s waste hauler recently materials on newly-bought scales. At the end has been promoted for many years and even Andrew Fronczek, JCU’s director of purchased scales of the week the floor that produced the most though some communities have stopped purchasing and auxiliary services, is in to add to the recycling will win the contest. The dining hall collecting, individuals are still encouraged charge of contracts for waste garbage services will advertise the contest, post the to recycle on their own. removal. trucks in results, and donate prizes for the winning so- John Carroll has joined an organization Fronczek said order to rority or fraternity. Through this contest JCU to promote recycling called Recyclemania. that approxi- weigh the can get a better idea of the average amount of Recyclemania is a national competition mately three or amount of recycling a floor can produce. According to currently including about 630 colleges and four years ago he waste the Fronczek, the Greek life challenge will help universities. was informed trucks were figure out how actively involved the students Schools report their recycling data and of the Univer- carrying. can become in Recyclemania. He commented are ranked accordingly. The data consists sity becom- Fronczek is that the “results will be used to determine of recyclables per capita, amount of total ing involved also a member the level of interest among the student com- recyclables, the least amount of trash per with the of the Sustain- munity to participate in a more widespread capita and the rate of recycling. Accord- Recyclema- ability Commit- or competitive manner.” Residence Life is also involved in the ing to an article by Marietta College’s nia project. Photo from sfadining.com tee and on the newspaper, The Marcolian, the competi- It became Recycling Subcommittee. Greek life challenge, along with having tion begins Feb. 6 and ends April 2. Last Fronczek’s job This subcommittee has organized a new distributed the blue recycling bins into all year JCU ranked first among schools in the to measure how project to promote involvement with Recy- the dorm rooms in order to promote students Ohio Athletic Conference, followed by the much recycling JCU produced and he clemania to students on campus. This project to recycle. In addition to the recycling bins, University of Mount Union and Marietta began calculating the amount of recycling will be a contest between Greek life residence College. The program began in 2001 and each week and reporting the results to floors to see which floor produces the most re- Please see, RECYCLE, p. 3 Index Inside this issue Campus 2 Diversions 15 Cafeteria OAC championship 4 Arts & Life Editorial 17 creativity, wrestling preview, p. 9 Sports 8 Op/Ed 18 World News 10 Classifieds 20 p. 5 2 Campus February 24, 2011 www.jcunews.com The Carroll News Campus Continuing Coverage Briefs ‘Dan,’ ‘Danielle Loster’ make waves on campus JCU to Administration, students and Greek life respond to ‘hot or not’ Facebook profiles participate in Brian Bayer There’s no way for us as a Univer- site falls largely on the students. the weekly meeting and asked Campus Editor sity to take down the two profiles She said that the best people to them not to friend this page,” said national study without taking down the entire site address this issue are the female Crea. “We were just trying to be Last week, The Carroll News [Facebook],” said Crahen. students featured on the page. proactive.” On Feb. 10, all JCU freshmen printed a story about the profile However, this site isn’t like “If you look at who is most Sophomore Spencer German, a and seniors received an e-mail pages of “Dan” and “Danielle CollegeACB, said Crahen, where influential in [students’] lives, it’s member of Beta Theta Pi, said that to participate in a survey called Loster.” The “Dan Loster” profile blocking campus access did not their fellow students,” said Crahen. it wasn’t discussed at any of their the National Survey of Student was designed to compare female affect students. The administration “We need to engage our students in chapter meetings because they felt Engagement. This survey intends students to each other in a bracket does not want to block Facebook on open dialogue about these sites.” that their members were sensible to collect data on how often stu- modeled after the NCAA March the campus server.