Poultry Power in Club Budgets SGA Debates Over Funding for Organizations
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Susanna Chacko, speaker for the Senate, had to remind the senators this was the incorrect time to debate EARTH club’s position. “It doesn’t make them lose their FEB status if you vote against their LAURA WILKINS / THE BREEZE budget,” Chacko said. She added that SGA can vote on the club’s FEB status in the fall. Every two years, SGA votes on whether FEB organizations can maintain Panel discusses poultry-themed energy this status. After the meeting, Rheanna Mar- as option to clean up Chesapeake Bay tino, senior class president, said she couldn’t speak for SGA as a whole but personally feels EARTH club By SEAN BYRNE hasn’t reached its potential with the The Breeze money it’s allocated. “The reason you’re granted FEB An energy activist organization thinks it may status is because you make a large have a solution to the energy consumption prob- impact on the campus,” Martino lem – one that lies in poultry waste. said. “Ever since their initial funding, 25x’25 Alliance’s goal is to support 25 percent I don’t think they’ve done anything of the United State’s energy spending with renew- that has been monumental or far able resources by the year 2025. The organization, reaching on the campus.” which has a branch at JMU, held a panel on Tues- UPB’s budget also came under LAURA WILKINS / THE BREEZE day and discussed its plans for renewable energy. heavy fire. Brent Bailey, a state facilitator for 25x’25 was the This year, a miscalculation on caught the mistake when UPB’s keynote speaker. RYAN FREELAND / THE BREEZE UPB’s behalf meant that its budget budget was submitted, and by the The panel consisted of five professionals associ- A panel of poultry farm and green energy was cut by roughly eight percent time it had been noticed, it was too ated with the topic at hand and five professionals representatives share plans for renewable energy instead of the three percent that SGA late to edit. from the poultry industry with Craig Honeycutt solutions in Virginia on Tuesday. requested all FEB clubs to cut from This three percent cut was moderating. their budgets. required because SGA wanted Poultry litter is made up of the waste from poul- Lauren Ingram, an employee of poultry litter Jordan Descovich, SGA finance try birds, mainly chickens and turkeys. energy company Fibrowatt, has proposed a poul- committee chair, said no one see SGA, page A4 “When we utilize natural resources, think sus- try litter plant here in Virginia. tainably, move past non-renewable resources and The plant will produce 55 megawatts of power grab what we have in front of us, we can come up and have the potential to burn approximately 50 with better solutions,” Bailey said. percent of poultry litter and other woody bio-grass The basic idea revolves around burning the for energy. excess poultry litter not used as fertilizer. Current- “In our proposal, we have identified how the ly farmers spread all the poultry litter across their plant actually reduces nitrogen and phosphorous fields and the litter ends up as run-off and dips into dumping to the bay,” Ingram said. “We came up the watershed, causing phosphorous and nitrogen with 2.3 million pounds of nitrogen reduction.” spikes. Fibrowatt plants meet the highest Environ- These spikes have led to an increase of toxins in mental Protection Agency standards, according fish that’s potentially harmful to both humans and to Ingram. marine life in the Chesapeake Bay. “Our plant takes the litter that produces the John Logan, a poulterer from Eagle Green chemicals and does something else with it,” Ingram Energy Inc., found that his own production had said. “In our process the nitrogen is released into environmental issues and wanted to find a way to the air as di-nitrogen and the phosphorus is con- resolve them. tained in the ash which can be used for other “I began to seek out a methodology and means projects.” to solve the problem,” Logan said. “It became obvi- Scott Laskowski from Bio-Burner, Inc., ous that this poultry manure could become a very paUL JONES / THE BREEZE successful anaerobic digestive project.” see POULTRY, page A4 TGhe S A finance comittee members Aaron Brown (right) and Priyen Patel (left) motioned an increase in UPB’s budget at the meeting on Tuesday. Psych through art Filmmaker creates documentary on late grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, psychologist By LAURA WEEKS Vesely traveled the world for There were also photographs of “famous people’s lives, people The Breeze three years interviewing his grand- Frankl rock climbing, a thera- who’ve really changed the psy- father’s friends, family, colleagues peutic activity that Vesely said chology world.” For Austrian filmmaker Alex and former students. The inter- his grandfather pursued until Frankl’s life maxim of over- Vesely, what began as a small viewees’ anecdotes of Frankl’s life age 80. Among the interviews are coming tragedy by searching for archive project of his late grand- and work illustrate the impression clips of Frankl speaking at Holo- meaning in life was one of the father Viktor Frankl turned into Frankl made on their lives. caust commemoration events and film’s messages. a documentary of transforming Frankl, who lost his entire family lecturing on logotherapy. The film reminded John Clarke, human tragedy into triumph. over three years in various concen- JMU psychology professor a second-year graduate student in While many students attend- tration camps, authored 39 books William Evans invited Vesely and the Clinical Mental Health Coun- ing Monday’s screening of over his lifetime. In 1991, The New Mary Cimiluca, CEO of Noet- seling program, of the importance “Viktor & I” credit Frankl, a Holo- York Times cited “Man’s Search for ic Films to JMU when he heard as a therapist to live out what you caust survivor, for establishing Meaning” as one of the “10 most about the completion of the film. teach. “logotherapy” — a psychothera- influential books in America.” Evans reads Frankl’s book, “Man’s “Once we’ve found meaning, peutic school defined as healing According to the American Jour- Search for Meaning” at least once so many things like anxiety and through meaning — the film isn’t nal of Psychiatry, Frankl’s work every year, because it “gave me a depression might be underlying centered around his experiments is “perhaps the most significant sense of hope that life is worth a lack of meaning,” Clarke said. or his tragedies at Auschwitz. thinking since Freud and Adler.” living.” “Viktor & I” had its first screen- “It’s a very personal film … He received 29 honorary doctor- Sharon Lockaby, a second- ing last week at the University of CORO EY CR WE / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER about the man who came up with ates from universities worldwide. year graduate student in the Mississippi, as part of a college Alex Vesley traveled the world for three years this concept, Vesely said. “It’s The film incorporates home Clinical Mental Health Coun- tour around the United States and collecting interviews from friends and family of his late Viktor seen through the eyes of videos of Frankl with his chil- seling program, appreciated the grandfather for his documentary, “Viktor & I.” the people who knew him best.” dren, grandchildren and wife. hands-on documentary about see FILM, page B4 NEWS OPINION S PORTS LIFE 3/1 INSIDE A3 Making money A5 Name-calling B1 Double the trouble B3 ‘Beer heaven’ Students get creative in order By refering to Obama as a Softball loses Tuesday’s An inside look at Capital to earn some extra cash. snob, Santorum continues doubleheader to Ale House’s premiere his mission to only appeal Radford University. selection of brews. to extreme conservatives. 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