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Photo by Jess Handwerk • jlhandwerk@csbsju.edu
One of.ce door shows evidence of a break-in, which occurred Monday.
CSB/SJU takes on
energy challenge
By Lindsay Smith
lasmith@csbsju.edu
If you haven’t noticed Johnnies with a little
more fuzz on their faces for a beard-growing con
test and lights turned off at Gorecki, then chances
are you don’t know about the National Campus
Energy Challenge.
This is the first year that more than 100
schools have competed in the energy challenge,
a national, month-long competition to reduce
energy consumption.
This is the second year CSB/SJU has partici
pated. Campus Greens and Echo are co-sponsor
ing events all month.
“We’re obviously reaching everyone because
it affects everyone,” said Echo President Bridget
Sitzer. “This month is important for students to
realize it’s practical (to conserve energy). It’s not
that hard. They shouldn’t see it as a choice, it
should be ingrained in all of us.”
Last year, St. Ben’s reduced energy consumption by two percent, said Danielle Butenhoff, the co-chair of Campus Greens.
Students won’t know whether CSB/SJU has
increased or decreased energy consumption
compared to last year until the end of the chal
lenge at the end of this month. But some are al
ready optimistic.
“This year has been more successful (because)
people are more aware of what’s going on,” said
Tom Kirzeder, the vice president of Echo. “We’ve
made a bigger impact.”
The best way to reduce ener
gy consumption is simple:
don’t use as much.
“The easiest and most
cost-effective thing is con
suming less energy,” said
Sophia Gossman, the
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By Kelsey Gustafson
kjgustafson@csbsju.edu
Jessica Kotek has back-to-back classes on the third .oor, but is persistently late.
The problem? Her classes are on different campuses.
At 10:50 a.m., Kotek has exactly 30 minutes to leave the Quad, wait in a bus line, ride to St. Ben’s and walk across campus to the Main for her 11:20 class. Long bus lines have made punctuality nearly impossible.
“I was waiting in line at SJU for 15 minutes the day it was -40 degrees, and was appalled by how long the Link took to get to Sexton,” Kotek said in an e-mail.
Other students have similar complaints.
“At St. John’s after 9:40s, the line is backed to the Music Building … It gets a little crazy,” sophomore Melissa Kieger said.
After analyzing the numbers, it is not surprising to see that lines are longest after 9:40 and 11:20 classes.
The Banner Web Self Service schedule shows that, on odd days this semester, approximately 1,780 students take 9:40 a.m. classes and about 1,720 taking 11:20 a.m. classes. Compare this to the 8 a.m. period, when only about 770 students are in class and the 2:40 p.m. period, when about 850 students are in class.
Transportation Director Michael Juntunen has felt the effects of these peaks.
“They laid out a lot of 9:40 classes — it’s really heavy,” he said. “The biggest key (to shortening bus lines) is to have tapered class schedules. That’s been brought to everyone’s attention,” Juntunen said.
Registrar Julie Gruska said 70 percent of classes are typically offered during 9:40, 11:20 a.m. and 1 p.m. periods.
St. Ben’s develops plans for health center
By Angie Schmitz
amschmitz@csbsju.edu
For at least the past five years, the nursing department at St. Ben’s has been pushing for a health center on the campus.
At least two proposals were submitted, said Kathy Twohy, chair of the nursing department.
“It went nowhere,” she said.
The recent buzz among students and administrators is that a health center on the CSB campus may become a reality in the next few years.
Vice President of Student Development Mary Geller said steps are being taken to develop a plan for health services on campus.
“We’re hiring a consultant to come in this spring, to look at a proposal and to do a study,” Geller said. “There are a lot of hoops to get through, funding being number one.”
Administrators are considering a plan to have a health fee — much like the activity or technology fees — put into CSB students’ accounts, Geller said. This is unlike the system at the St. John’s Health Center, where students pay for their services through insurance.
An important step in the planning process is to determine what services are needed by students.
“Services are dependent on staff, space and other resources,” said Health Promotion Coordinator Lori Klapperich.
Those working on the project are looking at other institutions for inspiration.
Staf.ng is another issue that needs to be considered, and Twohy hopes that faculty from the nursing department could become involved.
“The nursing department has the staff,” she said. The faculty also need a certain amount of clinical hours to keep their certi.cations, and a combined position in both the nursing department and a health center would be ideal for these employees.
The proposed health center could be more ef.cient for St. Ben’s students, but the St. John’s Health Center may see a negative effect.
“A health center on the St. Ben’s campus is going to impact us,” said Eileen Haeg, clinic manager of the St. John’s Health Center. “But it depends on how they’re going to set it up.”
About half of student visits at the St. John’s clinic are St. Ben’s students, Haeg said. This could make the current system there less cost effective.
The next step in the process is for the St. Ben’s Senate to become involved. A proposal will go to the Senate in order to get student feedback, Geller said.
The center is in the early preliminary stages, but it would ideally open in the fall of 2009.
“We’re looking at an integrated health educated plan with services for students,” Geller said. “It’s not just physical, but how do you become a good consumer of health services and making choices.”
Though the Registrar’s Office has worked with departments to spread out classes, students are resistant to 8 a.m. and 2:40 p.m. periods, Gruska said.
Despite this semester’s dif.culties, Juntunen believes that the transportation department is getting back on track.
He has added more buses to the heaviest class runs and is tightening up the times between them, he said.“We made a lot of changes this year. … It’s starting to come together.”
Graphic by Emily Pearson • eepearson@csbsju.edu
‘Vagina Monologues’ absent
CSB, other Catholic schools aren’t hosting play this year
By Kelly Smith
kmsmith@csbsju.edu
The ‘v’ word won’t be spoken at St. Ben’s this month.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of “The Vagina Monologues,” but this is the first time in three years that the play won’t be read at St. Ben’s.
Organizing the annual reading of “Monologues” fell through, canceling the play that has been associated with controversy at the hundreds of college campuses across the U.S. and world that perform the play.
“I was really angry,” said senior Kate Glueckert, who tried to organize the play in August, but couldn’t .nd a tenured faculty member from
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