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We request notification three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the best of our abilities. Recycling guru changes othefdly students’ trash into treasure By April Towery The Battalion I f you do not recycle your garbage, Cassandra DeLarios will. “I think people are. kind of scared of me, because they know I’ll go through their trash and make them recycle,” she said. DeLarios, the assistant recycling coordinator of the Physical Plant and a senior geography major, began coordinating a recycling and environmental awareness program her freshman year. “I took a Coke can to someone in my residence hall and asked, ‘Where can I recycle this?” she said. "They just looked at me because there wasn’t anywhere for me to recy cle. It was a passion for me from that day on.” She began by motivat ing her residence hall to recycle, then she proceed ed to recruit neighboring halls on the Quadrangle, and she eventually got the Corps of Cadets involved. DeLarios said she has been recycling for as long as she can remember. \SADENA, Ca ime television’s ess at Sunday’s e Helen Hunt ar ors for best actii laly collected he ons for her role DeLarios recycles. “I've always been a pack rat,” she “Everything I wear is hand-me-downs or: resale store. I sew a lot and use the newspar#! 113 , 101 “ Cl 1 V. 1C things I already have to make crafts and gifts dschoolteae hei “I don’t look at things as trash. It soundss[ I think, 'Someone made this can and maybe one else can use it.’” DeLarios said she wants students to reafe cjing and helping the environment benefitseit: "It is going to help you in the long run, bee- might make fees lower, and you won’t haveto about messing upt she said. Sophomore agrii journalism major|e: fad About You profusely — tha ] series, Paul Re er stood in the v ithgow, who pi isehold studying The Sun, he ted his characte s television!” ;ay Walston, th ry Bone on the Swanson, said shed ' H ' sl SU PP ()I he second consi know the dorms had cling bins until recei “It’s not somethir. hear advertised," said. “I saw a flier fo: cling cardboard my dorm and won why there aren't any cling bins forCokea the dorm. I learneo there are recycling but you just haveto >hakui of your way to findiE is in critical nditio n nday. “I lived in Austin with my mom and we didn’t have someone to come pick up our cans and bot tles, so I collected all my plastic bottles on the back porch and would take them to a recycling bin at the end of the week,” she said. DeLarios invented the Ejwironmental Affairs Directorship for Residence Halls and served as the chair of the Environmental Issues Committee in Student Government “Student Government is very powerful and motivating,” DeLarios said. “The overall positive attitude helped me a lot.” This year, she began working as a teaching assistant for Dr. Roy Hartman, an associate profes sor of engineering technology, who became her "personal cheerleader.” “He is my mentor, a wonderful person,” DeLarios said. As assistant vice president of the Recycling Plant, DeLarios volunteered at recycling centers in the area, while also coordinating and participating in highway cleanups. “The key is motivation,” DeLarios said. “I want to teach people to teach people. It’s important to keep it going because it’s something we’re going to have to live with.” Cans and bottles are not the only items ✓ DeLarios said although student: Swanson still havef It was the locating recycle bin: ;ond shoot recycling program changed and grown her first campus. “I’m seeing thatii he changed,” she sai id got here in 1992, am th the law. Rachel Redington, Thi Battalion Cassandra Delarios has been an integral part of the recycling movement on the A&M campus have made progressir high-quantity areas. "It’s still where, and I be. We've started, we’ve barely the surface.” Hartman set up a course about recycling ini! “The course is a technical elective« Recycling anci Waste Management Stud Hartman said. “We have different teamsinthetl “Our teams process recycled milk jugsintol bees, set up apartment recycling, A&M papeitel Shakurand Krugl cling, and work at the recycling craw tginaco^y oj 7 . Smithville, Texas.” Hartman said working with a committedSadeif' like DeLarios has been a pleasure. “We need more students to be so dedicate realize the need for a clean environment,” he LAS VEGAS (Al pac Shakur and ; ny executive wer they rode down i (sino Strip, d Shakur l in ars two for involveme: akur, who s a history violence trouble Police didn’t I lakur and Death not ei lairman Mari wishita light were delibe or if the shoot scratc mi, ; said Me lokesman Greg M “It’s very unclea >me of his pas ime may think si ave singled IcCurdysaid. “Most students don’t want to do it because itdoi | make them a profit, but neither does garbage has a vision for a sustainable society." DeLarios said that she, too, believes she It vision for the future of environmental awareness “I guess my motto is just, ‘Recycle, dan® she said. Vineyard: a house kept by fait continued from pg. 3 another in a deeper way,” St. Joseph’s Vineyard has not always been a community house, it was once a daycare facility, an office building and a Planned Parenthood facility. The students originally wanted to develop a Christian community for eight male residents, but since the beginning, it has housed nine res idents, both male and female. This semester, 10 students reside in the Vineyard, five men and Rachel Redington, The Battalion David Reisinger, house leader, washes dishes after a house meal. five women. A spiritual and house leader are selected from among the residents at the beginning of the semester. “We are not chosen for our spirituality or development of it, but our ability to set a structure for a spiritual pathway to enable others to discover more about themselves and in turn benefit from each other,” Benson said. Each semester, the house members hold a retreat that is organized by the spiritual house leader. Benson said the retreat designates not only the spiritual direction the residents want to take the house in, but it is also a time for them to personally declare their own spiritual direc tions, allowing the other nine res idents to form a supportive envi ronment for their spiritual goals. Kristy Chanley, the youngest house resident and a freshman psychology major, said the sup port system can be beneficial. “You have your own goals to follow God, and it’s so much easi er when you have people to sup port you,” she said. The house leader’s main duty to the St. Joseph’s community is to deal with problems when they develop, make sure responsibili ties are fulfilled and guide the members of the house in their chosen direction. Alexis Thibodeau, fin coordinator for the house junior speech communicati major, said the housem commitment to each other deeper than everyday and devotionals. “We have a bond thatbrii closer — Catholicism,” she$< Mary Prikyl, a senior S[ major, is beginning her semester as part of thi loseph’s community. “This is not the place if* one is just looking for a pi* live,” said Prikyl. “Theymusi with our Christian and praf community. It’s a commie when you live here; we doll together as a community,” David Reisinger, house!' and a senior economics majoi having so many housemates'' he hectic at times, but it is no 1 “We do have conflicts, bu> are handled in a Christian-o® ed manner,” he said. Sherrie Evans, a house n 1 her and a sophomore mici c: ogy major, said while thei £: the house may not app fi most students, it is a unift 1 * ing experience. “It may seem like a chi! to live with nine other peopl‘ it’s a really good time,” she DELTA SIGMA PI FALL RUSH 1996 INFORMATIONAL KOLDUS III SEPT. 9 8:00 -10:00 PM SOCIAL BOONDOCKS BAR & GRILL SEPT. 10 5:30- 8:00 PM PROFESSIONAL * RUDDER 301 SEPT. 12 8:30 -10:00 PM SOCIAL KYLE FIELD PRESS BOX SEPT. 16 8:00 -10:00 PM INTERVIEWS* MSC 228, 229, 230 SEPT. 18 7:00 -11:00 PM PICNIC THE OAKS PARK SEPT. 19 5:00- 8:00 PM THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS J ‘Professional Attire FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL STACY PELL 846-5878 ^ * September 12 vs. Rice University *7exod s4c^ Soccer September 13 vs. U. of Kansas Ovei Bar! Cai or ^ore j