Drexel Green Reports and Recommendations Presentation Today at 3pm

Starting last October, eight different Drexel Green Committees of students, faculty, and staff have been researching what is being done at other colleges and universities with respect to sustainability, considering various national tests and criteria, and receiving “green ideas” sent to them via the Drexel Green website. With those data, they have been developing recommendations for Drexel University to implement over the next five years. The eight committees were: Academics, Buildings, Communications, Community, Events and Planning, Operations, Research, and Student Life.

The Committees will be presenting their findings and recommendations today, Monday, May 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm in the Mitchell Auditorium, Bossone Research Enterprise Center. The presentations are expected to take 90 minutes, with 30 minutes for feedback, comments, and ideas from the community. After the presentation, each Committee will finalize its written report and recommendations for submission to President Pennoni and adoption into a Green Strategic Plan for the University.

Drinks and snacks will be provided. The Bossone Research Enterprise Center is located on Market Street between 31st and 32nd Streets. To learn more about Drexel’s commitment to sustainability, visit the Drexel Green web site at http://www.drexel.edu/sustainability .

Well now! 2pm and I am standing in bossone, eating tiny finger foods flavored with the most amazing things. Sliced pineapple, melons, fruits of all types. Cheeses! Pepperjack! Smoked Gouda! Brie oreganato! Small croissants with sliced of roast beef! Whole wheat with Dijon mustard and honey smoked ham!

The list goes on and on!

Ah, 2:04pm, the seminar has let out, the amount of people is fairly large, most of the chem E faculty is standing in front of me, unaware I am writing about them, take that caincross!

Amazing food, no clue how the actual presentation went 😀 free food at it’s finest!

Sigma: “Dericious!”
Chern: “Oh the cheese is so good!”

After a rigorous hour of yoga at the DAC, where I saw our first and best ever follower, Diego, I was very excited to grab a delicious veggie burger and maybe some chips at Spring Fest. Barbecues are one of my favorite things. Much to my chagrin, when I left the DAC there were no people happily grilling over on Buckley. In fact it was thinking about raining and although it smelled lovely there weren’t many people out. I called Anthony VG to see if he had any more details but he had none. There were a bunch of people standing under a tent in the Rush Garden eating what looked to me like burgers but I didn’t want to be in such an enclosed area alone with all of those crazy christians. Not to mention that I wasn’t hungry.

Spring Fest

Review: poor.

Original story link

Review: Ant here, sitting in the event right now, doing some live blogging.
First Speaker – Dr. Adam Fontecchio
11:10am – Looks like an interesting talk, aparently this talk is about technology in engineering.
11:19 – Presented a slide showing how american’s decline in math and science as they age, where international students (k-12) increase in math and science.
11:22 – They’ve developed lesson and unit plans. It involves building things with k’nex.
11:25 – Lol, he put white text on a yellow slice of a pie chart. More importantly, turns out the ratio of m’n’m’s color is not even distributed, it’s based on cost of the pigments, shattering!
11:26 – Grassroots efforts; EPICS (epics.ecn.purdue.edu)
11:32 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPNQGmCMv1E

Second Speaker – Orlando Gutierrez
11:40 – Orlando is an older individual, “the old guy with an accent” as he put it. And awww, he isn’t familiar with ppt, but they let him make one.
11:42 – As a speaker, the man is knowledgeable, however for this is reading from the slides, a no-no in my book.
11:45 – “Everything we have created has been developed by engineers,” said Orlando, not wavering from his stance that the slide rule is the only mathematical tool a man needs.
11:47 – Wow…the number of BS engineering degrees hasn’t changed more than 10,000 since ’91… amazing.
11:48 – Lol, he said “let’s see what happened in sex”. Females in engineering has stayed at like 15% since ’91.
11:54 – How do we increase female participation in engineering? It’s a combo of how they’re brought up (which is horse *$#^ if you ask me). How do we fix this? He cited NCLB as a success… I now disagree with all of his points, NCLB is the worst thing that happened to this country. Old men will be old men I guess.
11:58 – How do we spread engineering as engineering students? Lead by example guys. I (him) am an old man, you guys don’t wanna listen to me, so you have to go talk to them, you have to be the ones to get your message across.
11:59 – Talk still on-going, no food yet.
12:00 – Cited the statistic that 50% of freshmen and sophomores drop out of engineering, 97% of juniors go on to graduate. We all can fix this, help your younger brethren.
12:01 – Talk over. Conclusion: “I think that enigneering is the salvation of the world… we are not going at engineering the way we should, but we can solve this problem.”

FOOD REVIEW!!!!!!
Om Nom Nom

Food location: 1st floor
Mmmmmm turkey sandwich. Nice sodexho food.

There were also free cookies and pretzels out front of MacCalister <3