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              THE MAROON VOL. 86, NO. 6  WWW.LOYOLAMAROON.COM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2008 Loyola receives poor sustainability grade By RACHEL BUHNER CONTRIBUTING WRITER In a recently published study ranking, the environmental sustainability of college campuses in the United States and Canada, Loyola received a D grade, a minor improvement from last year's D- rating. The Sustainable Endowments Institute, the organization that issued the report, based its ratings on nine categories, ranging from food and recycling practices to green building policies. According to its Web site, http://www.greenreportcard.org, the report card was developed to identify colleges and universities "that are leading by example in their commitment to sustainability." The Web site also states that the purpose of the report cards is to "provide accessible information for schools to learn from one another's experiences, enabling them to establish more effective sustainability policies." Loyola scored below the national campus average of C+, but Robert Thomas, chair of environmental relations, said the poor grade does not fairly represent Loyola's current environmental policies. He said the university scored so low because no one filled out the surveys. According to the rules of the study, universities who did not respond to the questionnaires or declined to participate received their grades based on research from public sources as well as the university's response to the 2008 report card surveys.surveys."Students shouldn't take this as an indictment against our university's attitude," he said. "We just didn't fill out the forms." Thomas said his recent attempt at submitting the forms was refused by the organization, and that next year's Classes rely on service experience By JESSICA ERWIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Kelly Brotzman, director of the Office of Service Learning, is one of many people on campus dedicated to making "service learning" part of the classroom curriculum. Brotzman began working on Aug. 1 with two stated goals: to expand the number of course offerings that incorporate service learning across all colleges and all departments and to support people who are currently practicing this approach in their teaching. According to the Office of Service Learning Web site, there are currently eight classes that incorporate service learning into the curriculum. After Hurricane Katrina, Brotzman said there was no full-time director for the Office of Service Learning, and the availability of support on the administrative side wasn't available. "Faculty that wanted to do service learning had to take a do-it-yourself approach," Brotzman said. For faculty that continued service learning over the past two years, it shows "how devoted they really were" because there is "a lot of work that goes into (incorporating service learning)," she said. Frank Jordan, biology professor, is also one of those devoted to keeping service learning in his curriculum. Jordan has been teaching at Loyola since the fall of 1997. He first introduced service learning into his classes about three years ago. Senior puts heart into cancer event By STEVE HEATH NEWS EDITOR UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMING BOARD Mass communication senior Ashley Woolledge got the news about her mother early in the morning two weeks ago as she was getting ready for class. Jeanie Wooledge, 48, came into her daughter's room, asked her to sit down on the bed and told her she had been diagnosed with melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer. A little over a week later Ashley decided to organize an event to help raise cancer awareness at Loyola. With the help of fellow University Programming Board workers, psychology sophomore Tracy Kinamore and biology freshman David Garcia, Woolledge has put together an hour-long event with speakers and corporate sponsors in a matter of days. "We're bringing awareness to the student body, both men and women, about breast cancer and cancer," Ashley said. The event is scheduled for Oct. 14 and will take place in the St. Charles Room of the Danna Center. In the past UPB has held events to raise awareness for breast cancer during October - the national breast cancer awareness month - but this year Ashley wants to include speakers and information on all types of cancer.Rebekah Eutsler from Ochsner Hospital and the Project Pink Junior Teen Queen Kelly Woolledge. Ashley's sister, will speak to students about cancer prevention. Ochsner Hospital and West Jefferson Hospital will have representatives present. Ashley said she is trying to get an expert from the Susan G. DAN HELFERS / THE MAROON Ashley Woolledge, mass communication senior, prepares for the cancer awareness event in the Hub. Aimed to educate students on cancer prevention, University Programming Board will sponsor the event on Oct. 14. Business students participate abroad in microfinance program By ALLISON SICKLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER Making coffee is not a part of every internship. Finance senior Diego Rios and finance and economics senior Robert Swanton learned that after working for the Grameen Bank and Association of Social Advancement in Bangladesh this summer. "We were going around on the backs of motorcycles on little dirt roads to little tin shacks to meet with borrowers," Swanton said. Rios and Swanton interned to learn more about microfinance in order to aid development of a microfinance program at Loyola University. Swanton said he and Rios performed financial analysis at the Association of Social Advancement and Grameen Bank headquarters in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and traveled to different Bangladesh villages to do fieldwork - meeting borrowers, distributing loans and visiting those having difficulty repaying loans. "I think we were more involved in learning and structuring how to operate the microfinance institution here in New Orleans," Rios said. Loyola alumni Elliot Sanchez, A'oB, Aaron Kirsh, A'oB and Nicole Kone, A'oB, concocted the original proposal for a student-run microfinance program at Loyola University and received a $5,000 grant from the Bill Clinton Foundation. Loyola's Student Government Association committed to a $5,000 contribution per semester for the next three or four semesters, Swanton said. According to Rios, he discovered about a week ago that they received another grant worth $2,000 from the Bill Clinton Foundation. 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