Sen. Renee Pierce, Manship School of Mass Communication, announced the sustainability committee of the Staff Senate is working on a plan for a wide-scale recycling system in Tiger Stadium at the Staff Senate meeting Wednesday.LSU is the only school in the Southeastern Conference aside from Mississippi State University and University of Georgia without in-stadium recycling. MSU and UGA both have plans which are not yet in effect, Pierce said.”Yes, we are behind the curve, but with the Sustainability Office, we have people in place to help bring this change to campus in a positive way,” Pierce said.Recycling bins are in place outside the stadium and University officials have had conversations with stadium vendors about gathering their cardboard for recycling, Pierce said.”The best thing would be for the fans to pick up their trash and recycle it on the way out,” Pierce said. “We want strategically placed bins at the portals and have fans bring their cups and bottles and put them in the bins. The second part would be when people go through and clean up to separate the recyclable material from the garbage.”Pierce said the committee is in talks with TAF and the Athletic Department to figure out the next steps in formulating a legitimate plan.Campus Federal President and CEO John Milazzo announced at the meeting Campus Federal Credit Union began financial literacy classes for University staff and students who would like fiscal help in the current hard economic times.Milazzo said Campus Federal is willing to tailor the classes to any group’s schedule and location and design a curriculum to suit the a group’s exact needs.”We can talk about anything from basic financial transactions … to buying a house,” Milazzo said.Campus Federal has worked with University Facility Services and off-campus groups on these fiscal classes, he said.Any group seeking to participate in such a class can contact Campus Federal to set a class up, Milazzo said.—-Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at [email protected]
Stadium recycling project in the works
September 16, 2009