The Torch

Issue date: 11/1/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Curtis McCain Geo Bitgood and Joe Marino give Michelle Hovey more information on OSPIRG's new compost campaign. The campaign is among many events planned for the academic year.

The Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group has big plans for the coming year at LCC with a proposed campus-wide Dodge Ball tournament, a continuing fight for affordable text books, Sustainapalooza and much more.
Probably the most rigorous of OSPIRG's upcoming events would be the Don't Dodge the Issues, campus-wide Dodge Ball tournament that is being planned this term.
"I think it makes a lot of sense to have a big event that gets all student groups together. So, I want to have a dodge ball tournament … all students are invited to have teams, any student group can have a team and jump in. I want to get 15 or 20 teams all in the basketball court or in the soccer field depending on the weather," Joe Marino, LCC OSPIRG campus organizer, said.
Marino stressed how great he thought it would be for students to get involved in the event, mentioning clubs and groups across campus that he hoped would be willing to join in the dodge ball festivities in the hope of bringing forward issues they don't want to see dodged, before speaking on the upcoming hunger banquet that OSPIRG will be holding.
"This will be sort of a sister event to our hunger banquet which will be more of a professionally driven and adult style event at the end of the term on Nov. 16. It will also be a volunteer fair and a food drive, but we're basically working to highlight a lot of hunger and homelessness issues at lane through this hunger banquet. So the Dodge Ball tournament will go out with a big bang, have a lot of fun, involve a lot of students. The hunger banquet will involve a lot of community nonprofit groups and hopefully more faculty and staff from the school as well," Marino said.
OSPIRG's Sustainable Foods Campaign and students from Intro to Sustainability are currently working on a cafeteria composting project. The hope would be to lower the 21.74 percentage of LCC waste, which is attributed to cafeteria food waste which is currently not composted. So OSPIRG will be staffing a composting bin in the cafeteria from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Thursday for the rest of the term. The recycled food will help to provide compost for the campus gardens, which in turn will provide food for the cafeteria.

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