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and portable snacks when students rushing between classes and can operate “at off peak time and midnight” when other food suppliers are closed. lack of food supplier between classes and at closing time of dining halls is exactly that problem in our campus that the solution, the Cougar’s Food Truck, can fix. In addition, the food trucks in this article utilizing Twitter to help student track food trucks’ locations when they…

certain destination over the lunch hour for food, known as open campus. The last time this was available was my 7th grade year. Nowadays, school lunches are lacking. As high school students, we are always running and gunning and burning endless amounts of energy. When school lunch comes around, us students have a large appetite. School lunches will definitely not fill up a hungry student. What is the perfect solution? Allow open campus. This will allow students to run to the local…

There seem to be numerous groups on a college campus, each sharing at least one particular cultural trait in common. However, there is one group on campus that is composed of people from different cultural backgrounds and walks of life. These are the international students. This is an ever growing subset of those attending an American university, making up almost 820,000 students across all colleges and universities in the United States during the 2012-13 academic year (Institute of…

Girls for Gender Equity Survey Group Project Nicolette Archul, Amanda Kimball, Amanda Mahoney, Lauren Schreiber STC 332 Quinnipiac University Girls for Gender Equity Survey Research Project The following report is a survey research analysis discussing Girls for Gender Equity’s survey research project. Introduction Girls for Gender Equity (GGE) is an organization that works toward promoting women’s rights and giving them the opportunity to live self-determined and self-sufficient…

first day at Vasquez. They are all extremely blurred and in no specific order. I remember being extremely scared to go to high school. The old campus was filthy, small, and looked pathetic. Initially I had attempted to join Virtual Academy, but my mother insisted on sending me here for at least a semester. I had no interest in this school, in the campus, or in any of the students save a couple of my close friends. On the very first day of high school I felt lost and small. I was intimidated…

protesters with billy clubs. They hospitalized over fifty people and there was blood all over the road. Inequality and racism is still an ongoing issue in society today. The University of Missouri’s student group called the ‘1950’ is demanding changes on campus because of racial slurs, harassment and the n-word…

involved on campus. Starting a new organization can seem overwhelming, so here is an overview of how to get the process started!! Step 1: Start looking for an advisor on campus who is interested in sponsoring your organization. Advisors can be faculty/staff at the University or alumni of the University. If there is an alumnus in mind for the position of advisor, she/he would have to be approved by the Assistant Vice President of University Services. Step 2: Gather interest on campus for the…

to address climate change impacts on campus a vulnerability assessment of Smith College was developed. The assessment was developed by looking at literature on expected climate change in the region, and by talking to stakeholders both on campus as well as at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the city of Northampton. This information was then broken down by season and a map was created to illustrate areas of possible concern on Smith College’s campus based on the seasons. These…

Lyons uses real life shootings, to connect on an emotional level. She starts the article telling a story of a very fatal day. “As students and faculty walked across the Ohio State University campus in Columbus on Nov. 28, third-year student Abdul Razak Ali Artan suddenly plowed his car onto a busy sidewalk, got out and lunged at bystanders with a butcher knife. In less than two minutes he had wounded 11 people before a university police officer arrived and fatally shot him.” (1) This excerpt…

the security on campus is terrible. Even though college police are supposed to by law to investigate and adjudicate sexual assault complaints from their students, they have repeatedly proven unwilling or incompetent to do so. In fact, the Department of Education now has eighty-four US schools going under investigation for not treating cases of sexual assault. Some people would disagree that the ways for preventing and…