The Collegian Vol. 54 No. 15 Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. Friday, March 4, 1994 Engineers win award Grovers break for pace-change for recycling ideas By DOROTHY KELLY 40s and 50s.: dent of the island, she had an Collegian Staff Writer Nice weather had a different Most of us spent our "spring" almost impossible time leaving meaning for freshmen Amanda the country she once called break filling out tax and Harrison, Grant Wentzel and scholarships forms, looking for home. Her passport expired Camilla Wood and sophomore jobs, watching the Olympics, during her visit and it was only Monica Reinhart. working and enduring snow- with a few suspect Harrison had a chance to talk "adjustments" that she was storms. But there were those to waiters in Morocco and eat who snorkeled in the able to afford the new passport Moroccan food for the first Caribbean, toured the Ba- and return to the United States. time. She also enjoyed Norway hamas, saw the first concen- And Monica Reinhart de- at the EPCOT Center at Dis- scribes her trip in her own tration camp, ate in Morocco, ney World, admitting, "Florida words: and argued with officials in was warm and beautiful, and I Costa Rica. "Two weeks ago I had no needed clue Junior Jason Carfagna had Wentzel took a Caribbean free airline tickets and took a I'd be in the Bahamas, water cruise, but paradise isn't al- clear blue. friend to Germany to "see the ways perfect. He went on a sights." They had a rare oppor- The sun so bright and tan so snorkeling expedition, but "on dark. tunity to actually see Dachau, the way there the bus got in a Be careful in the ocean be- the first concentration camp wreck, and on the way back it cause there's sharks. ever built. Having been to broke down." Now I'm back in the snow Germany before, Carfagna Things didn't go any and cold, summed up the trip: "Nice smoother for Cami Wood in And the weather in Grove weather. It was in the upper Costa Rica. As a former resi- City is getting old." Vienna Choir Boys to sing Tuesday Grove City College nary survey, Greene projects mechanical engineering that Grove City's 2,500 senior Julie Greene thinks households generate 160-190 she's found a better way to tons of curbside recycled recycle domestic garbage. garbage per year, worth Evidently the American Soci- approximately $15,000 on ety of Mechanical Engineers today's scrap market. (ASME) agrees, because they Residents experienced a $2 have awarded her $2,000 to monthly fee increase when investigate her ideas. mandated recycling was Greene and faculty sponsor begun in 1990, which means Dr. Mark Reuber are co-win- that Grove City spends ners of the undergraduate around $60,000 per year to scholarship competition spon- recycle less than $20,000 sored by the Solid Waste Pro- worth of garbage. "Obviously, cessing Division of the recycling handling costs ASME. They share the envi- greatly outweigh the value of ronmental award for the the reclaimed material," 1993-94 school year with observes Greene. another student/professor Greene's idea is to: (1) sort For nearly five centuries the team from MIT. Emperor Maximilian I to fulfill and crush recycled trash at Vienna Choir Boys have en- naiveté of childhood with his wish to have choristers in Junius W. Stephenson, home to greatly reduce its chanted millions with their artistic maturity -- something the Imperial Chapel. From its scholarship chairman for the volume, (2) reduce the fre- unique charm and exception- that can only be achieved inception, this organization has ASME's Solid Waste Process- quency of recycled trash pick- ally beautiful singing. And if through serious work. Those attracted the finest musicians ing Division, in a letter con- who wish to be considered for up, and (3) have trucks pick you're one of the lucky few, in the west: In 1767, Mozart gratulating the winners, said you have a ticket to this Tues- entry attend a special prepara- up only one type of recycled spent his most creative years the judges were impressed by material at a time (for exam- day's sold-out concert, to be tory school where they receive as composer to the Hapsburg the "interest in and sensitivity ple, milk-jug plastic or alu- held at 8 p.m. in Pew Fine a thorough education which court in Vienna and wrote for to the nation's solid waste includes training in the theory minum). Currently, non-com- Arts Center. the Imperial Chapel. and practice of singing as well management problem." pacted mixed garbage is col- Greene's proposal is enti- lected once per week and From the time of their first as instruction on one musical Although Josef Haydn was sorted by hand and machine visit to the United States in instrument. At the examina- tled "Optimum On-Site Recy- not a member of the Imperial cling of Post-Consumer Plas- 1932, the boys have given tion, which the candidates take at a regional recycling center. Chapel, he experienced the life tic" and focuses on improving Recycled garbage can't be thousands of concerts and have at the age of nine, musical of a choirboy, and many of his the cost-effectiveness of compacted before sorting and become perhaps the most pop- ability is the decisive factor, ir- works are to found in their ular choir ever to tour North respective of creed or social home-based plastics recycling large centralized sorting cen- repertoire. The greatest America. Each season, they standing. in the Grove City area. Her ters are expensive. prodigy, and without a doubt carry on the rich traditions of Through their films, record- study has already included a Vienna's musical life as a liv- the most famous choirboy, was fall-semester 22-house survey "A simple home-based Franz Schubert, who sang as a ings, television appearances ing heritage that traces its roots and tours, the Vienna Choir which proved just how diffi- recycling plant holds tremen- choirboy from 1808 to 1813. to such figures as Mozart, Boys have delighted audiences cuit plastics recycling has dous potential," says Greene. Haydn and Schubert. become. "Several states now charge Anyone who has seen the worldwide with their programs of costumed operettas, sacred "Expressed as a percentage garbage fees based on the vol- boys, either in rehearsal or in of total volume, plastics are ume of trash left by the home- The Vienna Choir Boys were songs, and secular and folk performance, soon realizes the the majority of our domestic founded by Imperial decree on music, amply justifying their owner; pre-sorting and com- secret of their fascination: they renown as the world's most recycled waste, but are worth July 7, 1498 by the humanist have managed to combine the pacting recycled trash could beloved choir. the least," explains Greene. reduce pick-up fees by up to She found that the typical 50%." Greene and Reuber are Grove City resident recycles experimenting with a home- 2-4 pounds of garbage per based recycling plant that in- Gala set for next weekend week, with 60% of the total cludes an inexpensive trash volume (about five gallons) compactor and bins for eight In the tradition of past years, fair. Last year's Gala proved to occupied by plastic, but only categories of recycled the Student Government As- Gala will be similar to last be another success. 20% of the scrap value of the garbage. sociation announces the Sec- year. Students, faculty and Approximately 1500 people Greene says that Grove ond Annual President's gala on staff members will perform waste coming from the plas- filled the IM Room. A variety Saturday, March 12 from 8-12 musical acts of various styles. tic. City's problems are not of acts took the stage, includ- p.m. in the IM Room. Appetizers, desserts and fresh "Low-volume materials unique and that national recy- ing folk groups, planists, vo- cling costs are similar. She The first Gala took place in fruit will be served. like glass, steel and aluminum calists, instrumentalists and 1992 to honor the inauguration Invitations have already been are worth 2-10 times more per also notes that if her award- bands. Dr. Combee also joined winning idea works here, it of College President Jerry H. sent to the campus community. pound than plastics," says in and performed "Johnny B. Combee. Due to the event's Dress will be semi-formal, so Greene. Based on her prelimi- "will work anywhere." Goode" with the jazz ensem- tremendous success, SGA de- get out your best clothes and ble. cided to make it an annual af- get ready for a night of fun, The format of this year's food and entertainment.