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"Green" lectures come to campus
Janhavi Purohit
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: News
Drexel University, in an initiative led by Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff Carl "Tobey" Oxholm III, is introducing a six-part lecture series about environmental sustainability at the University.
Oxholm's office is spearheading efforts to make Drexel more environmentally-friendly, and put the lecture program together with the help of six committees of Drexel students and Vice President of University Facilities, Robert Francis.
The first of the six lectures was held April 10 and dealt with waste-handling and recycling, according to Mike Smith, director of Facilities at the University City campus.
"We want to provide information to people who are interested in the topic, giving them a chance to ask questions and offer advice and suggestions, and help us decide how to move on," Francis said.
According to Francis, the lectures will be mostly informational, and will allow the audience to get a better understanding of how Drexel's environmental programs work.
"There's generally not a good understanding of what our recycling and waste-handling programs are, and I'm certain that people would be interested in finding out how our campus did in Recycle Mania," Francis said. "We want to hear input from people in respect to what programs they're interested in seeing us develop and continue."
Oxholm said plans to start a program of this kind have been underway since he first took a position at Drexel.
"When the President asked me to become executive vice president, I said I would be honored to work with him," Oxholm said. "I'd been working with him for six-and-a-half years, and I said that the one thing I would really like to do is to try to get for Drexel a master plan, the way we have one for academics and buildings, around the sustainability and environmental issues."
Oxholm said he has received support from President Papadakis for the program.
"From the moment we first talked about this, it's something he's committed to, and something that I'm really excited about," Oxholm said.
Oxholm's office is spearheading efforts to make Drexel more environmentally-friendly, and put the lecture program together with the help of six committees of Drexel students and Vice President of University Facilities, Robert Francis.
The first of the six lectures was held April 10 and dealt with waste-handling and recycling, according to Mike Smith, director of Facilities at the University City campus.
"We want to provide information to people who are interested in the topic, giving them a chance to ask questions and offer advice and suggestions, and help us decide how to move on," Francis said.
According to Francis, the lectures will be mostly informational, and will allow the audience to get a better understanding of how Drexel's environmental programs work.
"There's generally not a good understanding of what our recycling and waste-handling programs are, and I'm certain that people would be interested in finding out how our campus did in Recycle Mania," Francis said. "We want to hear input from people in respect to what programs they're interested in seeing us develop and continue."
Oxholm said plans to start a program of this kind have been underway since he first took a position at Drexel.
"When the President asked me to become executive vice president, I said I would be honored to work with him," Oxholm said. "I'd been working with him for six-and-a-half years, and I said that the one thing I would really like to do is to try to get for Drexel a master plan, the way we have one for academics and buildings, around the sustainability and environmental issues."
Oxholm said he has received support from President Papadakis for the program.
"From the moment we first talked about this, it's something he's committed to, and something that I'm really excited about," Oxholm said.
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