This blog (cross-posted from Students for a Sustainable Campus’s blog) was written by student Zoe Keller about a recent action on MICA’s campus- showing the strong student support for sustainability!
When a small group of Students for a Sustainable Campus members met with Fred Lazarus, Timothy Millner, Dusty Porter and Mike Molla last year, the administrators asked how many MICA students really care about sustainability. SF/SC seized MICA’s Town Hall Meeting as the perfect opportunity to respond. The MICA Town Hall Meeting is the big meeting between administrators and students that happens once per semester. Spring 2010’s Town Hall took place on Wednesday, February 17th in Main 110. Even with the school closed due to snow for the week leading up to the meeting, SF/SC still managed to gather 241 signatures in a creative petition.
Town Hall meetings have, in the past, used an index card system to ask questions; instead of raising your hand and directly asking an administrator about building hours, for example, you filled out your question on an index card and the moderator (the SVA president) sorted through the index cards and read as many as time allowed. SF/SC members wrote out 5 important questions about sustainability on a huge stack of index cards, and students were asked to sign the card with the question they felt most passionately about.
Although Wednesday’s Town Hall unexpectedly abandoned the index card system, allowing students to stand up and speak
