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| Future May See New Campus Recreation Center | ||||||
| CSULB students may soon be able to vote on approving the creation of a new recreation center. | ||||||
| The "Resolution in Support of a Sustainability Policy," written by Conservation Commissioner Dana Lebental, requested that the A.S. Senate adopt a new policy that would enforce a building rating system created by the U.S. Green Building Council. �The Council developed the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System to "implement high energy/water efficiency, conserve natural resources, and create healthy indoor environments, all resulting in substantially lower operating, maintenance, and healthcare expenses and higher occupant productivity," according to the resolution. | ||||||
| The program would officially start by the creation of a new student recreation center that is estimated to cost a total of $103,500, according to Richard Haller, executive director of A.S.I..� "If we are to create a recreation center," Haller said, "the cost would be $53,500, plus a $50,000 certification cost." �Despite the seemingly high-cost of the plan, Haller assured the Senate that it is actually cheap, and said that the cost would have been fully recovered over about 30 years. �"The benefit of doing this," Haller said, "is public relations, and shows that [A.S.I.] is trying to be environmentally conscious." | ||||||
| Even with the current budget crisis, Haller said, he still feels that this would have an important enough impact on the school and would be worth it. �A.S.I. Vice President Guido Piotti noted that this resolution was especially important because this is "one of the only types of fees students actually get to vote on." | ||||||
| The Senate passed the resolution and sent it to the Documents & Bylaws committee for further revision. | ||||||
| In other news, Piotti announced that the Armenian and Turkish Student Associations have come to an agreement to draft a joint resolution denouncing genocide. �This issue has been a heated debate with the Senate chambers for over five months now, and Piotti said he and the Senate worked very hard to encourage the two groups to come to an agreement such as this. | ||||||
| Criminal Justice Professor Harvey Morley reminded the Senate to be extremely careful in remaining neutral when deliberating about the future resolution, and said that if they do not take this into consideration, they could be "opening up the gates of hell." | ||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2004, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | ||||||
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