Campus briefs
Relay for Life moves on campus, to be held on Santa Clara Mall
The first ever Relay For Life of Santa Clara University will be held on the Santa Clara Mall this Saturday and Sunday.
The event, a 24-hour walk, honors the lives of people who have died from cancer and those who are currently fighting the disease. Relay for Life events nationwide raise money for American Cancer Society, an organization that does research to find a cure for cancer and support those affected by it. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the 24 hours. Teams also compete in fundraising for the event; the team that raises the most money toward the $25,000 goal receives a prize.
"We do a 24-hour event because cancer never sleeps and neither do we for a full 24 hours," said Allison Knapel, the event chair and a representative from ACS.
For the past four years, Relay for Life has been held at Townsend Field, down Lafayette St. from Dunne Hall. Because it was located off-campus, Santa Clara students partnered with members of the outside community to plan the event. This year, ACS rewarded the success of these previous relays by giving Santa Clara University its own relay apart from the Santa Clara community. As an independent relay, it was only planned by a committee of students.
"I am involved with Relay this year in order to get more Santa Clara students involved in such a great cause and to raise money to fight cancer," said sophomore Kaitlin Kevorkian, a member of the committee.
Several of the on-campus a cappella groups will be performing throughout the day and, of the 25 teams currently registered, several of them will be holding on-site activities in order to fundraise.
The event begins Saturday at 10 a.m. and runs until 10 a.m. the next morning. Teams are encouraged to camp out overnight on the grass areas in front of Kennedy Commons and between Benson Center and Kenna Hall.
Currently, 292 participants are signed up for the event. Relay for Life of Santa Clara University has raised $10,910 towards its goal of $25,000. Also, 25 teams have signed up, exceeding its goal of 20 teams.
Santa Clara lights up with green power
For the second year in a row, Santa Clara was honored as Individual Conference Champion in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's College and University Green Power Challenge.
The Individual Conference Champion Award recognizes the school that has made the largest individual purchase of green power within a qualifying conference.
Santa Clara, helping to reduce the school's environmental impact, was chosen because the campus uses more green power than any of its conference rivals.
The campus uses 23 million kilowatt-hours of green power, which makes up 74 percent of the school's annual electricity usage. Twenty-three kilowatt-hours of green power equates to the carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 2,000 American homes each year.
It is also the equivalent of taking 3,000 cars off the road.
Hackworth deadline fast approaching
The deadline to submit proposals for Hackworth Grants for Student Research in Applied Ethics is Monday, May 17.
Hackworth Grants are open to all Santa Clara undergraduate students, from all departments and schools. The proposed projects should contain an ethically significant component
The grants will help support the purchasing of materials, travel expenses or other expenses that make the student research possible.
Proposals must come with a resumé, academic transcript, budget and a letter of support from a faculty member.
The Hackworth Grants are made possible through an endowment from Michael and Joan Hackworth, supporters of the Ethics Center.
From Staff Reports. E-mail news@thesantaclara.com.