Annual Leadership Awards Announced
Wittenberg’s Office of Student Involvement Recognizes Students, Faculty, and Staff
Students, faculty, and staff members have shown their resiliency, creativity, and willingness to adapt despite disruptions by the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone came together to make this academic year as ‘normal’ as they possibly could, even if that meant reimagining events, or hosting them virtually and outside.
One such event, the 10th annual Student Leadership Awards, were announced via social media for the second-straight year with hopes of returning to an in-person event next year. Honoring student organizations, advisors of the year, and unsung heroes, as well as celebrating diversity, health and wellness, and contributions to spiritual life, 12 awards were announced throughout the day on May 5.
How students can move out sustainably a year into the pandemic
Amanda Tsang/Staff
Last Updated May 13, 2021
As the number of COVID-19 vaccinations among UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff increases, the campus’s plan to transition to in-person activities brings me hope for the future of our community. The light at the end of the pandemic’s tunnel is finally becoming visible, and we should reflect on the ways it has transformed our sustainable practices and how we envision campus waste disposal.
Earlier this semester, the Student Environmental Resource Center’s Zero Waste team and the Zero Waste Coalition partnered to create a series of infographics highlighting the intersectionality and environmental justice aspects of zero waste on UC Berkeley’s campus. In the report, both organizations concluded that the “communities affected by campus waste are disproportionately more Latinx and Black” and that these communities face more severe health impacts from a broken
Bridget Lasda currently serves as the Chief Customer Officer at the King Juice Company. She worked for 14 years within the Coca-Cola system after graduating from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in special education in 2002.
With a productive career in the business world in tow, Lasda is now running for one of the three available alumni-elected positions on Penn State’s Board of Trustees. She sat down with Onward State to discuss the upcoming election and several of her goals if she’s able to join the board.
“I could not have thought of a better decision or university for myself. I absolutely loved my time here,” Lasda said. “I didn’t really know anyone…But quickly I met some friends. I just loved the bigness of it.”
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Sisters of the University of Georgiaâs chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma said they joined the non-Panhellenic Council service sorority to reap all the benefits of traditional sorority membership with fewer of what they considered drawbacks: pricey dues, group in-fighting and discriminatory selection processes.
In February, some members said they started experiencing some of the downsides they joined Gamma Sigma Sigma to avoid.
After a tweet about a memberâs racist blog post went viral, the organization fractured. Over the month, many general members of the chapter and all but one member of the chapterâs executive board resigned. A group of departing members has since founded a separate service society.