[409] Earth Day 2011: MTSU Student Groups Team Up To Raise Awareness

EARTH DAY 2011: MTSU STUDENT GROUPS TEAM UP TO RAISE AWARENESS
April 21 Events Free, Open to Public, Including Free Document Shredding

FOR RELEASE: April 12, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Dr. Mary A. Evins, amerdem@mtsu.edu

MURFREESBORO—Want to show you’re green while being true to the blue? Join MTSU’s Students for Environmental Action and the American Democracy Project Student Organization, who are sponsoring an Earth Day celebration on Thursday, April 21.
Students are circulating posters with the day’s itinerary, which includes a free document-shredding service, recycling information, music, special guests and vendors, all on the Keathley University Center Knoll.
All events are free and open to the public.
Earth Day is usually observed on April 22, but MTSU organizers moved up their event date to accommodate the Good Friday holiday and ensure that more people can participate.
“Raiders Recycle” T-shirts and tote bags, in bright spring colors and in tie-dye, will be for sale on the Knoll on April 21. The celebration is scheduled for 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., and events include:
• free shredding and recycling of documents by MaxShred of Murfreesboro, 10 a.m.-noon;
• acoustic music and a poetry slam, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.;
• entertainment by DJ B. Roll, 2-4 p.m.; and
• a yard sale by Young Americans for Liberty.
Special guests include representatives from Rover, Murfreesboro’s public transportation system; The Nature Conservancy; Procycling Bicycle Repair; the Center for Environmental Education; the Murfreesboro Electric Department; Origins beauty products; Scott Atkins for Kangen; and Drs. Cliff Ricketts, Charles Perry and Ngee Sing Chong , who will bring the latest green inventions.
For drive-through and drop-off of materials for shredding at MTSU’s Earth Day event, recyclers should enter campus from East Main Street onto North Baird Lane, turn right onto Alumni Drive and then left on Friendship Street to circle through the Davis Science Building parking lot. Students will unload papers there for shredding by MaxShred.
For more details, visit the SEA website at www.sea-mtsu.org or email amerdem@mtsu.edu.

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IN BRIEF: Want to show you’re green while being true to the blue? Join MTSU's Students for Environmental Action and the American Democracy Project Student Organization, who are sponsoring an Earth Day celebration on Thursday, April 21. Students are circulating posters campuswide with the day’s itinerary, which includes a free document-shredding service, recycling information, music, special guests and vendors, all on the Keathley University Center Knoll on campus. All events are free and open to the public. For speedy drive-through and drop-off of materials for shredding at MTSU’s Earth Day event, recyclers should enter campus from East Main Street onto North Baird Lane, turn right onto Alumni Drive and left on Friendship Street to circle through the Davis Science Building parking lot. Students will unload papers for shredding by MaxShred, so recyclers won’t even have to get out of their cars! For more details, visit the SEA website at www.sea-mtsu.org or email amerdem@mtsu.edu.


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