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* WCU Police Daily Activi- The Western Carolinian NEWS April 28,2016 AS WCU Police Blotter: April 1 - April 20 WCU News Services ties Reports Compiled by Emily Dorsey/Editor-in-Chief April 1: Larceny, Natu- * ral Science A student eRe repprted their cell phone stolen after leaving itina classroom. - April 1: B&E/damage to - property, Moore Offi- - cers found damage inside - of the Moore building. April 2: Drug violation, eee H Creek Lot PVA - A stu- dent was issued a campus citation for the posses- sion of marijuana. April 3: Suspicious per- son, off campus An indi- vidual notified officers - about a suspicious person at Dunkin Donuts. The individual was referred to the Sylva Police De- partment. April 4: Larceny, Rec Center A student reported an item stolen from the rec center. April 5: Involuntary commitment, Balsam A student was transported to the hospital after they were found to have harmed themselves. April 5: Second degree forcible sex offense, Vil- lage Officers received a delayed third party report about a sex offense that occurred on campus. April 5: Calls for service, off campus Officers took a third party report about concerning text messages sent to another student. The student sending the messages has since been transported to the hospital. April 6: Suspicious person, E. University Way A non-student was Ronnie Davia Staff Writer Lauren Bishop is the Director of Sustainabil- ity and Energy Man- agement and the Chief Sustainability Officer for Western Carolina Universitys campus. She oversees many things related to how students can thrive on campus withelectrical opportunities and com- fort, as well as monitors many technical systems. Bishop explained what the department she. works in actually is. Basically we have two parts here. First, we have the energy management piece of it, which is focused on the built part of campus. This includes the re- sources we need to keep the lights on and all the technical components, and our building auto- found passed out in a state owned van. Officers evaluated the individual and found that EMD was not needed and then transported them to their residence. April 7: Traffic crash, Coulter PVA An indi- vidual reported their vehicle struck by an un- known vehicle resulting in $400 damages. April 8: Damage to prop- erty, Courtyard Dining Hall A student received a state citation and UJC after damages were found to a wall in the dining hall. April 8: Calls for service, Scott A student was transported to the hos- pital after taking a large amount of medication. April 8: Larceny, Stillwell An employee reported an item stolen from their office. alarm at SECU. April 10: Alcohol viola- tions, Benton Seven students were issued campus citations for un- derage alcohol violations. Three non-students were banned from campus. April 10: Alcohol viola- tion, Reid A student was transported to the hospital due to alcohol intoxication. The stu- dent received a campus citation for consuming alcohol underage. April 10: Damage to prop- erty, Memorial Dr. A student reported damage to their vehicle tires. April 10: Damage to prop- erty, S Baseball PVA-A student reported damage to their vehicle after it was towed. April 11: Traffic crash, Central A vehicle struck another vehicle while attempting to turn April 9: Agency assist, off onto Central Dr. result- campus Officers assist- ed JCSO witha burglar ing in $950 damages. coming = ; mation system which can view all heating and cooling needs for the majority of campus online. We manage all of that. I have an Energy Manager named David King who does all of that. I handle the more global sustainability aspects for campus, and that is very broad and can mean many things. But if you wanted to put it in a nutshell, I handle systematic greening of campus, said Bishop. The project that many on Western Carolinas campus have been watching by due to its construction is the Elec- tronic Garden on the Green (EGG) which is directly adjacent to Scott Hall and the Western Carolina track. Not knowing what the EGG would do, or how it would do it, Bishop ex- plained how this project Photo by Breanna Taylor/STAFF The solar hammock lounge currently under construction on WCU's campus will be massively benefi- cial to student life. Essentially, itis a solar powered hanging lounge. Its going to be an open-air pavilion structure. It will have three rows and three columns with the means to hang your hammock between them. There will be a steel structure coming out of these concrete columns. If you wanted to envision it, it will kind of look like the overhang on the Bardo Arts Center. It looks like a structural tree. On top of that, we will have Solar PV panels above. If its raining or drizzling outside, the solar panels should keep someone below in your ham- mock dry. Of course, if its storming, or there are microbursts of rain, this wont prevent that. It should provide some coverage from the April 11: B&E vehicle/ fraud, Memorial Dr. - A student reported some- one broke into their vehicle and stole a credit card. April 12: Traffic crash, Camp PVA - An indi- vidual reported a dent in the side of their vehicle door resulting in $300 damages. April 12: Damage to prop- erty, Benton Students reported their door was tampered with. April 13: Larceny, Field- house PVA - A student re- ported items stolen from their vehicle. April 13: Welfare check, Scott Officers spoke with a student after receiving a report of con- cerning remarks. April 14: Fire alarm, Scott A fire alarm was activated due to steam from a shower. April 14: Fire alarm, Central A fire alarm elements. There are a variety of configura- tions to hang several hammocks. Our electri- cians are doing this all in-house. There will be outlets and USB ports in every column, and also, IT will be beaming wire- less to this location, she said. She continued, You'll be able to relax, study, social media, social- ize, whatever you want to do, we will have the capability for you to do that. We want to get stu- dents outside enjoying their natural environ- ment. Were right next to the creek. Were at the last hole of our disc golf course. So, if youre just finishing a game of disk golf, and you have your hammock on your backpack, you can just end and relax here. Average Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors, so this is another concept to make this happen. In many scenarios, solar panels only power local devices or structures and do not actually store all of the excess energy that they bring in, but the EGG has been mechanically designed to not waste a watt of energy. The panels will be powering the outlets and columns locally here, but we dont have a battery backup, so when this area isnt be- ing utilized by students we have a direct line to our grid and all energy absorbed by solar panels will go up into the book store when the power April 18: Fire alarm, Din- ing Hall - A fire alarm was activated due toa cooler malfunction. mag April 18: Traffic crash, oon Memorial Dr. A ve- hicle failed to yield when turning onto Norton Rd. The vehicle struck another vehicle resulting in $4,250 damages. April 18: Traffic crash, Photo by Breanna Taylor/STAFF was activated due to air freshener being used inside of a room. April 14: Alcohol viola- tions, Intramural Field Three non-students were found to have possessed alcohol at the intramural fields. April 15: Traffic crash, Centennial Dr. A ve- hicle backed into another vehicle resulting in $500 damages. April 15: Suspicious ac- tivity, HFR Officers lo- cated a student removing items from a dumpster. April 16: Larceny, Ramsey Center Officers received.a report of a stolen banner. April 17: Larceny, Al- bright A student re- ported medication stolen from their dorm room. April 18: Traffic crash, Baptist 4-Tier PVA-A vehicle was backing and struck another vehicle re- sulting in $300 damages. demand isnt high. There will be no energy waste, Bishop said. The architectural Centennial Dr. A traffic crash occurred resulting in $1,000 damages. April 18: Harassment, UC A student reported receiving unwanted text messages from a non- student. April 18: Traffic crash, Norton Rd. A vehicle was struck by another vehicle that left the scene of the crash resulting in $400 damages. April 19: Damage to prop- erty, Baptist 4-Tier PVA A student was found to have poured cat food on another persons vehicle. April 19: Suspicious behavior, Kneedler Of- ficers received a report that an individual was possibly intoxicated while bringing a child to daycare. April 19: Traffic crash, Central Dr. A vehicle struck another vehicle while attempting to back resulting in $2,300 dam- ages. April 20: Pedestrian struck by vehicle, Cen- tennial Dr. An individu- al reported getting struck by a vehicle while walk- ing through a crosswalk. April 20: Complaint, . Quad Officers received a complaint that someone was using chalk on ioe sidewalks. Sart New solar hammock lounge coming to campus our students You guys should design something that will be able to be submitted for an SEI project is being built fast proposal as well. There and the concept seems very unique. As far as we know, this is the first solar panel hanging lounge in the country. Not just at the university level, but we believe we are first in the country, said Bishop. There are many stu- dent led efforts on West- ern Carolina campus, this being one of them. The project itself is a design project from the engineering cap- stone course. So, three engineering capstone seniors designed this. At first, we started mentor- ing them on the project but we started with the green fee. There are about 2,000 schools across the country with a similar fee. This isa student approved fee that is taken up, $5, once a semester and that money is collected into a fund, and once a year we have a call for project proposal ideas and for the projects to be funded by this green fee, said Bishop. She continued, What we call this here is the Sustainable Energy Initiative. This was the first project to get funded by it. There isa student committee that oversees this project and was no guarantee in this. We had no idea if this proposal would be approved. They wanted something visible, they wanted something solar and they wanted some- thing that all students would have an opportu- nity to enjoy. We noticed that its very popular to hang a hammock here on this campus. Its turned into a verb. Eno- ing. Thats what the stu- dent team came up with. The committee approved it unanimously. The only people who voted on this are SEI commit- tee members, who are students. There are three types of appropriations that can be approved by SEI: brick and mortar proj- ects, which is what the EGG is, research proj- ects and creation of in- ternships. Any student, faculty or staff affiliate of Western Carolina Uni- versity can submit these projects for approval by the SEI. The ribbon-cutting _ event occurred on April 22, although construc- tion is still be underway. The project will be done hopefully next month in May. For more informa- tion about the upcom- ing Electron Garden on two other projects. Weve_ the Green or the Office been doing engineering capstone projects for a few years now. Now that SEI funding came to be the prior year, we told of Sustainability and Energy Management, you can contact Lauren Bishop at lbishop@wceu. edu or 828-227-3562.

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

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