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Editorial : Student Association’s Project Impact creates new way for students to get involved

By Editorial, The Daily Orange Editorial BoardThe Daily Orange

The Project Impact program recently implemented by Student Association helps students create a visible effect on campus through planning and creating their own initiatives.

Groups must fill out a form and interview with the Student Engagement Committee. The committee will pick the three most feasible initiatives. The cabinet will elect one group to carry out its initiative with a $250 budget.

Students should take advantage of the opportunity and think about what initiatives can best benefit the campus. It allows students to play an integral part in the initiatives on campus. Sean Dinan, SA Student Engagement Committee chair, compared the scale of the projects to an SA initiative in Ernie Davis Dining Center that lead to unnecessary lights being shut off after a certain time.

One possible initiative, for example, would involve all the dining halls on campus. The university has sustainability programs, including a composting program that helps solve the problem of food waste. But if there is some left over food that cannot be served in dining halls because of food regulations, then the food could possibly be donated to a soup kitchen or food pantry.

Students can help the community with this initiative. Transporting the food could become a job for a few students. The project would have a visible effect on the amount of food thrown out in dining halls while helping those in the city who could use an extra meal.



Another possible initiative is to expand the late-night escort services on campus. Because of high usage, the service often gets backed up and students may have to wait for longer periods of time to get home safely. An initiative to expand the services already offered would help increase the reliability of the program.

Students have until March 9 to form a group, create an initiative and fill out the application. SA members must then think carefully about the proposals and help put into place the initiative that will have the largest effect on students. 





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