Saturday, March 30, 2024

Amy Oprean

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Knitting relaxing pastime for creative MSU men, women

You know you've seen them. Maybe not every day or every week, but you've seen them. You could be at a residence hall floor meeting, taking a walk in the park or having a cram session at the Main Library — and someone pulls out their yarn and needles. Of course, MSU students who knit have heard the old-lady lines — a lot. "I get grandma jokes all the time," psychology and German sophomore Claudia Molter said. Molter has been knitting since her grandmother taught her at around age 9, and she said it's a crafty way to give gifts and make items to donate. "My friends — probably because they do it, too — they all like it," she said.

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Conserving green

When Terry Link, director of the Office of Campus Sustainability, speaks to MSU classrooms about steps students can take to be more environmentally friendly, he asks the question, "How many of you have your computer sitting on, right now?" When most of the students raise their hands, he makes a projection: If the students in the class were representative of the about 17,000 students living on campus, then they are wasting up to a million watts of power an hour — depending on whether their computer is in sleep mode or not. What does it mean to waste a million watts of power an hour?