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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Heather Kangas, her green superhero cape covered with the season’s first fat snowflakes, had only one question for her fellow Towson University students scurrying past.
“You like winter?” she asked.
“Because all that could change.”
Dressed as “Captain Climate,” Kangas and other Towson students demonstrated in the snow Wednesday to raise awareness about global warming.
They plan to ask the Board of Regents, the governing board of the University System of Maryland, to make the state’s public colleges more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.
Suggestions include turning off lights and computers when they aren’t needed, constructing buildings with green materials and buying locally grown food.
Students plan to present their proposal to the regents Feb. 15.
Sophomore Valerie Streets, dressed as a windmill, and freshman Lindsay Keeney, a smokestack hat atop her head, boxed each other with red gloves, acting out the fight between clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power, and dirtier ones such as coal.
Celebrities, including Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio, have pushed global warming into the consciousness of many college students, making a “world of difference” between the awareness among students last semester and this semester, said Kangas, a sophomore political science and metropolitan studies major.
So far, Towson students have collected 2,000 student signatures on a petition they hope grows to 13,000 systemwide, said Erica Stout, a sophomore studying sociology.
Stout helped launch the Maryland Student Climate Coalition, which represents students from most of the system’s 11 universities.
Students at other Maryland colleges also demonstrated or planned to this week.
At the University of Maryland, students constructed 9-foot wind turbines, while Frostburg State University held a “black-out,” where students shut lights off to conserve energy.
kvolkmann@baltimoreexaminer.com
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Examiner Reader said:
Ben, there’s yet another disgusting antisemitic page at the official Barack Obama campaign web site, by a group calling itself “Socialists for Obama.” This group of Jew-haters has apparently been at his site since April, and there are numerous comments from Obama supporters that are indistinguishable from the hate speech you’ll find at neo-Nazi sites. Why are you silent?
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Examiner Reader said:
Ben Cardin is a typical pro Hamas, pro illegal alien, pro big government, pro tax and spend Liberal fascist who is on the wrong side of every major issue. History will not be kind to him or his alter ego: Barbara. The real mystery is why Jewish voters continue to vote for him. It’s lunacy.
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Examiner Reader said:
Ben Cardin - why do you people keep putting idiots like this in office. Cardin/Mikulski/O'Malley - never had a real job and don't give a damn about anybody except whomever is lining their pockets.
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Christina said:
Who/what is your source for the claim to #2 in US? I haven't found any information to back up your claim. Plus, I'm quite interested in finding out who #1 is.
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Mark said:
And the indoctrination of our youth continues. When are colleges going to start teaching kids how to think instead of telling them what to think ? This whole man-made connection has been fabricated by those with a specific agenda and proven false. Scientists are jumping off the bandwagon. But... the indoctrination of our youth continues.
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Southernfarmer said:
(Sung by Al Gore- to the tune of Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire) The earth is a precious thing, in the past 100 years, the temperature has risen half a degree higher...so clearly, the Earth will soon be a burning ball of Fire. CHORUS: Our whole world will be a burning ball of fire...polar bears drown, drown and the seas get higher...our whole world, a ball of fire, a ball of fire. (Hear part of it on Paul Shanklin's website!)
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Southernfarmer said:
There's no doubt that it'd be wise to cut emissions for the hell of cutting emmissions. BUT MANKIND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR GLOBAL WARMING. Ya ever heard of ice ages and warming periods....yeah, we left an ice age 50,000 years ago and we are in a warming period. Duh. You LIBERALS HAVE not only been duped by Democrats on Iraq, you are being duped with Global Warming. Stupid lemmings.
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College Republican said:
-Ann Coulter on Global Warming: "Scientific facts are not subject to liberal bullying — which, by the way, is precisely why liberals hate science." -March, 21, 2007 -Ann Coulter of Al Gore: "Never mind his carbon footprint — have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's." -March 21, 2007
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Examiner Reader said:
yeah i think that people should start doing more and more things to help this and get people to agree.
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Examiner Reader said:
Global waring is a joke. It is not called Greenland for nothing. Now it is covred in ice! How can you predict the weather for the planet when you cant even predict the weather in SF properly???? it is all about the White House. The left will do and say anything to get elected. and if they do, God forbid, we will turn into the peoples republic of america. Socialism has failed time after time. Do you leftites read any history???
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Examiner Reader said:
Trust your great leaders to do the right thing, it is a moral obligation for all rich and poor nations to take immediate actions in regards to global warming. What was accomplished remains to be seen.
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Examiner Reader said:
I think they better do something. before the earth burns up. The world was first destroyed by water the next will be fire.
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Roger C said:
Just turn Laurie David and Sheryl Crow off. I don't care what they spew. I know they don't think. Hollywood trying to tell Main street what to think, while they do what they want.
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