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St. John's finished in the 35th percentile across New York State and in the 46th percentile across the nation in its first year in Recyclemania, according to the results released on April 17. Recyclemania is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored 10-week national recycling and waste minimization competition from Jan.
St. John's gained a new ally in the business field over the weekend when Dr. Muhammad Yunus, one of the world's leading figures in microfinance and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, visited to announce a partnership between the University and Grameen Bank. Originally established in Bangladesh by Yunus, the bank is known for giving small loans to people who are unable to secure loans from standard banks in an effort to lift them out of poverty.
Sophomore Kyle Collins is in the process of organizing a student-led initiative to create an official lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) group on the Queens campus by petitioning students and co-sponsoring events on campus to increase awareness.
Rwandan Genocide survivor and author Immaculée Ilibagiza will deliver the commencement address at this year's graduation on the Queens campus, University officials announced yesterday. Ilibagiza is the author of the New York Times best-selling autobiography, Left to Tell, which chronicles her 91 days spent in a bathroom with seven other women to escape the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
It seems time does not heal all wounds. The community living near the latest St. John's off-campus residence building, located on 172-14 Henley Road, said they still are unhappy over their incoming college neighbors, nearly two years after the University's first announcement of the dorm's construction.
This year's room selection process has undergone some major changes. Instead of being a one-day process, it is now taking place over the course of an entire week, from Monday, April 20 to Friday, April 25. Dominic Petruzzeli, director of Residence Life, said he feels a week-long room selection is more beneficial to everyone in the long run.
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