Students protest Victoria's catalog
Fifteen AU students held a rally outside a Victoria's Secret store on Connecticut Avenue last Thursday to protest the logging of old-growth forests to make the store's catalogs.
"I thought it went very well," said Jerry Crosby, logistics organizer of the event. "Victoria's Secret needs to stop sending so many catalogs, because 5 percent of them are actually read and the other 95 percent are thrown out. ... It's a waste of paper."
Victoria's Secret, a subsidiary of Limited Brands, issues more than 395 million catalogs each year, according to the AU student group Eco-Sense.
Students cheered outside the store to attract attention and also persuaded people to sign postcards addressed to the Victoria's Secret CEO asking for the chain of stores to stop getting the paper used for its catalogs from the Boreal Forest in Canada.
"We also delivered a letter to the manager of the Farragut North store we protested at, asking for them to stop sending so many catalogs," Crosby said.
The main goal of the students' campaign is to get Limited Brands to achieve 50 percent post-consumer recycled content in five years and to reduce the amount of catalogs it sends out annually.
- KATE OCZYPOK
'Pandemic on Aids' viewing moved
The viewing of the documentary "Pandemic on AIDS" that was cancelled last Thursday will be rescheduled at a later date, according to coordinator Eric Jost.
The film was scheduled to play at 8:15 p.m., but was canceled because the WVAU team arrived later than expected.
"Ideally we'll try again in a week or two, but finals are going to be a problem," Jost , a student, said.
The program had previous conflicts as well. The original documentary to be aired was supposed to be "Growing Up in the Age of AIDS" by ABC News, but the film was checked out.
According to Jost, he spent a month in preparation for the night and was surprised to see 25 students turn out for the event.
"I was expecting half that," Jost said.
-KHAI HA
