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The 1992 Thomas tour bus runs primarily on vegetable oil and promotes the National Outdoor Leadership School. Transforming the bus
took less than one week and $12,000. It also features three solar-powered modules.
Vegetable-oil fueled bus
parks rock wall on campus
Members from a leadership school visit the University
to speak about outdoor education, environmental issues
BY ANTHONY LUCERO
NEWS REPORTER
University students were intro
duced yesterday to a bus that runs on
vegetable oil and saves enough ener
gy to project film by using solar pow
er modules, in addition to having a
climbing wall on one of its sides.
The bus is part of a nationwide
tour sponsored by the National Out
door Leadership School, which offers
worldwide courses that range from
one week to a full semester. Students
can study a variety of outdoor techni
cal skills including backpacking, ca
noeing, caving, rafting, snowboard
ing and wilderness medicine.
“We want students to know that
we teach technical outdoor skills and
outdoor leadership skills,” Ashley
Lewis, a NOLS member, said. How
did this bus become a spokesvehicle
for a cleaner environment? For about
$1,200 and less than a week’s labor,
the NOLS crew was able to convert
the engine of the 1992 Thomas tour
bus to use a more efficient and safer
fuel. The bus has a diesel tank that
warms up the engine for five min
utes; then, with a simple flip of a
switch, vegetable oil transfers to the
engine to make it move.
“Diesel engines were originally
built to use peanut oil,” Nate Kratz, a
member of NOLS, said. To prove his
point, he said he configured his own
1975 Mercedes 300D to
use vegetable oil. He
added that his modified
Mercedes gets 30 miles
per gallon.
The bus doesn’t have
access to regular gas
stations, but Lewis said
it hasn’t been hard to
refuel.
“We go along —
some places have peo
MORE ONLINE
More information about NOLS
can be found at www.nols.edu,
and a Web log that details news
of members’ countrywide
bus tours is available at
nols.blogs.com. Information
about using vegetable oil
fuel can be found at
www.journeytoforever.org
pie who want to help us with grease
so they give us extra or show us
where we can find some,” she said.
The bus’s solar array, composed
of three separate solar-powered
modules, can store up to three
days of power if it is sunny for half
a day. That energy is used to power
the NOLS office, which includes
three work computers and a
projection screen for NOLS
presentations.
“I think it’s cool, and (conversion
to) biodiesel is an amazing program,”
freshman Katie Goldberg, a general
science major, said.
Students who join NOLS can learn
more than one technical skill in a se
mester. According to the NOLS Web
site, NOLS/University of Utah college
credit can be earned through 400 col
leges and universities nationwide, and
many otter their own cred
its to students who take the
courses. Students in the
program range in age from
14 to 70, Lewis said.
NOLS also offers 15 full
tuition scholarshipsthrough
SpinCo Medical Products.
Lewis said scholarship ap
plicants must be 14 to 22
years old and cannot have
guardians who earn more
than $90,000 per year.
After taking a river kayaking
course for a semester, Lewis said she
joined the nationwide trek on the bus
to introduce students to NOLS.
“It was so surreal being outdoors
because it made you feel really
small,” Lewis said. “It gave me
a real appreciation for outdoor
conservation.”
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Policy: Activist hopes change will spur others
Continued from page 1
University Law Professor Dominick
Vetri wrote a memo to the Standing
Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexu
al and Tfansgender Concerns advis
ing it about possible policy changes.
He agreed that transgender people
were not adequately protected by
the old policy.
“(The change) came about be
cause of a real need that existed in
the University community that I
think is a result of changed times,”
Vetri said. “It seems more and more
transgender people are coming out
in the University community.”
Vetri said he learned about
discrimination toward transgender
individuals when he sat on a Eugene
committee that looked into the
possibility of amending the city’s
non-discrimination policy in a
similar way. Although he said
the city didn’t adopt the changes,
Vetri continued to research
non-discrimination codes used
throughout the country to protect
transgender people. He later
recommended that the University
make a change.
“We thought it would be an ap
propriate thing to do for the Univer
sity,” he said.
Vetri said he was not aware of
specific problems that necessitated
the change, adding that it is a for
ward-thinking measure that will al
leviate future potential for discrimi
nation.
“I’m immensely pleased,” he said.
“It’s better to deal with this affirma
tively before problems crop up.”
Chicora Martin, director of LGBT
Educational and Support Services,
who also helped facilitate the rule
change, said the policy met with lit
tle opposition.
“I think it’s going to be a fabulous
addition,” Martin said. “It will for
malize our commitment not to dis
criminate.”
Martin said she hopes the change
will spur other departments to look
for areas where they may unknow
ingly discriminate against people on
an arbitrary basis.
She also emphasized that Univer
sity members who want more infor
mation on the policy can contact the
LGBT Educational and Support Ser
vices office, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisex
ual, Tfansgender, Queer Alliance of
fice or the Standing Committee on
LGBT Concerns.
parkerhowell@dailyememld.com