<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: Marites Velasquez [mailto:marites@studentpirgs.org] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 7:55 PM To: Sinha, Gaurav Subject: Campus volunteer opportunity on campaign for public transportation<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p>Hi Prof. Sinha, Ohio PIRG is looking for Ohio University students who may be interested in volunteering with our new 21st Century Transportation Action Team on campus this fall. Student could learn leadership and campaign skills like organizing events, media outreach, managing volunteers or building a coalition while helping to improve alternative transportation options in Ohio. Could you forward the announcement below to your students? Feel free to contact me with any questions. Thanks in advance, Marites Velasquez Program Director <a href="http://www.ohiopirgstudents.org">Ohio PIRG</a><o:p></o:p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=602 style='width:451.5pt;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><tr><td width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:#000033;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in;background:white'><tr><td width=600 valign=top style='width:6.25in;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><img border=0 width=600 height=82 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part2.08090305.09060602@studentpirgs.org"><o:p></o:p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=596 style='width:447.0pt'><tr><td width=576 style='width:6.0in;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 align=right><tr><td style='padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 align=right><tr><td width=175 style='width:131.25pt;background:white;padding:3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt 3.75pt'><img border=0 width=300 height=241 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFE48F.450B79F0" alt="Join Ohio
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 Action Team"><o:p></o:p><div><div><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=BZyBONYKaVbI84XPT5iNVQ" target="_blank"><img border=0 width=180 height=31 id="_x0000_i1027" src="cid:part4.03050502.02090504@studentpirgs.org" alt="SIGN UP"></a><o:p></o:p></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>Hi,<o:p></o:p>Do you wish there were more public transit and bike lanes? Do you think fast trains are cool?<o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=T713wQlyD_6ySyPYFnAglg" target="_blank">Then join Ohio PIRG's 21st Century Transportation Action Team!</a><o:p></o:p>We're looking for passionate people who believe that Ohioans deserve a safe, clean transportation system that lets us all get where we need to go. We want government to stop spending so much transportation money on new and wider highways, and instead use that money to invest in public transit, bikeways, and repairing existing roads and bridges.<o:p></o:p>Cuyahoga County continues to fuel global warming by releasing thousands of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year – in 2002, Cuyahoga County ranked as the fourth highest emitter of carbon emissions in the nation, with 12.1 millions of tons emitted that year alone.<o:p></o:p>Despite this, we spend too much on highways and not enough on transit, bikes and pedestrian infrastructure. The state has been on a highway-building spree where earlier this year they passed a $3 billion transportation plan that is mostly going towards highway expansion. The state’s Highway Lobby is strong and wants to cash in on those highway contracts.<o:p></o:p>These are the wrong priorities, but especially because students have been leading the decline in driving and are increasingly riding public transit and biking.<o:p></o:p>By <a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=YkvM_STmSCc8C5baSlYpSw" target="_blank">joining the Action Team</a> you could intern or volunteer on the campaign on campus this fall and learn how to:<o:p></o:p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Organize transit days of action<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Mobilize the campus community<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Raise the voices of Millennials' preferences for alternative transportation options<o:p></o:p></li></ul><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=Zq6qBAZdmy6nVV4kbxuoSg" target="_blank">Click here to sign up.</a><o:p></o:p>Thanks, Marites Velasquez <a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=ap7GElveFFI9152CpPawJQ" target="_blank">Ohio PIRG</a><o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.webaction.org/site/R?i=JO9-nbpNjMdFifZ9uPaD9A" target="_blank"><img border=0 width=145 height=45 id="_x0000_i1028" src="cid:part10.08020700.07010102@studentpirgs.org" alt="Like Us"></a><o:p></o:p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div>You are receiving this email at <a href="mailto:marites@studentpirgs.org">marites@studentpirgs.org</a>. If you want us to stop sending you e-mail then please visit this web page to remove yourself: <a href="http://engage.convio.net/site/CO?i=gBccHDHPTKEZw4zypwssVd05AmtAdEZp&cid=1892" target="_blank">http://engage.convio.net/site/CO</a>.<o:p></o:p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><o:p> </o:p></div></body></html>

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