http://www.newsobserver.com/BY KEVIN KILEY - Staff Writer
(Photo BY SHAWN ROCCO)RALEIGH -- Twenty years ago, Will Hooker began efforts to make N.C. State University's red brick campus more green.
Hooker's pleas fell on deaf ears. Administrators didn't want to require environmental classes for every student. They didn't want to hire someone to organize environmental projects.
"They basically laughed me out of their offices," he said.
Now environmentalism is all the rage. The green movement on campus is in full swing, with student organizations dedicated to the environment, departments focused on being more eco-friendly and an office assigned to organize environmental projects.
"They basically laughed me out of their offices," he said.
Now environmentalism is all the rage. The green movement on campus is in full swing, with student organizations dedicated to the environment, departments focused on being more eco-friendly and an office assigned to organize environmental projects.
And as if some cruel joke is being played on him, it comes as Hooker is too tired to lead the push.
At 65, after 30 years of teaching landscape horticulture and pushing environmental causes for the university, Hooker could retire whenever he wants. But he can't. Not yet.
At 65, after 30 years of teaching landscape horticulture and pushing environmental causes for the university, Hooker could retire whenever he wants. But he can't. Not yet.
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