Pedal power thrives at CC

A CC senior has found an innovative way to make the campus a bit greener, and she could use your help.

Joanna McClintick '07 is opening a student-run bicycle co-op called "Spokespeople" with a grant from the Athena Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy. The award was established and is partly funded by with a gift from Trish May '75.

Spokespeople will help students fix their bikes, build bikes and distribute otherwise unusable bikes for use by others on campus and in the New London community.

McClintick is seeking donations of bike tools and bikes. For more information, e-mail her at jkmcc@conncoll.edu . Her wish list includes:

bike pumps
bike stands
rim tape
chain tool
tire levels
multi-spoke wrench
cone wrenches
allen wrenches
freewheel remover
patch kits
nock Pliers
needle-nose pliers
phillips screwdriver
pliers
wheel truing stand
WD-40
white lithium bicycle grease
helmets
bike locks
bikes