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<\/a><\/p>\nJackson State University<\/strong><\/p>\n Senior mass communications major and \u00a0The Blue and White Flash Associate Editor, Taylor Bembery of Detroit, has been named a semi-finalist in the Toyota Green Initiative \u2018Green Your Campus\u2019 competition, where she will represent Jackson State University against 16 other students in the SWAC and CIAA conferences.<\/p>\n Part of the competition is to implement a program on campus that will help students become more conscious of the impact they have on the environment. Bembery will host a \u2018Green Your Campus\u2019 event on\u00a0Friday, April 4, on the Gibbs-Green Pedestrian Walkway from noon to 1 p.m. to promote her \u201cDon\u2019t Drive To Campus\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n Bembery will give away T-shirts, water bottles, gift cards, and reusable totes that were donated to her from Whole Foods Market in Jackson. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n She \u00a0encourages students who live on the main campus or in a one- to two-mile radius of the university to ride their bicycles or walk as much as possible to class, the gym and campus events. This will not only decrease the release of pollution from unnecessary driving, but will increase students\u2019 daily physical activity.<\/p>\n Bembery\u2019s campaign correlates with her ultimate goal to have bicycle and walking lanes called \u201cTiger Trails\u201d around the JSU campus.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will not only help the environment, but the lives of Jacksonians,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Bembery has lost over 70 pounds since April 2012 and is passionate about decreasing the obesity rate in Mississippi. She hopes winning the\u00a0competition will give her a platform to achieve her goal of implementing \u201cTiger Trails.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>