Share your college radio station with the Nation.

This fall (2012) mtvU is giving college radio stations the opportunity to present an episode of The College Radio Countdown. Each week the staff of a different station will be chosen to play the ten hottest videos on campus and getting the gig is easy. Just email the following information to collegeradio@mtvu.com.

1. Pick your ten favorite videos and list them from 10 to 1. There’s one catch. The videos you chose have to be available on MTV.com. There are 20 thousand videos available so there has to be something you’ll like. The best way to go is to pick your top ten, then search for each video on MTV.com. If it’s not there, or it doesn’t play, pick another.
2. Write a short paragraph describing your station and why you picked the videos in your countdown. We don’t want a paragraph on each video, just one that gives a sense of why these songs are so hot on your campus.
3. Attach your station logo and a group picture of the staff that you’d like to see posted on mtvU.com.
4. List your College or University, Radio Station call letters and numbers, any station nicknames, and the name and email address of your station manager.
5. The stations that are chosen will be invited to film an intro that will air on mtvU and mtvU.com.

Lindsey’s Top 10 Green Tips

1) Become a “localvore” and start going to your local farmer’s market to find fresh and delicious foods! Eating locally means that less gas is used and less exhaust is created in getting the food from the farm to your table. Eating locally also supports local farms and businesses, and, in my opinion, food I buy at the farmer’s market is better quality than the same food I could buy at the grocery store.

2) Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth! You can save up to 8 gallons of water a day by not running water while you brush in the morning and at night.

3) Don’t flush your old prescriptions! Eighty percent of U.S. streams contain small amounts of human medicines because of citizens flushing their unused prescription medications. This means that very small amounts of medicine can get into your drinking water! If you don’t want it to end up in someone’s glass, throw it away instead.

4) Bring reusable bags to the grocery store and the mall. This reduces the amount of plastic and paper bags used and produced.

5) Take the bus! Public transportation use saves the U.S. 11 million gallons of gas a day-that’s 4.2 billion gallons of gasoline a year! (www.apta.com/gap/policyresearch/…/facts_environment_09.pdf)

6) Replace incandescent lightbulbs with fluorescent bulbs and save yourself $6 a year on your electricity bill. Compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or CFLs, also use 75% less energy and produce 75% less heat than traditional lightbulbs (http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=LB).

7) Turn off the light when you leave a room and you could save up to $40 a day on your electricity bill!

8) Take a trip to Goodwill! Buying secondhand clothes saves you money, helps to reduce waste that could otherwise end up in a landfill, and I’ve nabbed some amazing vintage finds at secondhand stores! (The dress I’m wearing for mtvU’s Dean’s List was $8 at a consignment shop!)

9) Your refrigerator is the single biggest power consumer in your house. You can save energy by adjusting your fridge’s temperature settings for different seasons, making sure that the seal on the door is working properly, waiting until food has cooled down before putting it in the fridge, and putting food that you want defrosted in the fridge the night before you want to use it.

10) Ditch the treadmill and go for a run or a walk outside instead. You’ll get some fresh air and save the electricity that you would have been expending while using an exercise machine.
 

Here are my top 10 favorite videos, my “sanity soundtrack,” that has kept me energized during those all-nighters and helped me procrastinate far too often (which of course means they are fantastic).

I dedicate these to the graduating class of 2011—congratulations on surviving college and making it to the real world. Next stop: retirement!

10. We the Kings — Check Yes Juliet
9. Say Anything — Shiksa
8. Cobra Starship — Guilty Pleasure
7. Black Keys — Tighten Up
6. OK Go — This Too Shall Pass
5. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros — Home
4. Regina Spektor — Fidelity
3. Matt and Kim — Daylight
2. The Hush Sound — Honey
1. Hanson — Thinking ‘Bout Somethin

10. The XX – Crystalised
9. Miike Snow – Burial
8. Martin Solveig – Hello
7. New Boyz ft. Dev – Backseat
6. Adele – Rolling in the Deep
5. Benny Benassi – Cinema
4. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know
3. Chiddy Bang – Truth
2. N.A.S.A – Gifted
1. Afrojack – Take Over Control