Students revive newsprint recycling efforts
Michael Parr
Photo by Erich Boekelheide
By HARRY ESTEVE
Of lh* Emerald
University students are reviv
ing the practice of recycling
newspapers because of re
newed efforts by the Survival
Center, says Michael Parr, dir
ector of the center's Project
Intercept.
Parr, who took the reins of the
floundering newspaper recy
cling program in October, at
tributes its present success to a
combination of stricter man
agement and increased par
ticipation.
“Last year’s director wasn’t
interested enough,’’ Parr ex
plains. "He couldn’t get volun
teers, and what newspaper he
did collect he gave away.”
This year, those problems
have been corrected and
Project Intercept has grown and
prospered.
During fall term, 17 students
gathered newspapers from fra
ternities and sororities, emptied
the Intercept recycling barrels
and bundled the newspapers for
sale and delivery. Parr says he
expects to have as many as 40
students working this term.
Student volunteers receive
one hour of University credit by
writing three short papers in
cluding one environmental re
search topic.
The amount of newsprint be
ing recycled has doubled since
last year, and since October
Project Intercept has recycled
enough newsprint to save 160
trees from paper mills, Parr es
timates.
“Probably by the end of the
year we will be doing four times
as much," he predicts.
Besides the new management
techniques, Parr attributes
much of the project s current
success to University students.
In a recycling survey taken
early last term, students over
whelmingly supported recycling
as "worthwhile,” and a large
majority indicated they would
encourage recycling in their
homes.
The placement of 50 new col
lection barrels in dormitories,
University offices and the EMU
has helped turn the interest into
action, he says.
Along with saving trees, the
new project management could
earn a few dollars for the center.
After finishing his bookkeeping,
Parr says he should be able to
give the Survival Center about
$140 from the sale of the recy
cled newspapers.
Under Parr’s direction, the
project ended its policy of giving
away collected newspapers.
The project now sells them to
the Eugene Mission, a local
charity organization that pays
between $28 and $3§jger ton for
the papers.
Parr also says he is spending
less than his predecessor^ on
advertising, which has often ta
ken up a substantial portion of
the project’s budget.
The posters distributed last
year were “cute and dandy, but
to me they were a big waste,” he
says. The collection barrels
marked ‘‘Newspapers Only”
advertise themselves, he adds.
“By the end of the year I’d like
to make over $1,000 and save
1,000 trees.”
Besides the manufacture of
more newsprint, recycled news
papers are used to make
housing insulation, furniture,
sheet rock and other building
materials.
Nixon lawyer may block
release of Haig papers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ri
chard Nixon's lawyer threa
tened court action Tuesday to
keep Senate Democrats from
receiving the former president’s
tapes and other documents
relating to Alexander Haig, a
federal lawyer said.
The Democrats have asked
for all tapes and papers on
Haig's role in Nixon’s Watergate
defense, on Nixon administra
tion wiretapping, decisions on
bombing Cambodia and other
issues for use in hearings start
ing Friday on Haig’s nomination
to the secretary of state post.
Before Nixon’s resignation at
the height of the Watergaie
scandal, Haig served as White
House chief of staff.
Stephen Garfinkel, counsel
for the National Archives, said
Nixon’s lawyer, Herbert Miller,
served notice he would go to
court to stop the archives from
searching out the material the
Democats want for Haig’s con
firmation hearings.
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