Discarded books find way from dumpster to library
By Ed Carson
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Two Eugene residents learned that the difference
between required class textbooks and trash is loc ation,
location, location.
Connie Berglund. a Student Health Center employee,
and a friend discovered a dumpster behind the Bookstore
filled with coursebooks. some of them still in their plas
tic wrappings.
"I was furious to see this many hooks go to waste."
Berglund said.
Not content to see the hooks end up in the dump, the
two loaded oil of the books in a pickup and took them
to the Eugene Public Library.
The Eugene Library will add some of the hooks to its
collection, and the rest will he donated to the Friends
of the Library for its annual book sale fundraiser
Berglund wondered why the Bookstore couldn't do the
same.
• Why couldn't they donate them to the library7’' she
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Unwanted books till a dumpster behind tha University
Bookstore. Bookstore officials said they throw away out
dated books they cannot find a home lor.
said.
However, according lo University Bookstore Course
book Department Manager C hris .Standish. the Bookstore
did donate books to the Kugeno Library, bill it doesn't
want all of the liooks the Bookstore has to offer
"We donate hooks to the library, hut they've asked us
not to send large quantities of particular liooks They end
up taking them to the dump if we have 41) or 50 iopies
of a single book, they don't want them." he said
Standish said the Bookstore does try to find "homes
for books it has no use for
"We send some liooks overseas where they have some
use for them." Standish said
The Bookstore maintains the books that end up in the
dumpster are books that no one wanted
"They have no value, they are not resalahle." Standish
said.
Berglund ( ritici/ed the Bookstore for not ns yeling the
textbooks However, Standish said the Bookstore has htittn
unable to find anyone who will res vi le bound books
"Hounded materials are real tough to ns ycle We have
to find someone who can take it apart." he said
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either tuition or taxes, it does relv on
the University to provide certain
administrative services such us
human resources administration,
budgeting and bookkeeping.
And as the University faces the
growing budget shortfall caused by
Measure 5, it must look to other
sources for revenue. Kyster said.
"The decision makers are faced
with a terrible dilemma.” he said. "1
iiave to assume that this was the least
unpalatable option of several unpalat
able options."
Forrest doesn't buy that argument.
"If that's the limited scope of their
thinking, then they need to think
harder," she said.
"This would be well and good if
we were some of the richest students
on campus." she said "As a matter of
fact, it s like a reverse sliding scale.
Most of us are among the poorest stu
dents on campus.”
Todd Newman Barnhart of the
Westmoreland Tenant's Council and
co-chairman of the Family Housing
Board, said the decision to charge the
$300,000 fee "isn't made on any sort
of sound study.
"I don't know what basis it’s made
on." he said. "Nonetheless, they're
assessing it, and the more I think
about it. the more unfair it seems to
me."
He said the University Budget
Office could not provide him with
specific costs for the support the Uni
versity provides, and he lielieves the
$300,000 figure is merely and "edu
cated guess."
Forrest, a graduate student in Inter
national Studies, echoed that senti
ment.
"When we have actually pressed
them for specifics (and asked) how
muc h do we cost?.' they don't know."
she said "Most of their rationale so
far has not been something they c an
show us on paper. They're asking us
to totally trust thorn on this, and I'm
sorry. I don't.”
However. Dan Williams. Universi
ty vice-president for administration,
said the $300,000 "is a very legiti
mate expense."
Williams said that, in the past, the
University has not charged the full
cost of the services it provides
"Now that the University continues
to have this finam ial crisis, it's been
decided that we ought to recover
some of the indirect costs the Univer
sity incurs" in providing admmistra
tive support.
Williams acknowledged that the
$300,000 figure is not based upon any
clearly documented costs, hut said.
"I'm sure the housing department
enjoys more than $300,000 worth of
benefits from the indirect services the
institution provides."
Williams said the University plans
to study the actual costs during the
1993-94 school year
"When we get a clearer definition."
he said, "my guess is the amounts
will he larger It doesn't necessarily
mean that we'll collect those."
Forrest said some housing admin
istrators have told her that several
departments are being asked to do
their share in the wake of Measure 5
cutbacks and that accepting the
assessment is the housing depart
ment's "duty.”
"It's like this patriotic thing." she
said "They're saying because we live
in housing it s our patriotic duty. Hut
it's not our duty We re already pay
ing more — we re students
"It would be like only taxing ath
letes, or only taxing people who take
Spanish."
Williams said he understands why
some people are unhappy with the
increase.
"It lends itself to a lot of misunder
standing." Williams said "When you
have never done it before, and you
start doing it and it's reflected in peo
ple's (rental) rates, the response is.
'What the hell is going on?' "
•They’re asking us to
totally trust them on
this, and I’m sorry, I
don’t.’
Nancy Forrest
Amazon Tenant's Council
Eyster said ho fears the ini rease
will force some students to leave tint
University
"Many of these people are, m fai t,
living in poverty out) have c ome to
the University as a means of pulling
themselves and their families out of
poverty through edui niton." he said
"At one point, they thought an edu
cation was within their grasp, and
they had a possible means of pulling
themselves out of poverty. Now. for
at least some of our residents, they
don't see a way they ore going to be
able to continue." Eyster said
Forrest said many students in fam
ily housing do not have similar finan
cial means as other students.
"It’s really distressful." she said.
"Most of us do not get help from
home We live on student loans and
are supporting dependants "
Forrest also criticized the Universi
ty for "backing away from its man
date to provide low income housing
for student families "
Forrest said she's aware of one
Amazon tenant who sublets her
apartment and. with her five chil
dren, lives in a tent during the sum
mer Forrest said the woman receives
no financial aid during the summer
and cannot afford to pay her rent.
Fyster said he is sympathetic to the
plight of students.
"It's very emotionally draining to
fie so close to that kind of suffering."
he said.
Forrest was more direct in her sum
mation.
"This is all very bad." she said.
IFC approves
funds transfers
By S.A. Clemens
The throe-mumher Summer Incicientnl Foe
('.ommittee approved money transfers for sever
al student groups Monday However, it did not
approve the student-run radio station's request
for a line-item budget for the summer session
IK, allowed FSCAI’K to increase student
stipends during the regular sc hool year by elim
inating stipends that were supposed to lie used
for the summer session
"Due to the fat t that the lJniversity those not
to fund the fat ulty adviser and theC.TF position
for the summer, we decided to close the office
for this period." said KSCAPK Diret tor fennifer
Swinehart in a spec ml request memo. The eight
slutlent positions will ret eive the same amount
of money, hut the stipends will la' received over
a It) month |>eriod rather than the 12 month peri
od that was originally spec ified in the group's
budget.
Safertde will also lie re allocating funds Mon
ey that was sup[M>sed to go to a student co-direc
tor of the program, who left the program and was
never replaced, will now lie used for a summer
position The program hopes that adding this
position will make the transition into full term
smoother because it will enable Saferide to catch
up on unfinished business from last year
The Committee denied KVVVA (KM HH 1) its
request to have a line-item budget for the sum
mer The IFC said that having such a budget,
which would allow KWVA to transfer certain
funds without IFC approval, would subvert
the safeguards that prevent student groups
from misusing funds.
The ASUO Finance Department is also
adding another summer position by re-allocat
ing funds ASUO Head Comptroller Tin Bui
said that an extra comptroller for the summer
would allow him time to "revamp and over
haul the current accounting system " The
funds for the- new stipend will i ome from
money left over from last year's Finance
Department budget
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