‘Plate Club’ encourages waste reduction
Holy Cow Cafe In the EMU
gives patrons the option of
using reusable plates and
utensils fora $5 deposit
Andrew Black
Environment/Science/Technology
The food at the EMU’s Holy Cow
Cafd is fresh, organic and flavored
with a healthy spoonful of smiles.
But for restaurant co-owner Kathee
Lavine, there had always been some
thing about the business that left a
bitter taste in her mouth. Ever since
she first began peddling pad thai and
chow mein back in 1997, Lavine has
been stewing about the trash.
“Waste has always been a little grain
of sand in our oyster,” Lavine said.
So following on the heels of an
EMU waste audit that revealed paper
plates and plastic utensils make up
13 percent of EMU Food Services
waste, Lavine has cooked up a plan
to take a bite out of trash. Lavine
said Holy Cow patrons now have the
option of using reusable plates and
silverware with a $5 deposit.
“We’ve been trying to do this for a
year, but it has taken us a while to
get our ducks lined up,” Lavine said.
The plates, which were pur
chased for last year’s Willamette
Valley Folk Festival from an ASUO
grant, are being rented to the cafe.
By providing reusable plates, Holy
Cow will incur extra labor expenses
"We believe one's food
choices are a powerful
political statement:"
Kathee Lavine
Holy Cow co-owner
and a $155 per month charge to
lease a dishwasher. Despite the in
creased cost, Lavine said she thinks
waste reduction is worth it.
“We believe one’s food choices are
a powerful political statement,”
Lavine said. “We want to decrease
our footprint on the planet and reuse
things rather than throw them away.”
Doctoral student Jackie Schwandt
said recycling is an important part of
her lifestyle and added that she was
drawn to the cafe because of the new
reusable plates.
“I want to contribute toward
stopping the amount of garbage
that is thrown away,” Scwandt said.
“I had never eaten at Holy Cow be
fore this week, but then I saw the
Plate Club.”
The recent EMU Food Services
waste audit also found that com
postable materials make up roughly
40 percent of the volume of trash. In
addition to reusable plates, Lavine
said Holy Cow also composts nearly
all of its food waste.
“Right now, the compostable ma
terials are going to the night manag
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Kevin Kuney dishes up food at the Holy Cow Cafe in the EMU, which recently started using reusable plates and forks.
er’s garden,” Lavine said. “We’re try
ing to undo people’s thoughts that
things like plates are free, and that
there is no cost to the planet.”
If the reusable plate program is
successful, Holy Cow may try
reusable bowls, Lavine added.
Holy Cow employee and
singer/songwriter Luna Lacey said
most of her customers don’t want to
use paper plates.
“People are really excited about
it,” Lacey said. “It’s so much more
cozy and comfortable than the fast
food disposable world we live in.”
Contact the reporter
at andrewblack@dailyemerald.com.
Billy Corgan’sZwan delivers ‘Honestly’ decent pop-rock
Courtesy
Music review
Helen Schumacher
Pulse Reporter
During their heyday, the Smash
ing Pumpkins captured the roller
coaster ride of adolescence — with
all its beautiful urgency and angst.
They captured the freedom of
knowing that your curfew wasn’t
for another few hours. To a similar
extent, Billy Corgan’s new band,
Zwan, carries on this legacy.
Like a phoenix rising from the
ashes of low album sales and disap
pointing reviews, Corgan has re
turned to once again reclaim his
throne as an alt-rock virtuoso. With
the release of the group’s first al
bum, “Mary Star of the Sea,” Cor
gan is reborn as Billy Burke and is
joined by part-time Smashing
rumpKins drummer Jimmy Linam
berlin. Chavez’s Matt Sweeney, Paz
Lenchantin of A Perfect Circle
and Dave Pajo from the bands Slint
and Papa M.
Although comparing Zwan to the
Pumpkins is inevitable, it’s also
futile, and it will only prevent
the listener from fully enjoying
the album.
Tuning into the poppy,
optimistic radio-friendly single
‘Honestly’ is a stark reminder of
Corgan’s trademark alley cat
vocals. The chord progressions too
are familiar — Corgan receives
most of the songwriting credit.
However, Pajo’s incredible talent
is a new addition. His touch is at its
finest about five and a half minutes
into the track “Jesus, I / Mary Star
of the Sea.” Each note is heavy like
ether, until Chamberlin picks up
the heat and Morgan starts singing,
“And everything just feels like rain
/ the road we’re on / the things we
crave ... if I should sleep / what’s
left to dream.”
Other standout tracks include the
ballad “Of a Broken Heart” and “Set
tle Down,” which is filled with clas
sic Pumpkins guitar riffs.
The music floats painlessly from
the speaker to the ear, but the
songs fail to stay with the listener
for longer than the duration of the
album. “Mary Star of the Sea” is
none of the artists’ best work.
Although the release lacks some
edge, when compared to what has
been poisoning the airwaves
the past few years, it is a small
beam of hope.
Contact the Pulse reporter
athelenschumacher@dailyemerald.com.
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