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Friday, October 3, 2003
Since 1900 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
Volume 105, Issue 26
EMU lab
print fee
reduces
paper use
Paper use is down 72 percent
since the EMU Computer Lab
began to charge for printing
By Caron Alarab
News Reporter
Junior Bethany Mason has frequented
the CC-EMU Computer Lab since her first
year at the University.
"I come here quite a lot," she said while
typing an e-mail at the lab.
As a freshman, she said the most frus
trating part about using the lab was the
line of people waiting at the printer.
"I used to know people who would
print out entire chapters of books when all
I wanted to print was one page," she said.
The students who abused the free
printing option at most campus labs
were the reason the University intro
duced a five-cents-per-sheet charge for
printing last fall. One year later, the labs
have seen a significant decrease in the
number of printed pages.
In the EMU lab alone, paper use has
dropped 72 percent from an average of
265,249 sheets per month in 2001-2002,
«*• to only 73,000 sheets per month over the
past six months. On a larger scale, the
EMU lab alone printed an annual total of
1,402,369 sheets before the charge was
implemented, compared to 1,441,256
sheets that all campus labs printed after
the charge was implemented — meaning
all campus computer labs are now print
ing about as many sheets in total as one
lab did a year before the printing fee.
After realizing the paper and toner
waste problem two years ago, CC-EMU
Computer Lab Manager Amy McCoy
went to the University Technology Fee
Committee to ask for more money. She
said she made the request to avoid the
Turn to PAPER, page 6A
A VIEW FROM THE TOP
Lauren Wimer Photographer
ASUO Vice President Eddy Morales (left) and President Maddy Melton (right) have already created additional positions to represent nontraditional
and international students. The team also aims to change the University Housing contract this year.
Governing Change
The ASUO Executive
says giving students
a stronger voice is a top
priority on their agenda
Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
Maddy Melton is kicking her
administration into gear, hiring
new staff and shaking up the
structure of the ASUO Executive
office. The ASUO president said
she is looking forward to the chal
lenges presented by the school
year, including expanding shared
governance, advocating for non
traditional students and changing
the University Housing contract.
"We're right in the process of
getting our students collected,"
Melton said.
Ensuring a stronger decision
making voice for students is one
of the ASUO's priorities this year,
Melton said.
"Students are consulted at the
beginning of a subject but not at
the end," she said. "That's not
sharing in governance to me,
that's tokenizing a student voice."
Melton — a sociology and
women and gender studies major
— complained that in the past,
student leaders have been noti
fied too late in the decision-mak
ing process to speak with an edu
cated opinion.
"It's just not possible to go
through all that material and
know what's what," Melton said.
To address what she perceives
as a lack of student involvement
in University decisions, Melton
has changed the University affairs
position, hiring Tim Johnson to
focus on shared governance.
Melton has also hired Takenori
Momiyama to advocate for inter
national students.
"I've been working with interna
tional student groups to seek out
what international students need
TurntoASUO, page5A
New steps: Life as a freshman
A few hours
after arrival,
Jennifer French,
an 18-year-old
freshman from
Beaverton, stares out
her window while her
mother, Mary French,
remains uncomfortable
in the tiny room.
Lauren Wimer
Photographer
As freshmen finish their first week at the University,
two McClain Hall residents detail their first days
By Jared Paben
News Reporter
The sound of a nearby band filters through the open fourth-story
window of McClain Hall. An Audiovox stereo system is balanced
on the window sill, but it is silent. Instead, a stereo blares pop
music from another open window.
The room is sweltering and stuffy; late-summer sunshine floods
Turn to FRESHMEN, page 8A
ONGOING SERIES
The Emerald recognizes the signif
icance of freshman year and, more
importantly, the adjustments that are
made in such a short period of time.
Emerald writers and photographers
will chronicle the actiihties of two
freshmen this term, reporting only
what they see and hear. If Emerald
staff are not present, the scene will be
re-created through the recollection of
those who were present at the time.
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