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Volume 105, Issue 95
Music school picks up $50,000
Tim Kupsick Freelance Photographer
Cello performance major Jeanine Lafitte practices Friday afternoon. “It’s a pain in the ass” to find empty practice rooms, she said.
Federal funding will help with
a planned expansion of the
school’s crowded facilities
By Chuck Slothower
News Reporter
Thanks to the efforts of University staff
and Oregon's congressional delegation,
the School of Music is slated to receive
$50,000 in federal funds for construction
and renovation of its facilities.
The money will be used to help pay
for construction of two new wings to
the Music Building. The construction
will add about 50 percent more space
and double the number of practice
rooms available to music students,
School of Music Director of Develop
ment DeNel Stoltz said.
Several music majors said additional
practice rooms are a priority for them be
cause they are almost always full at cer
tain times of the day.
"It's a pain in the ass," cello perform
ance major Jeanine Lafitte said. "We need
more practice rooms."
University staff said the Music Build
ing is one of the most crowded build
ings on campus.
"It's been a University priority to reno
vate and expand the School of Music for
some time," Director of Federal Affairs
Betsy Boyd said. "It's at capacity."
But the federal appropriation is just
a drop in the bucket for the music
school's long-term project to improve
its facilities.
"Fifty thousand dollars, while it's a big
help, is not going to fund the whole
thing," said Tucker Bounds, spokesman
for Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore.
The federal funds will go toward
matching $7.6 million in general
Turn to MUSIC, page 4
BRING helps
Lane sort out
plastics issues
The local recycling company says 30 percent
of plastics it receives every year is nonrecyclable
By Caron Alarab
Senior News Reporter
Film canisters, candy wrappers, baby diapers and coat hang
ers are all nonrecyclable products made from plastic, a versa
tile material that is significantly adding to Lane County's land
fills. And local recyclers say the main problem with plastic is
excessive consumption.
"Buy less plastic," said BRING Recycling Director Julie
Daniel. Started in 1971, BRING is one of the nation's oldest
nonprofit recyclers.
The local recycler crushes, sorts, bales and sends to market
more than 2,400 tons of cans, glass, plastic, cardboard and
milk cartons each year from Lane County. BRING processes re
cyclables that the public takes to Lane County's Glenwood
Central Receiving Station, located at 3100 E. 17th Ave., and to
four public drop sites.
Out of the 250 to 300 tons of plastic BRING receives every year,
about 30 percent is nonrecyclable and ends up in the dump,
Daniel said.
'The contamination issue in plastic is worse than any other ma
terial we process because there are so many different kinds,"
Daniel said. "It's just a fact of the business."
Local residents' inability to distinguish recyclable plastic from
waste has always been an issue for BRING, Daniel said.
"If it's made out of plastic, you name it, we've received it,"
she said.
While most recyclers in the United States accept only two types
of recyclable plastic, BRING accepts plastic bottles, tubs and jars in
grades one through five, and seven, Daniel said.
Daniel said some common nonrecyclable plastic items sent to
BRING include baby diapers, take-out "clam shells," toothbrush
es, pill bottles and plastic bags.
Glenwood Central Receiving Station site inspector Mark
Sanders said plastic grocery bags are one of the site's biggest prob
lems because most consumers don't know to return them to su
permarkets for re-use.
Sanders said people seem to think all plastic is recyclable, but
Turn to RECYCLING, page 4
Republicans commemorate Reagan’s 93rd birthday
The College Republicans recited speeches
first delivered by America’s 40th president
By Lisa Catto
News Reporter
Members of the University College Republicans en
dured cold temperatures and rain Friday to deliver
Ronald Reagan speeches to passing students in honor
of the former president's 93rd birthday.
Several members of the group took turns delivering
some of the 40th president's speeches from his eight years
in office, including the "Challenger speech," the "Berlin
Wall speech" and his inauguration speeches.
During the speech that College
Republicans Chairman Jarrett White delivered, several
members held up pictures of Reagan in the air and cheered
at certain parts.
White said the purpose of the readings was to tell stu
dents about Reagan's policies and show the
inspiration he gave America.
"We believe that Ronald Reagan is one of our greatest
presidents of all time," White said. "We think his vision for
our country was so great that (he) should be somebody
that we celebrate, not just on his birthday but every day."
White said that it is especially important because Uni
versity faculty members generally do not discuss policies
and actions of Reagan.
"I've been here for four years and we've never had a seri
ous conversation about Reagan," White said.
He added that while he was formerly a business
major for almost two years, he never heard about
"Reaganomics" in his classes, nor has he discussed
Reagan in his classes as a political science major.
"People at the campus don't get to hear about Ronald
Reagan unless it's a joke from their professor," he said.
Senior Tom Breaden agreed that conservative politics are
a bit underrepresented on campus.
Turn to REAGAN, page 4
Jon Hogate
celebrates
Ronald
Reagan’s
birthday
along with
other
College
Republicans
in the EMU
Amphi
theater on
Friday
afternoon.
Lauren
Wimer
Photographer
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