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Food: System used 'dumpster diving' audits
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despite the availability of paper
plates for to-go food.
“Five thousand dollars worth, or
about half, of the plates were tak
en,” Driscoll said. “We are working
with custodial staff, food staff, and
we also set up a tent in the begin
ning of the year for students to learn
to save plates.”
But some students say they do re
turn the plates.
“For the most part, I don’t notice
that students take the plates,”
Shawn Molden, a freshman custodi
al worker at the Hamilton dining
hall, said. “Some students might
take the plates to their room for the
night, but (they) usually bring them
back.”
After finishing a meal at Common
Grounds Cafe, freshman Erin
O’Brien and her friend said they
have not taken any plates to their
dorm room.
“We have enough of our own
dishes,” O’Brien said, laughing.
Despite theft, the program is still
effective. Normally, the University
spends 4.5 cents on every paper
plate. In 2002, before the use of
plastic plates, the department spent
$23,000 on paper goods. It now
spends $10,000 on paper and plas
tic plates each, with the price of
every reusable plate at $1. Addition
ally, it saves the maintenance price
of one dumpster.
Driscoll said if every plastic plate
is used 35 times, it becomes cost
effective.
The department also purchased
an Earth llib, which is a composting
machine that manages food waste
in the dining hall, Driscoll said. The
Earth Ttib project is a partnership
with the Environmental Studies Ser
vice Learning Program. In the pro
gram, Coordinator Steve Mital su
pervises groups of University
students to tackle conservation
issues.
One of the program’s projects
studied how the EMU could better
conserve its waste.
“Two years ago, we did a food
waste audit at the EMU — which
means we dumpster dived — and
created a pie chart that showed
what portion of food was recyclable,
how much of the waste was Sub
way and other factors,” Mital said.
He added that the Service Learning
Program is in its fourth year work
ing with conservation matters that
apply to the community as well as
to the University, such as trans
portation alternatives and energy
management.
In the short run, the Earth Tub
would reduce dumpster costs, but
in the long run, the savings are in
calculable, Mital said.
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Profilng: Anecdotal evidence not used in study
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number of vehicle stops per 1,000
residents, was 133.8 to 299.9 more
stops for black residents aged 18 to
29 compared to white residents of
the same age. Gumbhir called this
difference “statistically significant,”
which means that it was not due to
random chance.
Additionally, black and Latino res
idents were more likely to be arrest
ed than white residents, another
result that Gumbhir called “statisti
cally significant.” The study also
showed that officers performed dis
cretionary searches more frequently
on black and Latino drivers as
compared with white drivers. For
example, black residents were
searched in 11.9 percent of vehicle
stops and Latinos in 16.9 percent of
vehicle stops, whereas white resi
dents were searched in 7.2 percent
of vehicle stops.
While Gumbhir said this data
provides evidence of differential
treatment for Asians, Latinos and
blacks from whites, it does not nec
essarily mean that racial profiling is
occurring.
“These differences in people’s ex
periences may or may not be the re
sult of racial profiling,” he said.
One controversial sociological
theory that explains differential
treatment is differential offending.
The theory contends that members
of certain races commit certain
crimes at higher rates than mem
bers of another race. An important
finding in Gumbhir’s study contra
dicted this theory by showing that
the search success rate, or the por
tion of searches that yielded contra
band, was about equal for all races.
“It doesn’t prove the theory
wrong, but it provides evidence
against the theory,” he said.
While Gumbhir’s study could not
prove that racial profiling occurs in
the EPD, anecdotal evidence sug
gests otherwise.
Two months ago, 25-year-old
Cortez Jordan filed a complaint ac
cusing an officer of detaining and
questioning him because of his race.
Jordan was walking down Martin
Luther King Jr. Boulevard with four
white friends when he was de
tained and questioned by a police
officer. The officer said he suspect
ed Jordan was carrying a weapon
because of his baggy pants and the
way he was walking, according to
The Register-Guard.
Jordan, who had helped the EPD
with racial diversity training, said
the event was “insulting, more than
anything. ”
Gumbhir said he did not analyze
anecdotal information, such as Jor
dan’s case, but that such evidence is
important.
“I believe it is vital that we look at
the anecdotal information and the
empirical information in my study
together,” he said. “It adds to the
overall study. ”
EPD Chief Robert Lehner said
Gumbhir’s study should be used as
a foundation for further inquiry.
“Studies (like this) really raise a
lot of issues that require further
study and further understanding,”
he said.
Ghumbir said he hoped the study
would lead to further discussion in
the community.
“I encourage the Eugene commu
nity to take these results and use
them as a shared starting point for
moving forward in additional exami
nation of racial profiles issues, in
terms of policy building and in terms
of community relations,” he said.
moriahbalingit@dailyemerald. com
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