The Rice Thresher

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September 29, 2006 > Opinion

Coursepack printer unnecessarily expensive

· Former Rice Bookstore Manager Evelyn Morton's motives for switching the coursepack printer from Kinko's to XanEdu, a specialty publisher, remain unknown (See story, page X). What we do know is that we do not approve. While the current bookstore management researches options for next semester's coursepack printer, we hope they keep the following in mind.

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Convenience key to student recycling

· College students tend to live disposable lifestyles -- we throw away a lot of stuff a lot of the time. We use paper plates and plastic utensils instead of ceramics because the throwaways are more convenient, and sometimes the serveries do not even give us the option of reusable plates. We go through hundreds of plastic cups at parties every weekend, and we often dump all this refuse in the blue recycling bins Housing and Dining leaves in each room.

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Letters to the Editor

· #Backpage apology column insincere#

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