Colleges key to fixing recycling problems
· Rice students love to recycle. Students celebrate Recyclemania. Students campaign to have recycling bins. Heck, last year the university recycled its waste at three times the rate of the rest of the city. But sometimes this environmental enthusiasm goes too far, like when students put all sorts of recyclables in the blue recycling bins in their rooms. Unfortunately, those bins are for recyclable paper products only. And when you put other things in there -- whether they are beer bottles, soda cans or polyethylene terephthalate -- it turns the pile of separate recyclables into a big heap of trash. That is why Housing and Dining is emptying students' recycling bins into the regular trash (see story, page __).
Correction: Course evals feature contained errors
· Last week the Thresher ran a news feature on the spring ’07 course evaluation (“The Votes are In,” Sept. 21). These included students’ numerical ratings, which have been available for several semesters, and written evaluations, which were first made available last semester on ESTHER. The point of the feature was to make the evaluation results easily available to students and display the more insightful or entertaining written comments. It was not intended as an attack on professors. Unfortunately, due to copy errors and poor oversight, there were several mistakes in the feature, and we would like to thank David Tenney, Manny and the registrar’s office for helping identify and fix the errors. The corrected results are printed in this week’s issue (see story, page 8).
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