During the first days of the semester, some\nprofessors in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences told their\nstudents that they would not be printing their syllabi because they had limited\ncopies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It somehow spread, at least in the English and\nCommunications building, that President Krise enacted a paper ban to save money\non campus. The number \u201c300\u201d was thrown around as the copy limit that professors\nhad to adhere to this semester. So, if you\u2019re a CLASS student like me, you probably\nwent to Moodle to find your syllabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first thought was that I liked the initiative\nbecause frankly, I don\u2019t need printed syllabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, I thought about all the copies every\nprofessor must use to print their multiple-page syllabi for each student, for\neach class that they teach. That\u2019s not very environmentally, or cost-friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it seemed the professors held a negative view\non the paper limit. And, if it were true that 300 was their limit for the\nentire semester, I agree that that\u2019s a little too conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I contacted the President\u2019s Office and was\ndirected to Jonas Macapinlac, director of Integrated Marketing Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was surprised to learn that he was not aware of\nthe so-called paper ban, and that President Krise had nothing to do with it.\nBut, he offered a possible reason as to why there may be a limit on paper at\nCLASS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs you might have heard, GovGuam had to ask a\nbunch of agencies to cut their budgets. So UOG was no different,\u201d Macapinlac\nsaid. \u201cNow we\u2019re operating, knowing we\u2019re going to get less money from local\nappropriation. So what does that mean? That means that some of the different\nareas that we normally spend on have to be cut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to James Sellmann, PhD, Dean of CLASS,\n20 percent of their budget was cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had to cut teaching assistant hours by 20\npercent. That\u2019s probably been the biggest and hardest cut we\u2019ve had so far\nbecause of the [financial] crisis,\u201d Sellmann said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than that, CLASS has had to become more strict\non the copy limit, which is actually 3,000 copies per professor per semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sellmann said that in years past, \u201cwhenever [professors] went over their 3,000 copies, I would just give them more. Now I can\u2019t do that. They can\u2019t overrun their copy budget. They\u2019ve got to use Moodle to distribute the syllabus and distribute class handouts.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The general operations budget approved by GovGuam\nthis fiscal year allotted CLASS $71,500 for contracts, which is mainly for the\ncopier equipment, and $23,446 for supplies, which includes copier paper and ink\ncartridges for printers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, reducing paper alone will not save the\nUniversity of its budget constraints. But cost aside, being more strict on copy\nlimits prevents unnecessary waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Macapinlac\u2019s office, moving forward, they are\nmaking the course schedules for each semester only available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe course schedules for each [semester] were\ndownloaded almost 150,000 times from the UOG website,\u201d Macapinlac said. \u201cYears\nago we used to print 10,000 of them, then we lessened to 5,000, then 2,500. But\nthen we still have old ones laying around. So this year we\u2019re not even\nprinting, we\u2019re just putting them online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, if you have paper that you\u2019re\nlooking to recycle, the CLASS office has a shredder open for use. Recycled,\nshredded paper is used in the psychology animal lab, and any excess is given to\nthe Center for Island Sustainability for mulch at the Triton Farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral of the story: don\u2019t believe all the rumors\nyou hear, and don\u2019t waste paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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