Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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RECY( BY STEVE PARKER Managing Editor USC's Society for a Better Environment, concerned predominantly with the recycling of paper, faces possible ex tion unless more students 'We wanted to recycle and glass, but the on of Columbia wou join, Scott Kearns, the group's leader, said Wednesday. "Our membership is extremely low," Scott Kearns said, "and extinction is an extreme possibility if we don't get more people to help. "We can't do it all by our selves," Kearns said of the four society members who are Med school housec USC will house its new School of Medicine on campus temporarily until facilities. are available at the Columbia Veterans Hospital. The decision to locate on can pus, according to Dr. William N. Adams Smith, vice president for health affairs and dean of the medical school, is based on the "unfeasibly high costs" of renovating the old Colufhbia Send The Gar GAME The Gamecock is the official sta of South Carolina and is publishe Thursdays, dering tihe fall and si during the. summer by time USC musications. Opinions expressed in The Gaineci those of the University of South 4 Chanmge. of address forms, su correspondence should be sent to Columbia, 292u. Subscription rat time summer sessions. Second class postage paid at C UNIVERSITY UNION PET 4 INSTRUCTO! 7-8 PM (4 Rm. 3 Course deals with the household pets, small p1 covered will be diet, he ailments, laws and i nonership, disases and AIMG TAING Environme currently running the univer sity financed recycling program. Presently, members make one run a week of waste paper from the two recycling bins on cam pus-in front of Russell House and at Columbia Hall--to Gaston Paper Co., which buys the paper from USC students. tin, paper, aluminum ly buyer within reach Id just buy paper.' Prices being paid for recycled paper are at an all-time low, with the society receiving about $5 for the half-ton of paper they sell to Gaston every week. But Kearns said the minimal amount of money doesn't upset him. "We're not in to make money so we can't possibly lose money," he said. on campus Hospital or building a modular facility at the VA Hospital to house the new medical school unta the University can take over the current VA Hospital buildings when a new VA Hospital is com pleted. "Housing the first medical school classes on the main campus was our original plan approved by accreditation groups," according to Dr., Adams Smith. rtecock home! COCK dent newspaper of the University I twice weekly, on Mondays and iring semester and once a week Board of Publications and corn ek are these of the editors and not arolna. bscription requests and other The Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, es are $3 per semester and S2 for ulumbia, S.C. FREE UNIVERSITY ARE 1: Garnett Noli k- Wed. 07 (RH) care and treatment of ets only. Subject areas me remedies for minor restrictions governing their prevention. ntal interest Indeed, finances don't seem to be a major concern of the society, while membership is. Because the society's members are busy the group has not extended its realm as far as it could. The society receives allocations from the university to bring guest speakers to USC for lectures on environmental-related subjects, but none have appeared. Kearns and Carl Naylor, the two members most active in the rccycling of paper, are also editorialstaff members. of USC's literary magazine, The Crucible, and do not have the extra time needed to arrange for guest speakers. Subsequently, money which isn't used for various expenses, like renting a truck from the university car pool to haul the paper, is returned to the general fund. Kearns maintains that if more students were to become. in volved, the organization could develop into a campus-wide project. - It would come into contact with students in ways other than just bundles of papers they see in front of the Russell House. GAUZE 8 EFFECT! Slip into one of our gauze The effect? Slightly sexy soft and feminine. These washable poly-cotton, in I styles: the Big Top, shoN and a Short Smock mode: button front. Both'in nat and pastels, with multi-c< patchwork trim, s-m-l, $1 (Dept. 121) Juniors, Davi Upper Level. Write, call I )AVIS()N'S ' -n-emnesme-m runs low at At Catonsville Community College in Catonsville, Md., Kearns was one of some 30 members of a similar group which brought Ralph Nader to the campus of the small school. 'We're not in it to make money so we can't possibly lose money' But at Catonsville, students were paid for their part in recycling the paper--a situation quite different from USC's. Kearns, a journalism student, and the now-graduated Gray McCauley, started the society last Spring. Dean Robert Alexander has served as the group's adviser since it was initiated. "When we initially started," tops. ,very are wo vn, l with ural 779-5700. Carolina Kearns said. "we wanted to start a complete recycling program. We wanted to recycle tin, paper, aluminum and glass, but the only buyer within reach of Columbia would just buy paper." And, Kearns said, the market for recycling paper is small. "I guess you'd need a $1 million advertising campaign to promote the recycling of paper on a widespread scale," he said. Most newspaper companies and everyday consumers prefer virgin stock' paper and shun recycled products. So, Kearns said, most waste paper is used in land-fills. "One national organization for the environment said that if the federal government alone used recycled paper in just 25 per cent of the paper it used, that would be enough to make recycled paper a viable product," Kearns said. But, if the environmental society on USC's campus continues as it is now, without the student assistance and volun teers it desperately needs, USC might not be in the recycling business if it ever does become a viable product.