I understand your concern for the change in the Courtesy Scholarship dependent eligibility. However, the University's decision to limit eligibility to legal or adopted children was based on compliance with the section of the IRS code regarding education benefits.

Pat Douglass

Human Resources

Recycling program must become comprehensive
It is clear that our students want to recycle. This photograph, taken behind Woodruff Residential Center when students were moving in, illustrates the need for coordinated collection of corrugated cardboard at Emory.

All of the cardboard pictured had to be transferred to the nearby trash compactor. It was then hauled to a landfill, where Emory was charged for disposal fees. The current rate paid for corrugated cardboard at a nearby recycling processor is $90 per ton. This does not make good environmental or economic sense.

There is a great need for the comprehensive collection of many commodities on campus; cardboard is just one of our many unmet recycling needs. Since 1990 Emory's recycling program has been the result of a relatively small number of volunteer staff, students and faculty who have worked to do what they knew was the right thing for the environment, and the right thing for Emory. Because of their efforts, more than 1.5 million pounds of white office paper have been recycled--no small feat for a volunteer effort.

But Emory's recycling needs go far beyond white paper. Comprehensive recycling and overall waste reduction efforts are long overdue at Emory. Let's all strive to develop a first-class recycling program, one that is an integral part of an exemplary waste reduction program and the result of everyone working toward a common goal.

Emory Recycles

Steering Committee