[Vision2020] city tazes

[Donovan Arnold]

It is a money maker for Boise Cascade which contracts the paper, which is 
fine. the rollover is pointless because if people only use 300 sheets giving 
them 700 the next semester is kind of pointless don't you think? The 
University paper purchased is consdered a "academic support service" so the 
students are buying the paper they don't use. A better way of handeling the 
situtation is to alot students different amounts of paper based on the 
courses they are taking. I would give students their money back and allow 
them to buy the paper at a fixed rate per 50 pages. At the end of the year 
if they don't use all the paper give the money back if they are not 
re-enrolling, or turn it over the next year. I am all for the government 
helping us out, but mircomanaging individual student paper usuage is a 
little over the top. Next will be toilet paper. We will be required to buy 
100 rolls of toilet paper and if we don't use it all we will be able to roll 
it over to a next semester. It will be called a student support service and 
the fee will increase at 10% a year. Of course like all other student 
services Idaho Taxpayers will have to pay 2/3 the cost of the service and 
students will qualify for more in student loans and scholarships to help pay 
for it. Give me a break. Where does it end?

Donovan J Arnold



>From: Shawn Clabough <shawnc@outtrack.com>
>To: "'vision'" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] city tazes
>Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:17:00 -0700
>
>Just to comment on a common misconception.  The part of the computing fee
>that goes to printer allotments was not calculated by taking the number of
>students * 500 pages, but by the number of students * average number of
>pages each person prints.  Therefore, it is not a money-maker as you state.
>So if everyone used their full 500 pages, the average would increase.  But
>in response to comments, they are changing the policy to roll-over unused
>pages.
>
>Shawn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joshua Nieuwsma [mailto:joshuahendrik@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:13 PM
>To: vision
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] city tazes
>
>
>Visionaries,
>As a U of I student, I can concur with almost all of Mr. Arnold's comments
>about the UI administrations policies and money-making schemes, although I
>almost never agree with anything he says :). It is entirely true that the
>students end up throwing their money away at the end of the semester due to
>the Flex Money plan. I got free food from the both fall semester and spring
>semester from that university courtesy (or lack thereof!). Same thing goes
>for smaller things like printer paper allotments (500 pages/semester,
>non-transferable to the next semester even though you got charged for it in
>your student fees). The university explains that not passing the pages to
>the next semester "saves the UI money". Well, actually, multiplied by
>several thousand students, that makes them money, since most people I know
>don't end up using all their pages, but often have a couple hundred left. I
>know I did.  (...)
>

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