RECYCLE kotn Page 1 w
"We're leaving there {landfills)
u our monument to future genera
tioas," he mid.
But one university is attempting to
get rid of Styrofoam from its unions.
Jim Long, student union president
at the University of Kansas, said the
XU Committee for Student Union
Operation conducted a study begin
ning last spring that has resulted ih
some changes m the unions* policy.
One change is the phasing out of
Styrofoam rood containers in the
unions, Long said.
The committee issued a statement
‘ saving that"‘unions have a responsi
bility to promote a healthy lock!, state
and national environment," Lons
said.
Before the committee issued the
statement, he said, it had a series of
hearings at which different organisa
tions gave their views on Styrofoam
use.
Since the statement was issued, he
said, the union has discontinued use
of unrecyclabie products like Styro
foam * * when it was both practical and
economical."
Styrofoam should be eliminated
from the unions by Jan. 1. he said.
Daryl Swanson, director of the
Nebraska Union at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, said the main use
of Styrofoam in die union is for cof
fee cups.
Both offices and dining facilities
in the unions use Styrofoam cups for
hot drinks, Swanson said,
The Harvest Room also uses Sty
rofoam containers for takeout items,
he said.
But, he said, Burger King user,
paper boxes for takeout food.
About two years ago in response to
environmental concerns, the unions
discontinued using Styrofoam cups
for cold drinks, Swanson said.
But because there was no eco
nomical alternative for hot items, he
said, Styrofoam containers still are
being used. *
‘‘What the food service industry is
really looking for is an alternative.''
he said. "I think if a viable alterna
tive came along, we'd go for it."
But. Hanlon said, there ore few
alternatives to Styrofoam.
“Offices could use paper cups or
« the obvious one - have people
bring their own cups to work,’* he
said.
One alternative that is being re
searched at UNL is injecting com
starch into Styrofoam products to
increase biodegredabifity, Hanlon
said.
But even if'injecting com starch
into Styrofoam does work, lie said, a
lack of water and oxygen in landfills
may lessen the significance of faster
degradability.
incineration, another alternative
for Styrofoam disposal, also could
work if properly designed incinera
tors are used, he said.
But the incinerators must have
special emissions regulators and acid
gas cleaners which are very expen
sive, he said.
If those precaution! aren't taken,
he wki, incinerating Styrofoam can
produce dioxin and other unhealthy
emissions.
REUNION from Pags 1
Became of changes in technology,
WUtse said, the items listed in the
Jan. 10, 1933, regents' legislation
have been expanded through the
years to include items such as calcu
lators and computer supplies.
• Wilts* also said he thinks regents
and administration officials intended
for the bookstore to carry items re
lated to campus life.
V Whether a bookstore operator en
ters theEeunion dags not depend on a
favorable decision by the regents,
Hunter said.
However, he said, a regents’ deci
sion allowing the University Bock
More to sell only those items that are
easantiatty related to the classroom
would make it more attractive for a
bookstore to enter the Reunion.
If l bookstore is opened in the
Reunion, Hunter said, it would not be
as big as its moat likely competitors --
the University Bookstore and the
Nebraska Bookstore. But the store
would offer similar items, he said.
The Lincoln developer said he is
. not trying to eliminate me University
Bookstore, but hopes to limit the
items the bookstore cm sell to text
books and classroom supplies.
Hunter declined to release the
rthmes of which bookstores are con
sidering setting up shop in the Reun
ion.
GRAD from Page 1
rates for different sports.
Olson said the increase in the ath
. totes’ graduation rate from one year
, to the next also is affected by a
1 smaller number of students.
Because only a little more than
lOOatfcletes eater UNL each year, she
l said, • -different* four or five
graduates can be significant on the
athletic graduation rate.
But the rate for all students is
made from about 3,000 students'
records, she said.
As a result, she said, a significant
change in the rate for all students
requires a much greater number of
graduates than for the athlete aver
age.
OKSENBERG from Page 1
The United States must pursue a
“continued nurturing of a construc
tive relationship with both China and
Japan," Oksenberg said.
The United States also should not
put itself in a position where its rela
tions with China are deteriorating
when U.S./Soviet relations and So
vict/Chinese relations are improving.
Oksenberg said student demon
strations and the government’s crack
down in China resulted from three
simultaneous occurrences there -
increasing modernization, the transi
tion from revolutionary to post-ievo
iutionasy ideals and the transforma
tion from a totalitarian system to
something “unknown."
Because of increasing moderniza
tion, lie said, China’s leaders now find
it harder to control the flow of infor
mation into their country.
This is occurring at the same time
most of the old revolutionary ieaders
are nearing the ends of their lives, he
said. The old leaders wonder if the
new leaders wilt be committed to the
same ideals. *
“The answer in the streets of Bei
jing was one big, roaring ’No,”’
Oksenberg said.
China also is in the process of
transforming itself from a totalitarian
regime into something else, he said.
The population of China has enjoyed
greater freedom in the last two to
three years, he said- This freedom
caused the Chinese people to realize
their discontent* he said.
Oksenberg said the events in China
have had a “traumatic effect” on
Chinese universities and research.
However, most of the colleagues he
left in China want U.S. scholars back,
he said.
The University of Nebraska should
continue its research programs in
China* he said.
“Why cease contact when that
does more damage to the Chinese
people than the Chinese govern
ment?"
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