Page 10-The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursday, September 6, 1990 City proposes excess by Donna Woodwell Daily Staff Reporter Ann Arbor residents may soon have to pay for excess trash. Under a proposal currently under consideration by the city council, sanitation workers would collect only one 35 gallon trash can or bag weekly from each household. Pick- up of additional garbage would re- quire each household to purchase stickers costing $1 for each extra bag or can. The proposal also includes a $4 per cubic yard dumpster disposal fee for all businesses and apartment complexes. Ann Arbor City Council members listened to concerns about the proposal from landlords and envi- ronmentalists at a public hearing Tuesday night. Critics and supporters of the proposal agree that off-campus rental fees would increase next fall to cover the pick-up costs. One landlord who spoke at the hearing said the proposal could cut his rental profits by 10 to 20 percent, an increase which would eventually have to be passed on to his tenants. More than half of the University's 35,000 stu- dents live in off campus housing in Ann Arbor Duane Black, owner of 18 student-leased apartments on Hill and South University, expressed concern over November fee hikes since this year's leases do not take the extra cost into account. 'It is inevitable. Garbage prices arer over the country... BFI and other lan operators are raising their rates up t percent. Our garbage has finally con to haunt us.' Mik Environmental Issues Co Ann Arbor Ecolo Black also voiced concern about illegal dumping by those who want to avoid the extra fee. "There isn't a week that goes by that I don't find somebody's put a refrigerator or a stove... in one of my dumpsters," he said. He was particularly concerned about students in the residence halls using his dumpsters. "How can I get them to be responsible if they don't have to pay for it? They're going to throw it here, there and everywhere." Mike Garfield, environmental issues coordinator at the Ann Arbor Ecology center, supports the proposal but does not consider it ideal. Illegal dumping will increase and "rents might go up, but in the long run the money is going to be spent for recycling." "It is inevitable. Garbage prices are rising all over the country," Garfield said. "BFI and other landfill operators are raising their rates up to 50 percent. Our garbage has finally come back to haunt us." He said he hope( be a recycling incenti recycles 6 percent of it should be recyclin its waste." Ann Arbor Sol partment officials pr will experience mcr but exact figures ha determined. One offi of municipal service and gas often increa and landlords should1 that such increases w The department revenue to make million deficit. Incr transport and dumpin ing-Ferris Industries Salem township acc the deficit. The city's own la currently undergoin expansion approved $28 million dollar t these funds aref cleaning up the garbage fee j construction of a recycling plant, and rising all monthly curbside recycling pick-upsv dfill and do not cover increases in solid wasthe proposed fee hike will not me back directly affect the University, whose waste is collected and taken directly ; ke Garfield to the BFI landfill by University: ordinator, vehicles. But the increasing costs of.- landfill dumping at the landfill are )gY Center one of the many causes of annuat tuition hikes. d the fee would Director of Housing Facilitiel ve. "Ann Arbor George SanFacon said that the- its waste when University's Plant and Grounds De- g 60 percent of partment budgets nearly $1 million - annually to dispose of over 50,000 id Waste De- cubic yards of solid waste. "I would. roject landlords imagine that would be enough to fill: reases in costs, the administration building several ve not yet been times," he said. vial said the cost The Plant Operations Department s such as water collects garbage from almost all ase in mid-year university property except the main have been aware hospital, which is handled by a ere possible. private contractor. Residence halls needs the extra account for more than half of the up for a $1.7 total, but are also the sites of the easing costs for most intensive recycling programs. ig at the Brown- Students are never enthusiastic (BFI) landfill in about tuition increases, but most ount for most of supported possible rate hikes to fund recycling projects. "Students are ndfill is full and creating the problem, students; g clean-up and should help solve it," said first-year. by last April's student Tim Alsop. bond. However, "If it goes towards recycling it's", earmarked for worth it," said first-year student Nick city's landfill, Gupta. FI PH u' " /Daiy Not all late night study sessions are as productive as they are intended to be. But, by performing exercises such as these, students do learn how to [balance their hnok,. if not their time. s I t: aY f " "": J::'::"::": ft: t1' :":::' }Sl: ti :'::":::" " ";"ii:: .:r"}_': :1:::": t::: :"::":::"::Y.:"} ... :::.YY. :.:^:.YY.Y.Y:.Y ".Y.:Y ". .Y:.Y.. " "l ' r '. X 'Y .rLY:.Yt: Y ".". t:':rr} :"lJlY. f : :: . J.'Y ::'.Y ' : :YY Yr' "Y.".'t Y'T :!t: J.:".:" .':.". .r ".:"'.: .! "TJ.": ff:Y:.'.Y... "11f Y. t'.1':':J: "r :"t',"r YY ":{Y"rYY ". :"' J J.. {rrrr t7'.r. ...1r: {... {r r . ,. iii"ai ':y : " ' er' "' .. .. .. .. it " E-' ' ' r Y iii' ii' 'i' "' r'"r iirar, a" s . .... 4 0 " Look for the valuable clip and save information on page 21 We've got what you want in the Daily! emese::Reme:Emsesenesmemnemesme~ A: U owns an orchard full of Macintoshes Karen Akerlof Daily NSE Contributor More Apple Macintoshes than anywhere outside of Texas. Last spring, MacWeek Magazine revealed the University, with 8,350 computers, was the third largest owner of Apple Macintosh comput- ers in the country. Ranking behind Dartmouth Col- lege and The University of Texas, the University fell from its 1988 first place standing. But heads of Dartmouth's com- puting facilities say they don't own as many Macs as MacWeek reported, raising the University to second, just behind Texas. Nancy Hossfeld, assistant director for User Communications at Dart- mouth, said although the college has an extensive network of Macin- toshes, the number MacWeek quoted was off by approximately 25 per- cent. Located in Hanover, NH with 4000 students, the college owns ap- proximately 6000 Macintoshes, 2214 less than reported in MacWeek. "We aren't bent out of shape about it, but we would like it to be accurate," Hossfeld said. MacWeek Senior Editor Rochelle Garner said she wasn't pleased with the accuracy of the research for the story, but the magazine would not print a retraction. "We didn't lie, we printed the best information we had available." Dartmouth College is unique in that six years ago it decided com- puter literacy should be an important part of Dartmouth's education and began to require most students to purchase a $1,300 - $1,500 Macin- tosh computer package. Approxi- mately 85 percent of the student body now owns Macs. The number MacWeek magazine printed reflected computers owned by institutions, not by individual stu- dents or faculty. Deborah Masten, associate direc- tor for Public Facilities, spent a couple of days counting Michigan's Macs for the magazine, seeking out For exam preparation, choose to EXCEL -Learn to Anticipate the Exam. -Improve Your Test-Taking Skills. -Use Your Study Time More Effectively -Achieve Your Maximum Potential Score. E EL996-1500 Test Preparation 1100 South University I- departments and centers within the University with high concentrations of Macs and finally arriving at the number 8,350. Masten had little reaction to the University's status change in the. computer world. "That article came out so long ago, I don't even remember it," she said. The Mac hit the market early in 1984, and by October of that year Michigan's public computing sites acquired the first version of the Maw intosh. At that time, Masten said, Information Technology Develop- ment equipped these sites with ati equal number of Macs and IBM\ clones. But, Masten said, "The choice of the users was the Apple Macintosh." Most of the computers in the public computing sites are now Macs. In the next year Masten ex- pects to buy another 100"computer for the public computing centers and ninety to 95 percent of those machines will be Macs. When University users go to buy personal computers, not surpris ingly, they buy Macs, Masten said. 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