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PETS
From Page 1A
Area Humane Society in Lansing,
which takes in any abandoned ani-
mals from Michigan State Univer-
sity students, has also noticed the
trend, calling it one that "happens
all over the country."
"I noticed it when I worked in
Pennsylvania and Florida," said
Steven Heaven, the group's presi-
dent. "We tend not to adopt to stu-
dentsbecause of that problem."
Ann Williams, a representative
from popular campus home man-
agement firm Old Town Realty,
said she'd seen animal abandon-
ment in one of the company's
properties rented to students.
Williams investigated an apart-
ment soon afterthe two girls living
there had moved out and found an
abandoned feline.
"I think the reason that I
checked it was because they didn't
turn their keys in, and I went down
and there was a cat just in there
with no food," Williams said.
Williams said she decided to
confront the residents' parents
rather than contact local authori-
ties. Though animal cruelty is a
misdemeanor in the state of Mich-
igan, Hilgendorf said it's often dif-
ficult to prove malice.
"You can be prosecuted for
abandoning animals," Hilgendorf
said. "It is very difficult to prove
that it was intentionally done,
because animals can't talk."
Many students said they were
shocked that other studentswould
leave their pets behind.
"I think it's absolutely awful
that someone would leave their
pet in their apartment after they
leave," said LSA freshman Mike
Dunleavy. "I have two pets at
home, and I can't imagine treating
either of them like that because
that's just absolutely inhumane,
and not something a responsible
person should do."
Many Ann Arbor landlords and
leasing agencies interviewed said
they haven't encountered any pet
abandonments. Of the more than
10 companies asked, only Old Time
Realty reported finding neglected
animals.
Hilgendorf said the shelter also
encounters abandoned pets that
were released into the wild.
"Some are dumped out on the
street," Hilgendorf said. "Some-
times they do that mistakenly
thinking the animal is better off
than being brought to a shelter.
Hilgendorf said a reason that
students might leave pets behind
is because they underestimate the
costs associated with owning a pet,
even if they get the animal for free.
"A free kitten is actually quite
costly, because they're not vacci-
nated, they're not spayed or neu-
tered," she said. "There's a lot of
costs associated with that free kit-
ten from the farmer's market."
Hilgendorf said students with
unstable housing situations should
wait to take on the commitment of
owning a pet until long-term resi-
dence can be established.
"Ithinkforthemostpartthey're
not understanding the long term
ramifications of their decisions,"
she said. "I think they're getting a
pet on impulse. They don't under-
stand the responsibilities that are
attached, and they're not thinking
in the long run."
Students who can't keep their
pets should call the Humane Society
of Huron Valley at (734) 662-5585.
PRINTING
From Page 1A
the executive producer of Digital
Media Commons, which oversees
CTools, said about 85 percent of
faculty and more than 99 percent
of students use the website. He
said its simple interface encourages
professors to post more materials
than students need. As a result, he
said, students end up printing more
than necessary.
"It's hard for students to dis-
criminate between what's essen-
tial and what isn't," Williams said.
"Students want to be prepared for
classes, so they end up printing
more than would be offered in a
traditional coursepack."
Addis said she thinks the spike
in student printing over the years
can be attributed at least in part to
the convenience of CTools. About
35 percent of all students, she said,
print more than their allocated 400
pages each semester.
Though student printing has
escalated since pre-CTools days,
Williams said students can use
the site to make environmental-
ly responsible decisions when it
comes to printing.
"CTools at least gives us the
option to work with less paper,"
Williams said. "If we decided that
it was a priority as individuals or as
a campus to use less paper, we'd at
least have one tool that would help
us do that."
Though ITCS made the switch
to recycled paper in all its printers
earlier this year;
Addis said the adverse environ-
mentaleffectsofprintinggobeyond
the paper. She said students should
consider "the bigger green impact"
they have each time they print out
pages upon pages of PowerPoint
slides or supplemental reading.
"When people think of printing,
they often think of just the paper as
being the 'green' thing," Addis said.
"But it's also about the electricity
that printers use,'the manufactur-
ing of those printers, and the staff
driving around to service them,
too."
When campus copy shops like
Excel Test Preparation have lines
that stretch out the door before
every semester, it's clear that some
faculty still want students to use
coursepacks.
Economics Prof. Alan Deardorff
said in an e-mail interview that he
posts readings on CTools for stu-
dents but also compiles a course-
pack for convenience.
"Trees are very much a renew-
able resource, and for making
paper, they are pretty much grown
like a crop." Deardorff said. "If that
were not the case, then I suppose I
might have some concern, but I do
believe that for the majority of stu-
dents, paper copies of readings are
a necessary part of education."
Many students try to save money
by printing materials on their own,
but Norm Miller of Excel Test
Preparation said that by the time
students download, print, and
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bind their own materials, the price
becomes comparable to that of a
store-bought coursepack.
Miller said Excel has tried dou-
ble-sided printing before, but found
the practice to be more costly than
single-sided printing.
LSA junior Corinne Fulton, who
said she bought a 500-page course-
pack for one of her classes last
semester, took issue with Excel's
one-sided printing policy.
"You end up with 500 sheets of
paper that are printed only on one
side," Fulton said. "Not only is that
ridiculous to carry around, but it's
twice as wasteful as it should have
been." LSA sophomore Alex Bajcz
said he prefers when course infor-
mation is posted on CTools so he
can print only the material that's
necessary, and use both sides of the
page when doing so. He also noted
that coursepacks aren't durable
enough to be resold.
"In that respect, they're way less
efficient than textbooks," Bajcz
said in an e-mail interview.
Report: Calif. almost certain to have major quake by 2037
LOSANGELES (AP) - California
faces an almost certain risk of being
rocked by a strong earthquake by
2037, scientists said Monday in the
first statewide temblor forecast.
New calculations reveal there is
a 99.7 percent chance a magnitude
6.7 quake or larger will strike in the
next 30 years. The odds of such an
event are higher in Southern Cali-
fornia than Northern California, 97
percent versus 93 percent.
"It basically guarantees it's going
to happen," said Ned Field, a geo-
physicist with the U.S. Geological
Survey in Pasadena and lead author
of the report.
The 1994 Northridge earthquake
under Los Angeles' San Fernando
Valley was magnitude 6.7. It killed
72 people, injured more than 9,000
and caused $25 billion in damage in
the metropolitan area.
The damage created by an earth-
quake depends greatly on where it
hits. A 7.1 quake - much stronger
than Northridge - hit the Mojave
Desert in 1999 but caused only a
few injuries and no deaths.
California is one of the world's
most seismically active regions.
More than 300 faults crisscross F
the state, which sits atop two of
Earth's major tectonic plates, the
Pacific and North American plates.
About 10,000 quakes each year
rattle Southern California alone,
although most of them are too small
to be felt.
The analysis is the first compre-
hensive effort by the USGS, Southern
California Earthquake Center and
California Geological Survey to cal-
culate earthquake probabilities for the
entire state usingnewly available data.
Previous quake probabilities focused
on specific regions and used various
methodologies that made it difficult to
compare.
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