The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 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 Tuesday, April 15, 2008 -11A 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. 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