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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 11, 1998
City seeks regulations for curbside recycling
By Jeremy M. Doherty
idoherty@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
City commissioners heard several recommendations at last night's meeting about how to improve recycling methods, but curbside recycling was not among them.
A report submitted by the Recycling and Resource Conservation Advisory Board at the meeting concluded that regulation of recycling companies was needed.
The board requested that companies that provide curbside services to residents and KU students register with the city's waste reduction and recycling division.
The proposed registration process would require companies to provide the city with pick-up times, phone numbers and listings of current fees charged to customers, said Bob Yoos, city solid waste manager.
At the end of each year, the company would provide the city with a report of its collections and fees.
Yoos said that it would not be cheap for the city to establish its own curbside service.
"It would cost taxpayers about $2.5 million for the first year," Yoos said. "That would involve higher taxes and service fees. But right now, we're recycling more than other cities at a lesser cost." Maria Oberg, Olathe junior, said she will willing to pay extra if the city were to provide curbside service.
"The way it is now, we have to tow everything across town to Wal-Mart every two weeks when we want to recycle." Oberg said.
Private companies have provided curbside services since 1992.
"We're not set up for curbside recycling," said Mike Wildgen, city manager. "We don't have the people, equipment or space."
in the report, Rebecca Clayton, secretary of the advisory board, said the waste recycling division began to hear customer complaints in 1996.
Yoos said the complaints from residents and students were no longer a pressing issue with the city.
"Basically the problem was they weren't returning customers' phone calls, and they weren't picking up the materials when they should have," Yoos said. "But that company is no longer in operation, and we've had no complaints against the current company serving us."
The waste division submitted its annual report to the commission at last night's meeting.
A total of 8,730 tons of grass clippings newspaper, and cardboard was collected from drop cites. It is estimated that landfill costs of $167,179 were saved in the process.
"We're trying to do recycling practically," Wildgen said. "This is one way we can do it, and it'll pay for itself."
Iota Phi Theta wants Black community to bridge differences
Fraternity looks to unite group
By Carl Kaminski
By Carl Kaminski
ckaminski@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Frustrated members of Iota Phi Theta are seeking solutions to help unite the University of Kansas African-American community.
The fraternity met last night in the Sunflower Room at Burge Union.
Dion Jones, St. Croix, Virgin Islands, Junior, and founder of KU's iota Phi Theta chapter, led the discussion.
Jones said he wanted to discuss how to get the African-American community to come together and start working together.
Ericka Morris, Philadelphia junior, left, speaks at the lota Phi Theta meeting about unity at the Burge Union. Eric VanRoss, Kansas City, Kan., senior and Brian Johnson, Shawnee graduate student, listen. Last night's discussion was about unifying the Black greek-letter organizations.
Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
African-American students need to be better leaders and stop giving the youth reasons to fail, he said.
"If you go back home and tell your boy that school sucks, then what kind of message are sending?" he said. "You have to watch the message you are telling people."
Jones said that it was important to keep going, even if it seemed as if a person was going no where.
"Sometimes when we're real close, it seems like we're so far away from the solution," he said.
Jones said that African-American students at the University should stop blaming racism for all their problems and start focusing on lifting themselves up.
"Apathy is a big problem here at the University," he said.
"If you have to study twice as hard then so be it. All of us in here have experienced
racism at some point, but we are all still here."
Jones said that he wanted to see more unified efforts from the Black community, but that getting people to care, let alone work together, was difficult.
"Blacks taking care of Blacks doesn't happen as much as it should be happening," he said.
Erica VanRoss, Kansas City, Kan., senior, and member of Zeta Phi Beta, was one of eight students who attended the discussion.
Too few organizations are carrying the weight, and too many people are getting burned out, he said.
"Everybody reaches a point where you get tired," VanRoss said. "You may get frustrated, but you have to keep going."
Jones said that Black Greek organizations were doing a good job, but that they should work together more because they all were trying to do the same thing.
He also said he hoped to see a change among Black greek-letter organizations. He said there was a lot of positive discussion about how to create an ideal greek community at the chapter president's retreat a few weeks ago.
When he came to the University four years ago, Jones said he expected to see African Americans working together more
"You would think that automatically Blacks will work together," he said. "It just makes sense."
"Some good things are going to come around," he said.
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