Monday, September 18, 1978
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Area club seeks to recycle glass
By SAM VAN LEEUWEN
Staff Reporter
Last year, Gary Thompson decided he was hurting the environment by throwing a bomb.
Now, sack full of bottles and jars are accumulating in his house in Lawrence and Williamsburg.
He has been saving the glass and planning something that could materialize in November: a glass recycling center for Lawrence residents.
Thompson, Prairie Village junior, who last春应聘 an Ecology Club at
Thompson said the Ecology Club would apply for Student Senate funding before it opened the glass recycling center. The club spent about $200 to palitize the project.
KU, said the idea was to save energy, not make money.
"The earliest we can find out about funding is in October, and we'll wait about a month after we start advertising to open," he said.
If the group does not receive funding, Thompson said, he does not know where the
However, Thompson said, "the recycling center is definitely going to go through no more."
New business course part of special grant
By JAKE THOMPSON
Fifty-four KU students are enrolled in a new humanities course designed especially for them.
Fichler said recently the grant would enable the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to offer courses of particular interest to business majors. Courses would be offered in history, English, philosophy and foreign languages.
group will get the money. The only funds the club has are donations from members.
The course, Moral Issues in Business, is part of a three-year program sponsored by a special grant the School of Business received last summer.
FOR EXAMPLE, a foreign language course might emphasize commercial vocabulary or a history course could emphasize labor history.
- three locations are being considered for a collection bin. They are one of the Daisy Hill parking lots, the Community Mercantile, the Chambers Market and the Roger Super Store, 32nd and Naieth街side.
DeGeorge, who is a professor of philosophy and instructor of the Moral issues course, said the course was designed to raise the students' consciousness.
turchard T. DeGeorge, co-author of the grant proposal, said the grant was the first given to a business school by the NEH and universities grant ever given to a business school.
Pichler said the precise emphasis of the other courses would be determined later in the course.
It is the first in a series of courses and business school changes offered under the $255,879 grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, according to Joseph Pichler, dean of the School of Business.
About 27 of the students enrolled in the school were major's George said, a greater response from students.
"I hope they'll be more conscious of the moral issues facing the business world," he said. "We want to make them aware of the moral concerns of problems they will face."
"I THINK the breaking down of barriers between schools is essential," he said. "It's important that teachers have the tools."
De George; Pichler; John O. Tolleison, associate dean of the School of Business; and Robert Cobb, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who drafted the grant proposal, will administer the three-year program.
The program will include adding at least six new courses, expansion of the Com
munications Resource Center in Summerfield Hall, exchange of faculty between the School of Business and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, preparation of a brochure outlining the program, and a meeting to be given at the end of the grant period.
"I think it will, at best, be a break-even operation," he said. "But we can save energy by grinding up glass and reusing it." He made the least amount of impact on the environment."
Pitcher said the grant proposal arose because of his association with DeGeorge and requests from business students for more humanities courses. The two have edited a recently published book based on a symposium they gave on business ethics.
"ITS NOT a change; the program builds
formation, it doesn't. 'Pichler is
for example.'
Pichler said that next spring he would teach a course on literature in business, which would study how authors have perceived professional business people.
Tolfson said the program would attempt to build a bridge between the two schools for faculty and students involved. Sometimes this fall a humanities faculty member will be chosen to serve in the spring as a student advisor, working in the school of business. Tolfson said.
He said the Resource Center would be staffed by eight part-time graduate students majoring in English who would assist with writing assignments. He concise书写 of writing assignments and reports.
The symposium at the end of the grant period will be an explanation of the findings and successes of the program, Tolleson said. He said he hoped faculty members and business professionals nationwide would attend.
OTHER COURSES of the program offered through 1861 will be on justice and economic systems and ethics and the professions. Two business-related foreign language courses, courses in business and mathematics and a history course also will be offered.
Tollefson said the four administrators hoped to provide a model that other schools could exame and incorporate. He said the program would foster more communication between the faculty and students of the two schools.
"We think the traditions of the humanities have something special to offer." he said. "We don't think a high degree of specialization in business is desirable."
The McPerson Glass Co., Topeka, had agreed to purchase glass for 50 cents a hundred pounds, Wallace McPerson, owner of the company, said yesterday.
McPerson sells glass to two Oklahoma bottle manufacturers for up to $40 a ton. He said the glass was melted and recycled into new bottles by the manufacturers.
Thompson said that initially McPearson would bring a collection bin to Lawrence once a month on a Friday night and then pick it up Monday morning. One bin can hold about 12,000 pounds of smashed glass, which would net about $80 for the club.
If the response is good, Thompson said the group will expand the operation.
Thompson said bottles and jars would have to be delivered to the site because the club did not have transportation or money for gas to collect the glass.
"The big problem will be getting the city adapted to the idea of recycling glass," he said.
Ecology Club members plan to talk with KU's organization living groups about the possibility of the groups' collecting bottles and delivering them to the bin, Thompson said.
He said bottles should be washed before they were brought to the collection bin. Workers from the club would separate them into clear, amber and green colored glass.
The club decided to collect glass because other groups already were collecting glass.
Laborate, Inc. 2171 Oregon St., a Coors beer
pakage, pays 17 cents a pound for
their beer.
However, Carl Leban, associate professor of East Asian studies, said recycling materials is an important part.
Leban has two collection barrels for aluminum cans in Wesco deli, but he collects an average of only 12 to 15 cans a day, he said.
He said he would be working with city, county and legislative officials to try to get an ordinance passed that would require a 5 or 10 cent deposit on all beverage containers. The deposit would be refunded when the container was returned.
"My impression is that students aren't very interested in ecology." Leban said.
Leban said he was opposed to disposing of bottles and cans in landfills because they did not decompose and they ruined good farmland.
Thompson said his group also planned to lobby for a bill that would require deposits on mortgages.
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