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University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 9, 1991
City businesses help residents recycle used telephone books
By Heather Anderson
Kennon staff writer
A group of Lawrence businesses last week began an old phone book collection campaign that gives people a chance to get rid of their old books without throwing them away.
The campaign coincides with the distribution of new phone books this month.
Patricia Marvin, Lawrence recycling coordinator, said Southwestern Bell organized the campaign, called Project ReDirectory, because the community requested a place to recycle its old phone books.
Mike Scott, area manager for Southwestern Bell, told the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday that the company was interested in selling old phone books because they occupied a large space in area landfills.
Marvin said she was surprised at the number of old phone books that people had kept in their houses.
people and help them
Marvin said one woman had called
her and said she had 12 phone books
that she wanted to recycle.
This is the first time that Lawrence has had a phone book recycling campaign.
Marvin said people could drop off their phone books at one of three city Dillon stores or the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.. 734 Vermont St.
The campaign, which began Thursday, will continue through Jan. 31.
Marvin said that she had visited the collection sites yesterday and that several hundred books already had been collected.
Phone books also are being collected at 14 local elementary schools, Marvin said.
She said the campaign taught children to keep the trash out of the recyclables and to recycle their phone books instead of throwing them away.
"I'm tired of the kids being a good example for the adults," Marvin said.
get something accomplished.
She said the project showed that a community could work together to
Dillon stores, Southwestern Bell Telephone, Yellow Freight Company Inc., Central Fiber, the Lawrence Paper Company and the city of Lawrence have donated items for the campaign, Marvin said.
"Every company had a large or small part to play," she said.
Marvin said the campaign had been economical because the companies had made contributions.
The campaign will cost about $700, which will pay for the transportation of the phone books from the collection sites to a trailer in Lawrence where they will be stored until spring, she said.
Employees from Cottonwood Inc., 2801 W. 31st St., and Community Living Opportunities, 2113 Delaware St., have been hired to transport the books, Marvin said.
In the spring, Central Fiber, in Wellsville, about 20 miles southeast of Lawrence, will recycle the old phone books into lawn and garden mulch.
By Jerry Schwilling Special to the Kansan
KU assistants show support for union
Committee planning petition drive, hopes to form union by February
Early response to a survey of graduate teaching assistants, research assistants and student assistants shows overwhelming support to form a union.
The steering committee from the graduate representative assembly distributed 1,500 surveys before Thanksgiving break, and 356 were returned as of Thursday, said David Reidy, GTA in philosophy and steering committee member.
The surveys still are coming in to the committee at a rate of 50 to 70 a day.
Of the surveys returned, about 94 percent indicated support for a union Reid said.
The survey was designed to compile numbers of University-employed graduate students who would support an effort to unionize. It also is being used to collect data for later organizational efforts.
Dan Murtaugh, GTA in English
and steering committee member, said the committee was planning a petition drive to form a union.
The petition must have at least 500 signatures from GTAsandgraduate research and student assistants to form a union, and with these signatures the committee could begin the selection process for a union representative.
The committee hopes to have a union formed by February, Murtaugh said.
Frank Doden, GTA in English, said a union would benefit the University.
With the help of a union representative, University-employed graduate students could receive several benefits, including a 100-percent fee waiver, higher wages, health insurance and child-care benefits.
"We need the power of a union to stick up for our rights," he said.
An information sheet, included with the survey, reported that GTAs at the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-
Madison received full tuition waivers, increased salaries and medical and dental insurance solely for efforts of their representatives.
"We want to send a strong message to the Legislature that we are an unified, powerful and necessary force in higher education," Murtahue said.
Martine Hammond-Paludan, director of academic affairs for the Board of Regents, said she was unaware of KU GTAs' efforts to unionize.
She said that 100-percent fee waivers already had been approved for next fall and that the tight budget this year would make it difficult for the other issues to be successfully addressed.
KU officials learned of the steering committee's activities last week in the University of Kansas Graduate News Paper, said Howard Mossberg, interim vice chancellor for research and graduate studies.
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