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University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, August 27, 1991
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Publishers using recycled paper
Environmental concern affects texts
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
Growing environmental concern on college campuses has prompted McGraw-Hill Inc. to start printing all textbooks published by Primis on recycled paper.
Robert Lynch, director of Primis,
McGraw-Hill's electronic custom
publishing system, said he expected
the company to print
books on recycled paper.
"What we are trying to do is to be pro-active," Lynch said. "We know that there is environmental concern and we are trying to respond to that."
Steve Johnson, research manager for the National Association of College Stores, said that the company was moving with a growing trend.
"I think the publishing companies are heading in that direction," Johnson said. "But there are pressures and problems to get them to the stores. For example, timing. I'd also tend to believe it would be a little more expensive to put things together that way."
Lynch said that additional costs were involved in printing books on recycled paper but that the company would absorb them.
"It doesn't affect prices," he said.
"There are some issues of quality con-
trio because the paper is different.
You have to evaluate and select the paper, but once the paper is chosen, nothing new happens."
Bill Getz, assistant manager for books at the Kansas University Bookstore, said the KU Bookstores did not carry textbooks by Prims.
But he said he was aware that other companies had started to print textbooks or recycled paper.
Gets said he did not think the use of recycled paper would increase textbook prices are
According to William C. Brown Pub-
lishers, prices for their recycled text:
books remain the same.
"It is a trend," Getz said. "The only company we carry that has recycled books is William C. Brown."
On the front and spine of "Inquiry Into Life," a biology textbook available at KU Bookstores, logos with three arrows forming a circle and the note "recycled" indicate that the book has been printed on recycled paper. Inwise, the book is barely distinguishable from traditionally printed books.
"You honestly can't tell the difference," Lynch said. "There might be slight differences in color from time to time, but the paper and printing have a very high quality, and usually you won't notice any difference."
KU graduate offers island rain forest hike
By William Ramsey
A KU graduate will begin hiking tours this November to rain forests on the secluded Caribbean island of Dominica.
Kansan staff writer
Kevin Vaughn, president of Earth Tours Ltd,
will guide hikers through the rain forest on the tiny
island, located south of Guadeloupe and north of
the Venezuela coast.
Vaughn, a 1984 KU graduate, began the New York City-based company six years ago.
anthur euterman, tour leader for the first trip,
said Earthwatch chose Dominica because its
elevation is largely at sea.
He said the company was interested in hiking sites that were not heavily frequented by tourists.
"I's not a pina colada, drink-on-the-beach type "
"of vacation, 'Fetternaid,' said it. 'I'm very rural.'
the nine-day course for bikers with all levels of experience, but participants must be in relatively good condition.
The Earth Tours Ltd. trip will include visits to waterfalls, a volcanic crater, mountain ridges, rivers and lakes in the rain forest.
shape,he said.
The first tour will leave November 28, but tours will continue through April of next year. The price of the tour is $1,380, not including round trip airfare and personal expenses.
Bob Timm, associate professor of systematics and ecology, said "eco-tours" like the Dominica trip seemed to be growing in popularity.
Timm said he did not think the small expeditions harmed the rain forest and the incoming money from tourism might convince local agencies to preserve the areas.
*Here is an opportunity for people to make money off this forest, which otherwise might be considered wasteland,* Timm said.
Interested consumers should always investigate the travel company, he said, because adventure trips can be dangerous.
*You're counting on this company to get you
around and educate and entertain you." Timm said. "Also, you're totally relying on them for your personal safety, so you'd better research them first."
Rum Grenrich, director of public education for the Museum of Natural History, said the adventure companies advertising in scholarly magazines usually were reliable.
An eco-tour veteran, Gennrich took her first trip in the early 1970s and most recently visited a nature center in Trinidad.
The rain forest in Trinidad was the site of a bird sanctuary that included both Caribbean birds and those from Venezuela, she said.
closes on readiness.
"You can see about 50 species before breakfast while you're sipping coffee on the veranda," Genrich said.
Eco-tours are beneficial, she said, because they bring business to these areas and raise the value of wildlife to the local people. she said.
"I must make them feel that these animals are more valuable alive than dead," Genrich said.
New company matches tenants with landlords
By Mauricio Rios
Vancouver staff writer
Kansan staff writer
KU students may now have a way to bypass the headaches and hassle of finding a place to live.
Linda Lace, a leasing agent, had an idea about how to smooth the kinks in looking for the appropriate home. She created Rental Dynamics.
Rental Dynamics, AA 313 Bristol Terrace, is a company that serves people who want to rent a place to live in Lawrence. It began in July.
Love'sassociate, PatLarson, said Rental Dynamics connected landlords and tenants who met each other'sneeds.
"There is nothing in Lawrence that you can call and get an idea of the rental picture," Larson said.
Larson said that Rental Dynamics would not only match the customer's tastes for location and prices with seafood, but they would look for specific types of roommates.
He said that the company handled subleases and had a screening service
for landlords.
Love, the owner of the company said she hoped students would take advantage of her service.
advantage of the service would save money and time for students and landlords because it would directly link them to the appropriate housing market.
She contacts Lawrence landlords on a regular basis so that she can earn money.
Better Business Bureau's free Lawrence hot line takes consumer inquiries
Cathy Lewis, membership development representative for the Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce, said the city needed the new service.
"A lot of people from out of town call to have information on rental facilities," she said, adding that about half of those people were students.
"They don't want to waste time looking for a place when they get here," Lewis said. "We depend on a business like that."
By Stephanie Patrick
Kansanstaff writer
It started as a routine day for the Better Business Bureau
Rental Dynamics charges a $30 fee to find a place for the client and $10 to find a roommate.
A woman who had a taxidermist stuff her pet boa constrictor was complaining that the snake skin was not soft enough. She asked the bureau to help her get a refund.
"She expected it to be soft and supple so it could hang on her shoulders like it did when it was alive," said Marilyn White, president of the Better Business Bureau of Northeast Kansas.
This time, White and her staff were not able to help.
However, the bureau now offers help to
awrence consumers by providing pre-buying
inquiries.
The Lawrence Consumer Affairs Office closed earlier this month due to budget problems, White said.
"We were asked to fill the void that was left by the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Office," she said. "We have always received a large number of calls from Lawrence."
The free service, based in Topeka, began a telephone call within 24 hours after a failure of the delivery mailer's software.
She said the bureau did not offer all of the same services as the Consumer Affairs Office.
Questions or problems that the bureau could not answer were referred to other organizations, such as the Topeka Housing Information Services, she said.
"Lawrence Consumer Affairs dealt more with in-depth housing services," she said. "We are handling what we can and then referring them to Tepeka Housing Information Services."
White said the biggest problems students encountered with vendors were credit card and telemarketing schemes.
"Students are calling for credit cards only to get an application for a secured credit card that requires them to pay a large fee for the application," she said.
Kjiefer, owner of Kief's Audio/Video, 2429 Iowa St. said he welcomed the bureau's arrival in
He said the bureau offered a good source of communication between consumers and vendors.
However, Kiefer said the bureau did not have all the information it would need to solve every problem.
Most problems could be solved privately between customers and vendors, he said.
"I've tried to look at things through the eyes of the customers," Kierfer said.
People needing to contact the bureau can call 749-0990.
Directory Assistance
Scott Nickel, San Jose, Calif., graduate student uses a campus map to find the Kappa Alpha Theta house, 1433 Tennessee St., where one of his cousins lives. Like many students. Nickel used the campus directory to find his way around on the first day of classes.
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