The Los Angeles Loyolan, Volume 72, Issue 4 - September 21, 1994

LOYOLAN VOL. 72 • N0.4 LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY September 21, 1994 LMU Recycling Approaching Fifty Percent Innovative Program Outpacing State Mandates, Serving as Recycling Model By Matthew Pariow Staff Writer The Loyola Marymount Univer¬ sity recycling team is enjoy¬ ing tremendous successes in its recycling, solid waste reduction, and resource recovery^program. The team, led by Mr. Bill Stonecypher and composed of the University Operations staff and the Student Workers, works with materials and equipment from the Department of Opera¬ tions and Maintenance to provide Loyola Marymount with one of the top recycling programs in Califor¬ nia, a feat which becomes more impressive when compared to other equally small-scale opera¬ tions. The LMU recycling program be¬ gan in the 1989-90 academic year, when Mr. John Zestiff of Facilities Services responded to requests from students, faculty, and staff to begin such an opera¬ tion. The impetus for the program came entirely from intra-university requests, since at the time the state had no legal requirements for waste recycling. The same year that Loyola Mary¬ mount began its recycling program, the California State Assembly passed Bill AB939, the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. This bill required that all institutions and businesses reduce their recy¬ clable waste by twenty-five percent by January 1, 1995. In addition, by January 1 , 2000, all institutions and businesses must have re¬ duced their waste by fifty percent, with offenders being fined twenty- five thousand dollars for each day that they fail to reach that standard. At present, Loyola Marymount’s recycling program is recycling forty-seven percent of the university's waste. In addition, the LMU program was one of the first in the state to reach one hundred percent recycling of its green waste, a feat achieved under the direction of Mark Jacobsen, Super¬ visor of Grounds and Transporta¬ tion. After reaching this standard, Loyola Marymount Recy¬ cling then began bringing in outside companies to show how the operation worked. The program re¬ cycles the following commodities: news¬ paper, paper, glass, PETE plastic, HDPE plastic, aluminum, cardboard, wood, scrap metal, and green waste. The total amount of ma¬ terials recycled dur¬ ing the 1 992-93 aca¬ demic year totaled 386.82 tons. Since the program’s con¬ ception in 1989, it Photo by Bill Stonecypher Workers in the LMU Recycling program processing a load of recyclable cardboard . has recycled 668.27 tons. With over 120 pick up points on campus, the Recycling program is looking to increase that amount, especially since the addition of new recycling machinery. The program has also become more cost-effi¬ cient since it began producing its own wood chips, cutting costs in areas such as transportation and shipping. LMU Recycling’s “Reuse” pro¬ gram is also successful in locat¬ ing charitable uses for recyclable continued on page two ‘ Isang Bansa, Na Kolea Lead Budget Balloting AGLS Placed on Ballot for First Time as Voting Process Undergoes Revision By Jennifer D’Andrea Staff Writer In the AS LMU 1994 Budget Bal lot, one third of the undergradu¬ ate student body participated in voting over twenty thousand dol¬ lars to campus clubs and organi¬ zations by September 9. The bal¬ lots were tabulated in record time this year by ASLMU staff. Two significant developments marked this year’s Budget Ballot: the addition of new policies adopted by ASLMU to prevent fraud, and the inclusion of the As¬ sociation of Gay and Lesbian Stu¬ dents (AGLS) on this year’s ballot. On July 7, J Graigory, ASLMU Vice President of Public Relations, asked that a recommendation be sent to the Student Senate that the AGLS be included on the ‘94 Bud¬ get Ballot. The motion was unani¬ mously approved by the Executive Board and sent to the Senate, where Speaker Sean Baioni drafted Proclamation 94-01 , grant¬ ing the AGLS inclusion on the Bud¬ get Ballot with the notation “The AGLS is an unofficially recognized organization at LMU.” The AGLS is not recognized by the Loyola Marymount Administra¬ tion because of differences be¬ tween the club’s purposes and of¬ ficial Roman Catholic doctrine. The inclusion of the AGLS this year marks the first occasion an unrec¬ ognized club or organization has been included on the ballot. “I think this is a tremendous de¬ cision by ASLMU. It shows our un¬ dying commitment to serve each and every student on this campus to our fullest capacity,” remarked Kimi Klasser, Executive Vice Presi¬ dent and Chair of the Student Sen¬ ate. Since the Administration actually , allocates the money which is voted upon in Budget Ballot through ac¬ counts in the controller’s office, only clubs officially recognized by the university can receive money from the process. Since the University has not recognized the club, AGLS for the immediate future will have no access to the money voted to them by students. This year’s new policies for mak¬ ing Budget Ballot “more honest” were successful in the eyes of ASLMU. For the first time, students were required to provide their stu¬ dent identification number for veri¬ fication of their current enrollment and undergraduate status before being issued a ballot by an ASLMU official. The ballots had also been marked with a special stamp and/or initialed to prevent duplication of ballots. To continued on page three Health Care Heads Student Concerns in National Survey By James Keane News Editor The national health care debate has hit increasingly close to home for college stu¬ dents since Congress’ failure to assemble a package guarantee¬ ing universal care. Most likely to be uninsured yet least likely to be able to afford the cost of health care, college students face a cri¬ sis which is reflected in the health care policies of universities throughout the nation, including Loyola Marymount. The national crisis in health care coverage is magnified in the “college age” population of 18 to 29 year olds, where almost 27 percent are without any form of health insurance, according to the Employee Benefit Research Insti¬ tute. The “baby boomer” popula¬ tion, those between the ages of 30 and 54, have an uninsured rate of 16 percent, while 13 per¬ cent of those between 55 and 64 are uninsured. In a telephone survey con¬ ducted by Research-Strategy Management and Peter D. Hart Research Associates, 43 percent of persons between the ages of 17 and 24 listed “getting good health care” as a “very serious worry,” outpacing such traditional concerns as “getting a job”(38 percent), “doing well in school”(42 percent), and “putting aside sav¬ ings’ll percent). In this same survey, over 22 percent had suffered an illness or injury in the past year which they felt required doctor’s care, but did not seek treatment. Fifty-seven percent cited lack of health insur¬ ance and/or the high cost of a doctor’s care as the major moti¬ vating factor. Over 74 percent of those polled favored universal health care, while 60 percent said continued on page two