ELESCOPE Friday, October 2, 1992
Palomar Community College, 1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069-1487
Volume 46, Number 4
Recycling program cashes in on trash
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By Cherlyn Wisdom Staff Writer
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In sharp coatrast to the scorching weather this week, the fountain near the Lite Sciences Department offers a refreshing thought.
Last year the program raised $3,000 by selling scrap and gained another $7,000 by reducing trash fees, he added. In the last 27 years, the United Stales has If Palomar is awarded the scholarship, the used more natural resources than in the money will be used to provide more recyentire period of its existence, says Paul cling containers on campus. Raineri, recycling coordinator at Palomar "Right now there are six in the Student College. Union, one by the Art Department and one Raineri proved ingenuity can help relieve by the Math Department." Raineri said. the load on Mother Nature's shoulders. Af- "Once the grant comes through we'll have ter numerous attempts, he has discovered a - those everywhere. I've already planned for way to expand the recycling program at 20 different locations on campus." Palomar College. The money will also be used Over the summer, Raineri to pay someone to collect. found and applied for a sort and put the recyclable items in the bins before grant funded by the state Mashburn comes to that targets recycling efforts. Through the pick them up. grant. which is a fundLast summer, matching program, Mashburn provided Palomar with several the state allocates 50-gallon containers $1.5 million a year to for aluminum, glass organizations starting and plastic to be reup recycling programs. cycled. According to The state will match evRaineri, these bins "are fillery dollar that Palomar coling up every day now." lects for the recycling program. Raineri urges everyone to get inPalomar's goal is set for $40,000. According to Facilities Director Mike Ellis, the volved in the program, to "take the extra school's portion of the money will come steps" and throw aluminum cans, glass from dollars raised through the recycling bottles, cardboard and paper in the recycling program, other campus sources, and con- containers on campus. Although a lot of tributors such as Mashburn Sanitation Com- people throw their items in the bins, there pany who supplies recycling bins. Grants are still those that forget, he said. will be awarded by the end of November. "For every can that we get, there are probEllis said when the recycling program ably three, four or five cans that we don't started last year it had "one work- study get, and so there are still a lot of precious student and no money. We used cardboard resources that are going down the drain," boxes to collect trash," he said. said Raineri.
Candidate spurs controversy Libertarian speaker advocates implementing a hands-off governmental policy to an unruly crowd and Republican incumbent John Seymour. Boddie, 53, an attorney, former Republican Party and Democratic Tempers sizzled last week when Party member said government over 150 students grilled Libertarian candidate Richard Boddie dur- intervention in the economy is the ing a political forum in the Student basis for our country's woes. He advocates eliminating all taxes, and Union. Boddie, a contender for the U.S. is in favor of ending government Senate, received both applause and support for social programs, such jeers Sept. 25 when he criticized as education. Schools should be students for accepting the way eco- funded by the people who use them, nomic and social issues have been he said. "There is only one legitimate funcaddressed by Democratic andRepublican incumbents. Voters are tion of government and that is to accountable for continuing to sup- defend peoples' rights when their port the two-party system thathas rights are violated," he said. The government needs to "stay out of failed them, he said. "Democrat or Republican name our workplace, stay out of our your poison," he charged. "There homes and most of all stay the hell is no difference except in the spell- out of our pockets." Federal, state ing. If you always do what you and local governments should only always did, you always get what be involved in the courts and the armed forces, he added. you've always got." Boddie said students will find a Boddie is running against Demoway to afford their education if cratic candidate Diane Feinstein
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they try hard enough. All of the surviving 22 children in his father's family went to college, he added. "There was no affrrmative action, no government support and no federal laws," he said Many students said Boddie failed to answer their questions. They were alS:Q skeptical about the feasibility of Libertarian politics. "His ideas were a little farfetched," said Palomar student Steve Wurtz. "I'm against too much government control but a society can't be based on one individual doing what he wants." Steve Brooks, an English major at Palomar, said Boddie's political plan "contradicts itself." Brooks referred to the rise of monopolies in the United States after the Civil War, a time when businesses ran without government regulation. Ralph krJISIIif P1toto1raplwr No regulation "leads to someone imposing on another person's Richard Boddie, a Libertarian contender for the U.S. Senate spoke on campus Sept. 25 in a political forum held at the Student Union. rights," he said.