First off, although Wash U is trying to create a more sustainable campus by reducing the amount of paper people print, shouldn’t that be more of the responsibility of the students to live a sustainable lifestyle instead of being babied by the University? Sure, once we graduate, we realize that the cost of printing materials will be out of our own pockets so we will print less in accordance with frugality, but we as students need to hold the responsibility on our own not to abuse the resources that Wash U gives us and print only what we need. I know Wash U is doing this to be a contender for the “greenest campus” but if the students don’t care for it, it’s all a facade.

Second, this new program discriminates between schools and gives different quota amounts based on your major. I, as a business school second major, have $50 worth of printing and potential paper wasting (or resourcefulness) whereas all my comrades in ArtSci have a mere $3. Surely, my friends in writing intensive courses will be using up their $3 easily, but I feel that my $50 is incredibly generous for printing off slides for my one marketing class. In fact, I’ll probably use $45 of it for printing flyers for a student group.

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