Students speak out By John Klimut Assistant News Editor Chancellor Werner spoke with students in Cougar Den yesterday. In the second student issues forum, in as many years, Werner and various department heads answered questions from the student body. Many students voiced concerns about the new printing policy on campus. The policy mandates that all printing from laser printers be paid for on a per page basis.
Payment is made via the new vendacard system.
Jay Starratt, of academic computing, stated that printing has never been free. According to Starratt, academic computing had been absorbing the costs of printing since the introduction of the laser printers. Until recently printing costs were low enough for academic computing to subsidize. However, the combination of the laser printers and the explosion of the popularity explosion of the Internet increased printing from what was once a few hundred thousand copies per year to well over 3 million prints per year. The cost of subsidizing 3 million prints kept academic computing from upgrading the computers in the various labs.