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Offline lakota

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Hypocrisy of "going green"
« on: February 05, 2011, 07:51:23 PM »
Just venting here:
At nearly 40 years old I have recently returned to college full time after a recent injury that prompted my doctor to recommend that I no longer work as a field paramedic.

The college I am going to recently "went green" by going paperless to save the environment. No paper handouts no paper bills no paper course catalogs etc. But still lots of text books with exorbitant prices!

Seems like a great idea on the surface-eliminate a bunch of paper consumption save on waste and save trees but here is the problem-instead of the school furnishing the handouts for class, which I happen to consider to be included in tuition, they now e-mail the material to the student and expect them to print it at home so there is really no reduction in paper consumption they have just shifted the burden to someone else. They expect me to print 40+ pages per week. I refuse to do it I am barely able to feed myself right now let alone buy reams of paper an gallons of ink.

They have gone green alright as in money not environment.
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2011, 07:57:38 PM »
Do you have to turn in paper work?  A lot of the stuff we did when I was in my last program at the local community college had an online system and most of the "homework" was done on line, or you could do it in something like word and then unload through the system, or even email it to the teachers. 
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2011, 03:29:56 AM »
I'd also probably write a letter to the editor of the local paper and explain the school's hypocracy!
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2011, 05:34:29 AM »
Nope all homework that is e-mailed has to be printed and turned in. Most of the other crap they want me to print are slides that go with the power point presentation for the class. I can take notes just fine on old fashioned notebook paper thank you very much!
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2011, 05:45:40 AM »
     Are they going to re-imburse YOU for the cost of the printer / paper / and of corse the INK snd a E-MAIL to the local paper and get the communitys input.   Jim
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2011, 10:18:03 AM »
lakota you said it, they put the cost to you.Typical ploy. Put the burden on someone else and then take the credit for what"YOU" made happen. Nothing new. Pretty common anymore.
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2011, 10:51:20 AM »
Quote from: jhm on February 06, 2011, 05:45:40 AM
     Are they going to re-imburse YOU for the cost of the printer / paper / and of corse the INK snd a E-MAIL to the local paper and get the communitys input.   Jim

Oh no my student loans should cover all of that!
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Re: Hypocrisy of "going green"
« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2011, 07:33:05 PM »
I think it's more likely a case of your professor being a bit off or outdated.  While the school can set policy, a stubborn professor who doesn't like the tech can often set their own policies to skirt around it.

I got out of college 7 years ago and even then we were doing electronic assignments with NO paper turn ins whatsoever.  We had tests where you came in and typed up your essay questions and then electronically submitted them to the instructor.  Your grade then showed up in an automated system.  At that point they were already requiring all incoming freshmen to have laptops for in-class use.

This in general I don't even see as a "green" issue.  I'm biased as my degree is in Computer Science, but paper makes absolutely no sense to me in today's world.  Why bother with a medium that takes up tons of space out in the real world and is incredibly time consuming to search.

I still have a saved electronic copy of every essay/paper I've written since high school.  I've just copied the information from my documents folder from each system I bought each time.  If I want to find an essay I wrote in high school about manifest destiny it's as simple as typing the following command:

grep -R "manifest destiny" *

Paper can't do that :)
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