Stop Stony Brook SINC Cover Pages

To:  Stony Brook University Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology,

We, the undersigned, recognize the printing of Pharos Release Station cover pages as wasteful and unnecessary, and thus request the revision and/or removal of the printing of such cover pages.

The cover pages dispensed at Pharos release stations serve primarily to display a user’s remaining balance for printing. However, such information is already displayed onscreen while printing. Information about quota growth could easily be posted near the Release Station, rather than on a cover page.

The necessity of this revision is brought about in interest of environmental and fiscal conservation. To demonstrate, consider the following calculation. If an average user were to print three documents per day, they would create three wasted cover pages. If a user prints for four out of seven days per week for twelve weeks of the semester, he/she creates about 144 wasted cover pages per semester. Multiplied by the student body of 23,997 students, the student body wastes an estimated 3.4 million sheets of paper per semester!

Estimating the cost of paper at $35 for 5,000 sheets (based on Staples prices), that equates to $24,188 spent on cover sheet paper alone! Regardless of any bulk discounts the university may receive, this is still a despicable possibility for the cost of waste that could be easily eliminated.

In the interest of reducing the environmental and fiscal waste created by the use of cover sheets, we, the undersigned, request that cover sheets be eliminated from the Pharos Release Stations.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Stop Stony Brook SINC Cover Pages Petition to Stony Brook University Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, was created by and written by Gregory Cordts (stopsincwaste@gmail.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.