Stop Stony Brook SINC Cover Pages

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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 users 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.

110 Signatures

  • Gregory Cordts
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
    • Comments
    • В
  • Victoriya Baratt
  • David Mazza
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
    • Comments
    • Stop the waste = save money
  • William Foreman
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Derek Toub
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • undergrad
  • Fernando
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • undergraduate
  • Carson Dance
  • John Williams
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Devin Darmanie
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Katie Knowlton
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
    • Comments
    • It's ridiculous that a school that touts itself as being green wastes all this paper every year on printer cover sheets.
  • Brittany Kalosza
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Sarah Marshall
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
    • Comments
    • just unnecessary....
  • Charles Chen
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
    • Comments
    • Its a waste and just plain dumb.
  • Aimee Mendoza
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • graduate
  • Cynthia Lopez
  • Timothy Enright
  • Kristin Kammer
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergrad
  • Jaclyn Cacioli
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Graduate
  • Sanskar Wagley
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Teresa Spicciatie
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • undergraduate
  • Jonathan Westerlund
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • undergraduate
  • Agatha Cwalina
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Sean Lee
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Aneta Bose
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • U2
    • Comments
    • stop the cover pages!!! or make it optional
  • Chantilly Berrios
  • Adam Kent
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Jonathan Gottfried
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Scott Moore
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • 2011
  • Yechiel Robinson
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Graduate
    • Comments
    • DUMP the wiki!
  • Zuby Habibi
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Nivin Thundiyil
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Maxwell Simmons
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Martijn Schoonvelde
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Graduate
  • Gregory Smith
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Heather Guay
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • undergraduate
  • Dayna Panchal
  • Joshua Hamer
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • avanthi
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • graduate
    • Comments
    • i agree that it is a waste of paper!
  • marsha s
  • Tara
  • Kenneth Lee
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Health Sci
    • Comments
    • The HCS's printers don't have cover pages, and everyone is perfectly okay with that.
  • Margaret Ptak
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Sejal Jain
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Aaron D. Neufeld
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Michael Yagudayev
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate - Electrical Engineering
  • Daniel Graber
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • Lauren Behr
  • Chana Tilevitz
  • Hope Kramer
    • Undergraduate/Graduate
    • Undergraduate
  • ilyse raziano