Newspaper program helps campus
Kalli Martin
Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Features
"We don't have a fee structure per se," Riepe said. "You've got millions of dollars in this pot of which we just get $15,000 of it."
The program is currently run through Student Activities but is easy to manage. There is only one carrier that comes to campus each morning and they deliver all 3 papers to each dorm. SAU also has a USA Today contact to call if problems arise and that contact calls the representative in Davenport to fix the issues.
There are many benefits to this program not only for students but for teachers as well.
"I like having newspapers available so students can see what is going on in the world locally, nationally and internationally," John Simmons, business professor, said. Simmons, like many other professors, uses the newspapers as a resource for the students in his classes.
There are also many unseen benefits that the program provides. The program provides the racks and the recycling bins next to the newspapers for free and they empty the recycling bins each morning. Also, when the newspapers are delivered, unused papers from the previous day are collected and counted and money is credited back to SAU for every paper left on the rack. This credit has allowed SAU to create an additional program that provides newspapers to people living on campus in the summer.
"The beauty of the program is that we don't pay for anything we're not using, and so even if we don't spend all $15,000 then that money just goes back to the university. It's not like it goes to waste," Riepe said.
"I have the students pick out an article. We have about 2-3 students each week. On Monday we would talk about the articles in class and on the days that the students didn't do it I would do it." ?
"The other thing that makes us a little unique and always has is of the three papers half of the papers are QC Times. We have a really high local paper consumption rate."
"It was then up to SGA to say 'hey we really want to do this. Where are we going to find this money to launch this program?' and we really didn't want to skip a whole year that was our trip, but we were out of the budget cycle so we have to find this money somewhere. It was SGA that really backed it and put their money where their mouth was and said 'ok we'll fund this part if we can get other people or other departments in the university to help us."'
The program is currently run through Student Activities but is easy to manage. There is only one carrier that comes to campus each morning and they deliver all 3 papers to each dorm. SAU also has a USA Today contact to call if problems arise and that contact calls the representative in Davenport to fix the issues.
There are many benefits to this program not only for students but for teachers as well.
"I like having newspapers available so students can see what is going on in the world locally, nationally and internationally," John Simmons, business professor, said. Simmons, like many other professors, uses the newspapers as a resource for the students in his classes.
There are also many unseen benefits that the program provides. The program provides the racks and the recycling bins next to the newspapers for free and they empty the recycling bins each morning. Also, when the newspapers are delivered, unused papers from the previous day are collected and counted and money is credited back to SAU for every paper left on the rack. This credit has allowed SAU to create an additional program that provides newspapers to people living on campus in the summer.
"The beauty of the program is that we don't pay for anything we're not using, and so even if we don't spend all $15,000 then that money just goes back to the university. It's not like it goes to waste," Riepe said.
"I have the students pick out an article. We have about 2-3 students each week. On Monday we would talk about the articles in class and on the days that the students didn't do it I would do it." ?
"The other thing that makes us a little unique and always has is of the three papers half of the papers are QC Times. We have a really high local paper consumption rate."
"It was then up to SGA to say 'hey we really want to do this. Where are we going to find this money to launch this program?' and we really didn't want to skip a whole year that was our trip, but we were out of the budget cycle so we have to find this money somewhere. It was SGA that really backed it and put their money where their mouth was and said 'ok we'll fund this part if we can get other people or other departments in the university to help us."'
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