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Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | Hilltop Views
Page 2 | NEWS
Public copiers become unplugged
Residence halls
get new doors
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St. Edward’s is storing the now-removed copy machines in the Alumni Gym.
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POLICE BLOTTER
Closed
Oct. 2
9 p.m.
Closed
Oct. 4
Closed
Oct. 3
Closed
Oct. 3
Closed
Closed
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Oct. 7
Closed
Hit and run
Oct. 7
Resolution
Incident
Location
Time
Date
Sept. 26
Oct. 1
Bicycle theft
Hit and run
Holy Cross Hall
Premont Parking Lot
Basil Moreau Hall
Bicycle theft
Hit and run
6:58 p.m.
10 p.m.
5 p.m.
1:52 a.m.
10 p.m.
5:42 p.m.
6:25 p.m.
Investigation
Agency assist
Theft
Dujarie Parking Lot
East Hall
Christina Villareal
New doors were installed at Lady Bird Johnson Hall.
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Doyle
Moody Parking Lot
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ing and scanning in campus
computer labs,” Stone said.
Since July 1, the copier
in Moody had been used
406 times while the copier
in Ragsdale had been used
152 times. The Moody copi-
er generated $128 in charg-
es, and the Ragsdale copier
generated $18 in charges.
Copy Center manager Pam
McGrew has not noticed a
substantial influx in student
requests since the removal
of the public machines.
"I haven’t noticed a large
increase, but I have noticed
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to the expense of replacing
them, it was determined that
it was not cost effective to
replace the existing copier,”
Director of Auxiliary Ser-
vices Mike Stone said.
As the copier lease was set
to expire, Auxiliary Services
determined that the revenue
made did not cover the $167
monthly fee, plus an addi-
tional per copy charge for
maintenance expenses.
“There are several reasons
for the declining use of copi-
ers, but one of the most
obvious is the ease of print-
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Leslie DeLaRosa
ldelaro@stedwards. edu
The alumni gym at St.
Edward’s University is serv-
ing as a graveyard for some
now archaic public copy ma-
chines.
The copiers were removed
from public use after Aux-
iliary Services decided that
the machines would not be
economically efficient.
With the exception of the
copier in the library, the
copiers located on the sec-
ond floor of Ragsdale, the
Moody Hall atrium and
the Professional Education
Center student lounge were
removed from St. Edward’s
and are not going to be re-
placed.
“After reviewing the us-
age of the machines relative
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a few more students,” Mc-
Grew said.
Some students are not
pleased with the removal of
the copiers. For now only
two options are available to
make copies without having
to scan the material through
a computer scanner.
"I’m very disappointed,
and I feel it limits students’
ability to take care of their
needs,” senior biology major
Carlos Mendoza said.
Mendoza, who said he
uses the copier at least once
a week, is upset about the
fact that he has to walk far-
ther to make copies.
"It makes the students
walk longer to make copies,
as where it was very conve-
nient before,” Mendoza said.
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Megan Ganey said. Todo our best to pre-
, vent incidents from happen-
mganey@stedwards.edu . . i i i
______ _____________ ing, we changed the doors to
Construction on Hunt, Le something more reliable.”
Mans and Lady Bird Johnson Obert added that the job,
Halls started on Friday to which is being done by hired
replace the doors at the en- contractors, is not as big of a
trances of the three residence project as it seems to be.
halls. Work is projected to be “It is really not a huge task,”
completed by the end of the Obert said. “Putting door
week. frames in requires that they
The entrance doors of the pull out part of the entrance.”
three residence halls are be- Obert said the swipe cards
ing replaced and an internal will work the same as in
frame is being added to in- the past, and the new doors
crease stability and reliabil- should be able to handle the
ity. Because the entrances are amount of traffic that filters
high-traffic areas, the doors in and out of the building,
that were previously installed While work is being com-
would loosen or get out of pleted on the entrances,
alignment. When that would students living in the dorms
happen or when the doors will have to use alternative
would wedge, the doors did entrances. Students in Hunt
not secure properly. and Le Mans can access their
“It just needed to be done," rooms from either entrance
said Physical Plant direc- because the halls are con-
tor Michael Peterson about nected on the second and
replacing the doors. "It is a fourth floor.
stronger set-up.” Students in Johnson, how-
The construction is a pre- ever, will have to check in
ventative measure to ensure with residence life staff7 and
that the doors will secure university police stationed
properly in the future, said at a checkpoint to enter the
Residence Life Associate Di- building because there is only
rector Brian Obert. one swipe card entrance.
“It’s not a reaction to an The checkpoint ensures
incident. Overtime it just that "the building is still se-
became clear it was time [to cure even when they are
replace the doors],” Obert working,” Obert said.
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Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 2010, newspaper, October 13, 2010; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1523400/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting St. Edward’s University.