SGA report on document duplication policies

DUPLICATING MATERIALS The SGA undertook an investigation of curricular needs for duplicating at the College in view of an increasing demand being made by students enrolled in certain courses requiring that assignments be duplicated. We asked the Student Center Board and the MRC (the only two organizations possessing machines outside of the SGA) just how heavy were the curricular demands on their machines, and both replied that they were as high as 80 percent of the entire volume of work runoff. Thus, we approached two faculty members to determine the substance of and the reasons for such assignments. Strongly in favor of the use of duplicated visual aids, one said that he would fight long and hard for their continuance and never be persuaded of their lack of value. He believes that the sale of duplicating supplies in the Book Store indicated that he might take advantage of their availability, regardless of whether or not a machine exists. He said that he usually encouraged his student teachers to have materials duplicated at their student teaching centers. The others should be able to have them run off on one of the three machines cited above because all were bought with student fees. He suggested that perhaps some service and/or money making organization could furnich, operate, and mintain a duplicating service for their fellow students. The SGA feels strongly about all of these recommendations. With respect to having materials duplicated at student teaching centers, we think it unethical to use supplies and services of visited centers for college assignments. If so far as the student machines were bought with student Activities Fees, they were bought for extracurricular work and personal student projects rather than curricular assignments. Should the students be expected to pay for the curricular and extracurricular needs of the college from their extracurricular fees? Were do you draw the line of separation once you start providing curricular services? If a student organization undertook to provide this service with their own money this year as suggested, there is no guarantee that they would continue the service year after year, while there is reason to believe that duplicating assignments will increase rather than cease. If the machines cited above continue providing this service, which in the absence of other