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Printing subsidy to return for 1 year Students get $14 in printing at cost of $150-250K Satta Kendor Staff writer T @SattaKendor13
DeKalb | Students will be allocated a printing subsidy of $7 per semester for one more academic year from funds intended for computer lab maintenance. Chief Information Officer Brett Coryell said $150,000 to $250,000 will be used to extend the printing subsidy for another year. The decision to extend the printing subsidy was made several weeks ago in response to a resolution by the Student Association, Coryell said. The resolution called for the printing subsidy to be reinstated and increased for the 2015-16 academic year. After the resolution was received, Coryell said he worked within IT to figure out a way to continue to fund the printing subsidy for another year. “I was influenced by the voice of the students,” Coryell said. “You know my position, you know my division as IT; we’re a service organization, and to the best of our ability it’s our job to serve the users of campus technologies.” Two years ago, there was a decision to eliminate the printing subsidy gradually, Coryell said. The subsidy was to be gone by the fall. The opposition to the elimination of the printing subsidy started in the fall when Amanda Shaffer, senior elementary education major, petitioned Coryell on Change.org to
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Sophomore sociology major Laura Commings uses a printer Wednesday in Founders Memorial Library. Students will have their $7-per-semester printing subsidy, which was set to end this spring, extended for one year.
reinstate the $14-per-semester subsidy from the 2013-14 academic year. Coryell said he did not want to take action from a petition only supported by a few hundred people because it may not have properly represented the 20,000 students at NIU. The SA was given the task to tell Coryell what the student body felt was most significant in terms of technology in the fall. The SA Senate created a survey through which senators gathered students’ opinions on what the IT Division should allocate money toward. “Overwhelmingly, there was a
response towards a printing quota, so that was kind of the main driver of this decision,” said SA Senate Speaker Dillon Domke. The SA discovered through the survey students wouldn’t mind if there wasn’t a printing subsidy, but students rely too heavily on printed assignments in classes for the subsidy to be taken away, Domke said. Senior kinesiology major Meera Patel said instructors and professors have too many assignments that require printing, and they should instead focus on having students
submit assignments electronically. The elimination of the printing subsidy for the 2016-17 academic year is “not fair because we technically pay for everything and now one more thing is being added to our bursar’s account,” Patel said. The SA will work with Coryell and organizations during the summer to limit printing and to make sure classrooms are increasing their use of technology and depending less on paper assignments. “I think the Senate is happy about it,” Domke said. “... It’s something that we fought for this
Printing subsidy How much students had printing subsidized: Prior to fall 2012: Unlimited printing 2012-13: $21 per semester 2013-14: $14 per semester 2014-15: $7 per semester year to get back and it’s back ... . Yes, it might only be for another year, but ... it gives us time now to come up with something that can be sustainable.”
Grad student raises money for friend with Lolla ticket raffle
Money to go to family who lost home to tornado Sabreena Saleem Scene Editor T @BreeSaleem
DeKalb | Graduate student Jesus
Fulgencio is using his Lollapalooza tickets to raise money for a friend whose house was destroyed in a tornado April 9. The tornado destroyed the home of Tianna Calderon, 19. Fulgencio, a graduate human anatomical sciences student and Rochelle native, decided to donate his two three-day tickets to a raffle to collect $4,000 for Calderon and her family. Calderon is only aware Fulgencio
is raising money for Rochelle tornado relief — not for her family. “I kind of wanted to do something to help her out in addition to volunteering,” Fulgencio said. “I could sell my tickets and just give her the money, but I thought a raffle would generate more funds. I thought I could multiply that money I would get two to three times.” Students can win the passes by donating $10 online at bit. ly/1bIVCzZ. The winner will be chosen May 20. Tickets for Lollapalooza are sold out and have a value of $560. The raffle had sold at least 97 tickets and raised $970 as of Sunday. “So many people are coming to help rebuild these communities
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Buy a $10 raffle ticket for a chance to win the tickets at bit. ly/1bIVCzZ. that were affected — and not just Rochelle, but places like Fairdale,” Calderon said. “There were so many people affected so it’s great to see our community, like NIU, coming together and helping people who are in need.” Calderon’s family is staying in a rental home but has plans to move to another town. Fulgencio will donate some money to other families in need if the donations exceed his expectations of a few thousand dollars, he said.
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An April 9 tornado left a path of destruction along Route 251 and Route 64 in Rochelle, pictured here on Wednesday. Jesus Fulgencio, graduate human anatomical sciences student, is raffling Lollapalooza tickets to raise money for his friend, Tianna Calderon, who lost her home to the tornado.
SA elections
Student Association directors were voted in by the SA Senate at the group’s meeting on Sunday. Read about the directors and find out which spots are vacant on Page 3.