Printing Privileges

At Williams, we got free printing. At Oxford, we got free printing at the Williams house and pay-for printing at Exeter ... but we were given 20 pounds of print credit/term, so you had essentially free printing unless you abused it. At Harvard, we got pay-for printing ... but again we were given $50 of print credit/semester, so once again we got free printing. Not so at Cambridge. At both Darwin and the Law Faculty, there is pay-for printing, and there is no credit. I haven't had to print much yet, but because we can't use computers on our exams, I am going to need to do a major printing session at the end of the year in order to get everything I need.

Now, if this meant that everyone was highly respectful with their use of paper and printouts at Cambridge, I would find this acceptable. The thing is, though, the law faculty has committed the worst. paper. abuse. EVER! They appear to have sent out a survey soliciting feedback on the LL.M. program to all the LL.M.s. There are ~125 of us. They put all these surveys into envelopes with our name specifically on them, and sent them out to us. Now, what they wanted us to do was to fill out one page of information generally, and an additional page for each of the four classes we were taking, out of the 39 classes total. Rather than sending us each a total of 5 pages, though they sent us each a total of 40. Single-sided. They sent us pages for all 39 of the classes, rather than just the 4 we were taking. Thereby wasting ~4375 pieces of paper. And nevermind the fact that they could have easily sent this out online, cut down a lot of administration costs, probably gotten a higher rate of response, and saved another 625 sheets. As well as 250 envelopes.

And they can't give us free printing because we'd abuse our printing privileges?