Cups: A Plea

To the Editors of The Crimson:

I was pleased to see in The Crimson the headline "Dining Halls to Phase Out Styrofoam" (December 12) As I began to read the article, however, I found that the University's plan was simply to switch to paper! Since the beginning of my freshman year, when I watched hundreds of cups pile up in the trash barrels of the Freshman Union every day. I have been greatly disturbed by the use of disposable cups in Harvard dining halls. Although a switch from styrofoam to paper would be an improvement, it still does not strike me as a satisfactory solution.

Lowell House and many of the other houses use virtually nothing but glasses and plastic coffee cups. Why can't all of the houses and the Union do the same? If it costs more money to use glass. even accounting for the fact that dinng halls would no longer be buying hundreds of cups per day, wouldn't this act of conservation be as worthy of University funding as many of the activities the University supports? Sarah K. Highland '90