28—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 24, 1986
Dirty sheets:
By PAT ALMONY
Collegian Staff Writer
Most students put off doing their laundry until
the last pair of underwear lays in the bottom of a
dresser drawer.
Even when the service is provided, students
don’t take advantage of it
The University Laundry Service is available to
launder resident students’ sheets and pillowcases,
many students do not use it, said John Bollman,
manager of the laundry service.
Although resident student’s sheets and pillow
cases account for 40 percent of the work, the
service is also responsible for cleaning uniforms
for University employees, food service towels, lab
coats, and linen from the Nittany Lion Inn. Bol
lman said the service was used only 30 to 35
percent campuswide in September even though
the service is incfuded in the cost of room and
board.
Male students typically have a higher usage
rate, probably because many women students
prefer to use their own linen, he said.
“I prefer my own sheets because they match the
decorations in my room and because I don’t trust
what’s been on the sheets before I got them,” said
Laura Tyrrell (freshmen-business).
“Also neither of the sheets they give you are
fitted 1 which makes it a pain to make your bed,”
she said.
Amanda Huber uses her own sheets too, but for a
different reason.
“I like variety,” Huber (freshman-psychology)
said. I would rather have colored sheets rather
than always having a hospital bed with white
sheets. It’s not that I don’t use it because of
sanitary reasons or anything.”
Deficit soars to record $220 bi
By TOM RAUM
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S.
budget deficit for 1986 soared to a
record $220 billion, easily topping last
year’s $212 billion shortfall but a full
$lO billion short of what the Reagan
administration had projected, Budget
Director James C. Miller 111 dis
closed yesterday.
A spokesman for Miller said high
er-than-anticipated revenues near
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The spokesman, Ed Dale, also said
that projections by the White House’s
Office of Management and Budget
suggest that the deficit will fall by $5O
billion in 1987, to the vicinity of $l7O
billion even if Congress enacts no
further spending cuts.
The White House budget office as
recently as last August had estimated
that the 1986 deficit for the fiscal year
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Some students said the low usage rate was
because of the condition of the sheets, out-of-the
way linen lockers, and general laziness. But most
students who use the service noted its conve
nience.
“I think the service is good. If I had to wash my
sheets myself, I’d probably never do it. It’s too
much of a pain,” said Paul Daniels (sophomore
sociology).
Jill Reed (sophomore-French) agreed.
“I use the service because I don’t want to go out
and buy my own sheets and then wash them,”
Reed said.
Bollman said that the color of some students’
sheets at the end of each semester indicate that
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that ended Sept. 30 would amount to
$230.2 billion.
The OMB is scheduled to release its
final determination of the 1986 deficit
early next week.
However, Miller decided to confirm
the raw figures in advance of the
announcement as new reports began
circulating about the dimensions of
the deficit, Dale said.
' Those figures show that the 1986
flow of federal red ink rose to over
$220 billion “instead of the $230 billion
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they did not use the service for the entire semes
ter. A higher concentration of cleaning formula is
applied in this case, but usually the linen is
considered light soil and cleaned accordingly,
Bollman said.
In order to clean the usual 300,000 pounds of linen
each week, 120,000 gallons of water and 185,000
cubic feet of gas must be used. A cleaning formula
consisting of an alkali, powdered bleach, and a
souring compound is added to the 45-minute wash
ing process, resulting in an almost neutral pH
which will not affect the skin.
The laundry service saves money by charging
students for lost or damaged sheets. Pillow cases
cost $l.BO and sheets are $5.80 each, he said.
we estimated in the midsession (Au
gust) report,” Dale said.
“The $lO billion improvement is a
whole series of small changes, includ
ing some increase in receipts and a
wide variety of decreases in outlays,”
Dale quoted Miller as saying.
Defense spending was not among
those decreases, Dale said.
The $l7O billion 1987 deficit would
still be far above the $144 billion
deficit target under the nation’s
Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction.
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