September 16, 1993

Joel (main print professor at SIU back then) sent me to the Daily Egyptian printing plant on campus to pick up some end rolls of newsprint. The DE was our school paper, and the newsprint it was printed on came in rolls that were about 3 feet wide, and maybe 6 feet in diameter. When the rolls got down near the end it wasn't worth starting a new print run with them (stopping to change rolls in the middle would waste a lot of time and money), so they would put the remnants on the side and load a new full roll. These remnants still had maybe a few hundred feet of newsprint, and they sold them at the bargain price of $2 per roll. I loaded several of them into my car, and brought them to the Allyn building. Installed on a holder with a cutter, each provided newsprint enough to keep the students printing for weeks.