The university thinks it’s saving money, but it’s not. I refer to its use of one-ply toilet paper rather than the standard two-ply we have all grown to know and love.

Whether you’re on campus or in the dorms, I’m sure you all can relate to the sticky situations caused by one-ply toilet paper.

I, along with CATPISA (Cyclones Against Toilet Paper In Small Amounts) and many others, feel the need to double up the one-ply creating a pseudo two-ply toilet paper. If a thin sheet of paper is all that stands between you and the inevitable, aren’t you gonna double up?

By using twice as much one-ply, the roll is goes twice as fast (after a really bad food service meal maybe as much as 3 or 4 times as fast), causing the university to have to buy another roll of toilet paper.

So now we’re at two rolls of toilet paper. Are you with me so far? Adding the cost of two rolls of one-ply you get around $1.90. Now, the cost of one roll of two-ply, which should last just as long as the two rolls of one-ply, is about $1.30. What do we have here? I believe we’re saving 30 cents.

There are those of you who question the scientific methods I used here so I will now do the same math adjusting for thickness and taking in to account laws of weekend parties and nasty food service meals. Oh, look, we still save 30 cents!

You forgot that nasty food and weekend trips to the bathroom use up twice as much one-ply still.

I beg you, ISU, vote two-ply in the year 2000.

Dustin Karrer

Junior

Liberal arts and science