7 I H h^ \k LI •»<-" te ' vr i • _;:.>..J^'^>^J^:; -r^"^^^^^^^^ 2 NEWS FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER, 2005 THE UBYSSEY Rounding up the Roundup FRIDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER, 2005 VOL.LXXXVII N°2 UBC to explore alternative EDITORIAL BOARD weed killing methods COORDINATING EDITOR Jesse Marchand
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[email protected] CULTURE EDITOR Simon Underwood Roundup may soon be a thing of the past as UBC
[email protected] announced it will no longer be using the contro SPORTS EDITOR Megan Smyth versial herbicide.
[email protected] Although reports have varied on whether Roundup, the world's most popular weed-killer, FEATURES/NATIONAL EDITOR Alex Leslie
[email protected] is carcinogenic or not, UBC officials stated that they would rather not take a chance when it PHOTO EDITOR Yinan Max Wang comes to health safety issues on campus.
[email protected] ca 'There's evidence in both directions/ said PRODUCTION MANAGER Michelle Mayne Dave Smith, Landscape Supervisor at UBC.
[email protected] ca "The reports that I looked at aren't conclu sive, but it's better to err on the side of over COORDINATORS ly conservative." VOLUNTEERS Liz Green Roundup is used very sparingly on the 115-
[email protected] ca acre campus. Only eight litres are used annually, RESEARCH/LETTERS Claudia Li mainly for spot spraying—a highly selective There's already concern in Europe about some of the discontinuation of all chemical herbicides
[email protected] ca process, said Smith. the impact on the water supply...basically, we will be an economically viable practice.