OUR VIEW: Pooh-poohing the new recycled products

    Poo paper? Seriously? What kind of crap (pun intended) is this?

Don’t mistake this point of view as any kind of disrespect for what is seemingly an impressive feat to have successfully utilized something as seemingly worthless as the excrement of livestock, but who exactly is the bookstore trying to appeal to with marketing the idea of paper made from poo?

    At what point did the bookstore think that people would be staring at two options of buying paper and feel an irresistible urge to buy the one that is made of poo?

    The last time we checked, the vast majority of people in Logan, or anywhere for that matter, are not rushing to get their hands on fecal matter of any sort. And yes, we get that it obviously goes a long way in the production process to become actual paper rather than poo, but the entire idea of an active marketing campaign trying to get people to purchase poo product is baffling to say the least.

    At what point did the people in charge of selling this product sit down in a meeting, talk amongst one-another and come to the decision that, from a business standpoint, advertising paper made out of poo was a worthwhile way to appeal to the public?

    Then again, we wondered the same thing when those new basketball jerseys they sold hit the shelves for the less-than-reasonable cost of $70.

    Our issue with poo paper goes a bit deeper than just the idea of writing on poo. This perpetuates every stereotype that Utah State University has as being some small-time, hick-town “cow college” as rival universities are always so quick to label us. It’s bad enough when other universities in the state throw that label at USU, leaving us with the necessity of bringing up a 31-16 victory in football, or another blowout victory in basketball at home to shoot back to the claims of Utah State’s insignificance.

    Granted, it’s just petty smack talk between rival universities, but why is a branch within our own school putting a whole hoard of ammunition in the clip for other schools that want to bash on USU?

    The idea of making use of waste is a good one, don’t get us wrong. In this case though, ignorance is bliss. We’d rather not have poo thrown in our faces like that.