By Taylor Rey, Staff Writer
Officials will no longer create and supply free planners for students.
Planners have been supplied to students for almost 10 years. They usually include a day-to-day calendar for tracking assignments and campus events and are free to students to pick up in the campus store.
But the cost of supplying the planners is too high, and many of them go unused and are wasted, said Colbi Beam, assistant director of student development and coordinator of the first year experience.
“We have been planning to stop creating the planners once we had finished developing the OCU app,” Beam said. “The cost of production had just become too high and there wasn’t enough demand for them.”
The OCU mobile app was released Feb. 17. The app replaces the planner because it lists a calendar of the campus events.
“I received a planner at the beginning of the year, but I only used it for a few months,” said Gage Rancich, acting freshman. “I didn’t know the school had an app, but I’ll probably get it now that I do.”
Some students are disappointed about the cut.
“I like actually having paper and there’s a lot of useful information in it,”said Ruy Vaz, philosophy senior.
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