Over The Edge UNBC’s Official Student Newspaper Volume 6 - issue 3 October 19, 1999 By Nicole Larson Tired of only Pepsi on campus, wish you had a choice? Wish you didn’t have a choice but you were forced to drink Coke? Want everything to stay as it is? Let the University know. As most students know UNBC is a Pepsi campus, this means that to get a drink product that is not made by Pepsi one must ven- ture into town. At the end of August, however, UNBC’s exclusive pouring contract with Pepsi ran out and as of yet UNBC has _ not resigned. UNBC decided put off making a decision about __ resigning with Pepsi, or any- one for that matter, until everyone had a chance to con- tribute to the deci- always sion making process. This is not a Coke vs. Pepsi debate, this is an exclusive vs. non- exclusive debate. What UNBC wants to know is: Do you want a choice? The largest draw back to drink choice is the loss of fund- ing attributed to UNDER THE COVERS Misrepresenting social issues since 1994 UNBC wants to hear from You opening the field to more than one com- pany. “Right now the University gets commissions for everything _ that’s sold” said Patricia Hibbitts, Vice President of Business and Finance at UNBC, “Pepsi has _ also been providing us The Cola with support for certain activities, and for scholar- ships and other sorts of things as well.” Because the cur- rent pouring con- tract with Pepsi is a non-disclosure contract Ms. Hibbitts could not go into details Page 2 - | Mother Earth Page 6 - Sports Hockey Pool and Survey about how much money having an exclusive pouring contract brings the University. “The order of magnitude of money would be about the cost of two faculty posi- tions, that’s not to say we won't have two faculty posi- tions,” Ms. Hibbitts explained as an approximate exam- ple of how much money UNBC would lose if they did not sign anoth- er exclusive con- tract with either of the two cola giants. This is not only a drink related issue however, this is an issue of corporate sponsership.