Pulse Copy services to cease operations by start of summer

Correction appended

After serving in Ackerman Union since September 1996, Pulse Copy
center will be closing its doors at the end of this quarter.

Jane Osborne, the store’s general manager for the past
seven years, said she is sad to see Pulse leave UCLA. She said she
and her fellow employees are happy at the two campus locations, the
other of which is located LuValle Commons.

“We love it here and want to stay,” Osborne said in
response to the June 30 moving date that is set for Pulse’s
termination.

Osborne explained that despite being happy with the
stores’ current production, her lease has been terminated and
Pulse is being forced to leave.

Rich Delia, finance director for the Associated Students of
UCLA, said Pulse is not being kicked out of Ackerman Union. Rather,
he explained, “they decided not to renew (their
lease).”

Delia said Pulse was “not financially making it” and
accordingly decided not to continue business on campus.

Delia also pointed out that nothing in the lease was altered so
as to make a renewal unavailable to Pulse.

“The terms and conditions did not change,” Delia
said.

Right now, Pulse is the only full-service copy center on campus.
Individual photocopying machines are available at various
locations, such as the libraries, but other services are currently
provided only through Pulse.

“This campus is going to lose faxing services, outsource
printing, rubber stamps, business cards,” Osborne said. She
pointed to the closed business centers in Kinsey and Bunche Halls
as evidence of the campus’ growing lack of copy-related
services.

Emilia Chapman-Laver, a fourth-year English student, has used
Pulse’s faxing services on campus.

Chapman-Laver lives outside of the immediate Westwood area, and
does not use campus resources, such as Pulse, when at home, but
sees how its removal could pose accessibility problems to students
living in the residence halls.

“It will not affect my life directly, but I understand how
it could influence others,” she said. “It’s an
important resource and it’s nice to have.”

Delia, however, said there will be “no disruption of
service.”

He said ASUCLA will replace the space in Ackerman with a new
copy center immediately after Pulse leaves and is currently
negotiating with replacement stores to ensure there will be no loss
of services.

Delia said July 1, the day after Pulse is set to move out of the
space, a new copy center will replace it in the union.

Sylvia Hakopian, a third-year English student, questions the
effectiveness of changing Pulse to a different copy center.

“Why would they want to replace it?” Hakopian asked.
“It seemed like it was doing fine.”

Hakopian also worried about a possibility in a gap of services
offered. But if the store was immediately replaced with something
similar, there would be little reason to concern herself over the
issue, she said.

The space in LuValle is slated to be turned into a computer lab
to aid the shifting in departments resulting from the summer
renovations.

Pulse is owned by College Enterprises, which owns similar stores
at Stanford University, UC Santa Barbara and various East Coast
colleges.

Correction:
May 18, 2004, Tuesday In “Pulse Copy services to cease
operations by start of summer” (News, May 12), Jayne
Osborne’s name was misspelled, and the story should have
clarified that she has worked at Pulse for seven years, but only
has been general manager since December.