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...away, but more often than not leave ugly traces of tape, shreds of paper, and endless staples piled upon Wigglesworth archway corkboards. What’s more, chalk is environmentally sound. It doesn’t require the reams of old-growth wood consumed by hundreds of redundant posters. Chalk??€”mere calcium carbonate and pigment—eventually washes away into the wastewater system harmless to the environment, whereas posters liberated by the wind clog drains and choke urban wastewater systems. In New York City, a subway safety study even found that stray posters and newspapers were...
...Harvard’s ban on chalk??€”the stuff of hop-scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...
Last fall—while their classmates studied the breakability of certain brands of chalk??€”three intrepid students in Statistics 140: Experimental Design undertook research that was a bit more captivating. Cassandra K. Wolos ’06, Alexander S. Captain ’06, and Ruthie B, Birger ’06 decided to investigate the question most central to the integrity of the student press: whether or not the Crimson is visually representative of the student body. They randomly selected students pictured in the daily and FM, then pulled the most flattering shots of them...
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