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This Sunday evening, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will decide whether to add a referendum to the UC presidential ballot in December that would call on FAS to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The vote will mobilize the student body, prompt debate in the dining halls about climate change and—most importantly—add to the growing pressure on FAS administrators to take action...
...guarantee savings. That is, unless you consider how much it will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels once 2050 and much farther in the hole. It is impossible to know whether these measures will be cheaper in the future. Does this all mean that the Undergraduate Council should not have a question about climate change on its ballot? Of course not. STEPHEN J. QUINLAN ’04 El Salvador Nov. 15, 2006 The writer was co-chair of the Environmental Action Committee...
...didn’t expect them to sell out so quickly,” she complained in an e-mail. “I also didn’t expect them to not e-mail House lists about ticket pickup.” Even Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 did not have a ticket by last evening, he said in an e-mail. But one place Harvard students can still find tickets is on eBay, where one Harvard senior posted two endzone tickets for auction. The pair sold at 10:30 p.m.for $105. Face value...
...editors: In an article on the Grant Street ash tree (“Cambridge Council Blasts Harvard in Tree Dispute,” news, Oct. 31), you quote Mary Power, Harvard’s Senior Dir.ector of Community Relations, rebutting neighbors’ claim that Harvard may bear responsibility for damage done to the buttress roots of the tree. Her claim is that decay had been detected back in 2004 and led Harvard’s “experts” to conclude that the tree was a safety hazard. We would like to respond to these somewhat vague...
...opening salvo in the fight was made this week by Farmers Branch, a suburb of Dallas which is nearly 40% Hispanic. Despite protests in the streets and threats of lawsuits and boycotts, the city council voted to make English the official language and fine landlords who rent to illegal immigrants. In Austin, meanwhile, Republicans began trooping into the state Capitol with stacks of bills aimed at cutting off benefits to illegal aliens, taxing their remittances south of the border, and requiring proof of citizenship at the voting booth. The harshest bill would deny welfare and other benefits even...