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Yesterday Gross told four members of the Harvard Environmental Action Committee (EAC) that he hopes to create a committee of students and faculty to examine the possibility of renewable energy purchased by Harvard, according to Scot M. Miller ’07, co-chair of the EAC...
...mail, Gross called yesterday’s meeting a “good discussion on ways of proceeding” and said he would meet with the EAC members again next month...
...Undergraduate Council presidential hopefuls weren’t the only ones with white knuckles of anxiety last Thursday night. But when the votes had been tallied, the Environmental Action Committee (EAC)—who sponsored the proposed addition of a wind energy fee to next year’s termbill—had as much cause to celebrate as anyone...
...election favored adding the proposed fee to the termbill, signaling campus support for at least giving individuals the opportunity to choose to contribute funding towards wind power (76 percent of voters preferred the fee remain optional). However, despite having garnered proof of their significant student backing, the EAC and its supporters now face the most significant obstacle to making the fee a reality: the Faculty Council...
...concern, but one that is largely without merit in this instance. In regards to fears that acceptance of the wind energy fee will establish a dangerous trend towards including items based on whatever story a flurry of ad campaigns can sell to the undergraduate body, the experience of the EAC serves as a counterexample in point. If the wind energy fee appears on the termbill next fall, it will have survived heated debate in the Undergraduate Council, a popular referendum and the review of the Faculty Council. With so many (and such diverse) checks on the necessity and appropriateness...