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Amid a week of Earth Day celebrations, the Undergraduate Council endorsed one of the University’s efforts to work toward a greener Harvard. On Sunday night the UC passed a resolution encouraging a switch to 30 percent recycled paper. The legislation joins an ongoing effort by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) for all the University’s departments to start purchasing recycled paper. “Thirty percent recycled paper is great because it’s reducing the amount of trees you have to harvest,” said Philip W. Kreycik...
...many programs place the volunteer in a level of hierarchical advantage, whether it’s as a teacher for an immigrant seeking citizenship or even as a van driver for helpless children. Volunteering is very often more concerned with bringing others up than with bringing oneself down to earth...
...freshman year. “We had to move these 14-foot-by-six-foot wagons that were suspended so that they didn’t touch the ground across the stage in only a few seconds. That was kind of tough.” Jewett is an Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator who grew up sailing and particularly likes the fact that Boston has so much water. The Winthrop House resident also serves as treasurer on the Winthrop House Committee. Outside of theater and house life, Jewett plays trumpet in the marching band. Not surprisingly, he also lends...
...good consumer,” Shames said. Becker, an anthropologist, found that the Fijian populace—where women were traditionally very comfortable with varying body images—was radically changed within three years by the introduction of television. (Fiji was one of the last places on Earth to receive television access.) The community began to obsess over dieting, and 11 percent of teenage girls began making themselves throw up to lose weight, a comparable level to Massachusetts. The panelists emphasized the importance of discussing these issues in the public eye, even at Harvard. “I feel...
...finished Nemo I wanted something more out of the box, something even more challenging,” he told The Crimson in a recent phone interview. That challenge is “Wall•E,” the story of a trash-collecting robot left alone on Earth for 700 years, long after humans have vanished from the planet. “[Wall•E was] a character we’d been sitting on for almost 14 years by now…and I couldn’t get that character out of my head...