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...Educational Policy Committee (EPC) will begin approving secondary fields on a rolling basis over the next several weeks, and at least 10 departments plan to submit proposals by Oct. 15—the deadline for fall consideration...
...this past spring, at least 16 concentrations aimed to have secondary field proposals ready for EPC approval this fall, including Astronomy, Classics, English and American Literature and Language, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Visual Environmental Studies, Folklore and Mythology, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Math, Music, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Sociology, and Statistics, according to department chairs and directors of undergraduate studies...
...first meeting next week, the EPC will discuss the criteria and process for reviewing proposals, but it will not begin examining them...
...electronics hauler, which promised for $6,000 to entomb 300 pieces of e-waste in concrete before taking it all to a landfill. The price, along with Nisbet's unease about burdening the landfill, bothered him enough to seek another solution. He found one in St. Charles, Mo., paying EPC the same price to recycle an even larger load of high-tech trash...
...EPC, a refurbishing and reselling firm, jumped into the recycling business in 2005 to end those practices. "We used to work with companies that claimed that all materials were properly recycled in the U.S. But on at least three occasions, I watched them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...