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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions is good. But at what cost? The Environmental Action Committee (EAC) is asking the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to cut its emissions (through on-campus energy conservation and alternative energy purchases, for example) and would like the student voice behind it. The EAC has crafted a resolution that calls on FAS to “reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a level 11 percent below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020”—a bit more than the level mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the national...
...proposed a multi-prong strategy to reduce emissions but has only a rough idea of how much the entire project would cost. While some initiatives, like renovating buildings to be more energy efficient, may eventually save FAS money, others, like purchasing electricity from a wind farm, will not. Because the EAC is still assembling its plan, it cannot currently provide a firm cost estimate...
...doing,” said Verba, the outgoing director of the University Library. He added that formal consultation with faculty was important to overcome a concern that the Corporation resembled “a Star Chamber—closed in, doing whatever it does.”Members of FAS say that their input—often in the form of prioritizing qualities that professors think Summers lacked—will help the search committee avoid mistakes they say contributed to Summers’ resignation last spring.“I think it’s important for the search...
...Undergraduate Council voted unanimously last night to call upon the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to repeal the tax it instituted this year on all donations to the Harvard Gift Fund. Money given to the tax-deductible gift fund generally comes from alumni and passes to the designated student groups. The FAS tax will start at 5 percent this year and increase to 15 in three years. FAS currently taxes donations to the gift fund at a rate under 2 percent, according to UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08, a sponsor of last...
...With the requirement, there would be a need to staff the requirement and there is simply not enough faculty at FAS all by themselves to do that, especially if you want to cover all of the world’s religion traditions,” Edwards said...