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Students at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) found a $5 gift from Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 in their holiday stockings. Ellwood scrapped the clean energy fee from students’ termbills and announced that the school would use its administrative budget to fund the switch-over to environmentally-friendly power sources...
While the item has yet to come up in a faculty discussion, the administration has been virtually unanimous in its opposition to the fee. “We don’t believe that an optional check-off fee is the appropriate forum to address such issues,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said at a panel last week with former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and Butler Professor Environmental Studies Michael B. McElroy...
...yesterday’s meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, the EAC argued that an optional termbill fee would not only help reduce the College’s ecological footprint, but also help spread awareness about the issue...
...make a great opportunity for education—not only would it let students make conscious choices about their own sustainability practices, but also give parents the opportunity to look at the termbill,” Miller said. “I think that having an optional renewable energy fee on termbill would open up a dialogue not only on campus but also back at home with students’ families...
...proposed renewable energy fee comes on the heels of the $25 student activities opt-out fee that the student body and the Faculty Council approved last spring...