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...efforts to change an entrenched status-quo, especially at Harvard, there comes a point when sheer idealism must be abandoned in favor of a more practical solution. For the Environmental Action Committee’s struggle to get an optional wind energy fee on the termbill, we believe that point is now. After 82 percent of voters favored the termbill fee in last month’s Undergraduate Council election, little doubt was left as to whether the issue of wind power was a priority for students. As we said then, there is no reason why the University cannot...
...would be premature for the Faculty Council to vote on the proposal at this time as it currently plans to do at its Jan. 26 meeting. Instead, the Council should demand that the administration propose a viable, concrete plan for funding wind energy as an alternative to the termbill fee. Only once this alternative has been fleshed out should the Council decide whether to approve or deny the student referendum. We hope the Council postpones its deliberations...
Skeptics of the termbill fee insist that the College should not entangle itself with social action, or short of that, they argue that the termbill is an inappropriate place to do it. We disagree. There is no compelling reason why the term bill cannot not be used. The strongest argument against using the termbill is that it would force students into supporting something with which they did not agree. However, because of the overwhelming majority that supported the referendum and the fact that it will be optional, anti-democratic concerns seem to be of little merit...
While we would prefer the use of the termbill, the exact source of funding is not of upmost importance. If the termbill fee is eventually revealed to be an impossibility, due to faculty or administration resistance, another suitable outcome would be an announcement that the College was following the example of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. That graduate school notably changed its energy policy, and a took a lead well worth following, by converting its energy use to wind power. The way it did this is even more admirable, not through an optional fee or other end-runs...
...system will be linked to the existing Registrar’s Office website and will make it possible to create and save an online profile through which students will be able to request transcript copies. Once the processing fee has been paid by credit card, the student’s transcript will be available online...