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...Though China's central government has prioritized cleaning up its polluted rivers and has pledged vast sums for the purpose - one plan is to flush the Yellow with water diverted from the cleaner Yangtze - enforcement of environmental laws at the local level remains spotty at best. Local government officials often have a stake in the very factories responsible for the pollution. Typically, officials from Beijing announce a plan to visit, and their local counterparts scramble like frat boys preparing for a parental visit after a keg party. The mess is temporarily tidied and offending factories closed for a few days...
Unfortunately, the new “campus-wide events” didn’t turn out so well. The UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), flush with cash, petered it away on poorly planned and expensive events, culminating in a $30,000 cancellation fee for last fall’s Wyclef Jean (non-)concert. After that debacle, the Council effectively un-funded the CLC, divvying up some of what was left of its $100,000 budget among House Committees (HoCos) and party funds. Then the UC lopped off the CLC and left campus-wide social programming...
...hope you all are doing well. If you want to do something for me, kiss a cop, flush a toilet, and drink a beer. I'll try to write again before too long - I promise...
This fall, all students in Eliot, Kirkland and Dunster houses have more on their plates then just the regular class-picking and room-decorating decisions. Thanks to the new toilets installed in every bathroom, they must choose not only when to flush, but which way. The name? The dual-flush flushometer. The verdict? The jury, quite literally, is still sitting on it. The dual-flush flushometer is a leafy-green, antiseptic-coated toilet handle that controls the amount of water used in each flush. Specifically, students flush upwards for “1” and downwards...
They say democracy is about choice, and returning residents of three residential Houses found their toilet-draining options doubled when they returned to Cambridge this year: Eliot, Kirkland, and Dunster Houses installed dual-flush handles in an initiative to reduce water waste. A standard downward push uses a mere 1.6 gallons, a standard amount for a low-flow toilet. But bathroom-goers will be able to save even more water with an upward push on the handle—let’s call it “flush number one”—which is intended...