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...Baer, executive producer of NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” endorsed the power of stories in a talk yesterday, calling narratives “the currency of our lives” before an audience in Radcliffe Yard’s Longfellow Hall...
...meantime, we've got some Ig ridiculousness to get you through the week: Lab coat-wearing accordionists playing Rossini in Memorial Hall before the event...
...kidding me,” a student wrote in an e-mail to Throptalk, Winthrop House’s list. The Resource Efficiency Program, an offshoot of the Office for Sustainability, had announced it was removing all but one napkin dispenser from each table in the dining hall to reduce waste. In response, some students saw red: “If I need a napkin, I’m going to use one. Now, I’m going to have to have three people touch it with their dirty hands before it gets...
...definition of “waste” is all-inclusive. If you use less of something after it becomes less convenient, you must have been using too much of it before. One example is Kirkland House, which has only a few dispensers in the entire dining hall and whose students, miraculously, use fewer napkins. The administration calls this phenomenon a decrease in waste. But students use fewer napkins because fewer napkins are available; we don’t know for certain that the change eliminated superfluous napkins...
...public good as they continue to solidify their grip on power. On Sept. 28, a public opinion poll conducted by the EKOM Center, a nongovernmental organization that promotes civil rights in Russia, showed that 66% of St. Petersburg residents oppose the project. A month ago, a packed town-hall meeting ended in acrimony after four hours of heated debate over the tower; security guards confiscated tear gas, knives and brass knuckles from the crowd - a sign that the controversy could even lead to violence. The Okhta Center's official website has also been inundated with virulent postings by residents...