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...only scientist in modern times to be physically attacked for an idea.” Wilson said. “Take that Jim,” he added...
...terms of the culture, DHA sweaters are important, but it’s understandable if cuts have to be made.” Another recent athletic concern pertained to the department’s policies regarding undergraduate students and their gym memberships. The misconception involved the idea that undergraduates needed to reactivate their gym memberships online to continue having free access to the university’s gyms and classes. “There are no fees for using the university’s gym facilities,” said Associate Director of Athletics Jeremy Gibson...
...things that came up during this poll, and the story now is going to kind of reflect this idea, is that while volunteering is down, people have changed the way they are consuming. For example, in the past year, record numbers of people bought a green product. Record numbers of people bought a product from a company that shows social responsibility whose values they like...
This is really kind of a new thing. And the argument that I'm going to try to make is that this is a new kind of service, a new kind of civic engagement; that people are becoming kind of citizen consumers, and that is related to this idea of service. The President: Well, I think you especially see that in the next generation, even among our daughters. I remember Malia maybe three years ago - she was eight or seven - said, you've got to get a hybrid because this is polluting the air and killing polar bears...
Both in terms of volunteerism and this idea of kind of civic consumerism, our polls show that there has been a - for lack of a better term, kind of Obama effect - that includes both of you - and that in some ways you started talking about, early on, this very American idea of doing well by doing good: green industry, the idea that principles and progress are not mutually exclusive. In some way, you've both been an endorsement of this and a beneficiary of it. The President: Our campaign was an example...