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...obtained 83 percent student approval in the Undergraduate Council’s presidential election to add $10 to each student’s termbill in order to power 25 percent of student dorms with renewable wind energy. Though the termbill fee was ultimately rejected, the measure was an important impetus in pushing Summers to set aside extra funds for renewable energy. Another group, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) has waged a successful PR campaign with students and administrators. It helped secure Summers’ promise that new Allston buildings would be constructed with green principles in mind. HGCI...
...only counterarguments—to what is an undeniably good thing—involve reservations about time. The argument is that if Lamont becomes a student center, there will be no impetus for the construction of a real student center across the river. If the last year has taught us anything, it is that student activism, serious or otherwise, can change the minds of College and University planners. Until that’s proven wrong, it makes no sense to downplay and insult what the College is already offering...
...their attendant scientific controversies.”“There are always areas of causal uncertainty that take a long time to resolve, but there is often also an urgency to prevent harm and protect the health of people,” Bloom said. “The impetus from citizens and communities is necessary both to expose health problems and eventually to solve them.” Also honored yesterday was Kenneth Olden, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the first African-American to head one of the branches of the National...
...getting things done now,” says Madeleine Talbots, an ACORN organizer in Chicago. “It didn’t used to be that way.” Living wage initiatives may not always be enough to get Democrats elected, but they do provide a great impetus to organizing. The best test of the power of these movements is not whether Kerry won Florida. It is what happens to states like Florida for years to come. The seeds planted by living wage movements may not always bear fruit immediately in the form of Democratic officials, but these...
Your inspiring profiles of influential Hispanics provided a compelling impetus for a national U.S. holiday to honor farmworkers' advocate Cesar Chavez. He was a social-justice paragon akin to Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi. Chavez empowered disenfranchised and politically oppressed people. He emulated Gandhi's pacifism and reverence for life. All Americans should commemorate his birthday, March...