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...mail lists came soon after unexpected menu changes in the dining halls. In addition to sustainability issues, the advisory group discussed the revision of HUDS surveys and menu changes arising from higher food costs. According to Cosgrove, HUDS is “very approachable” and desires student input and questions. Council member Peg Lacey, national market manager for the food management software company CBORD, said that it is unusual for a university dining service to welcome so much scrutiny. “For a department to be willing to open up and allow dissection for 48 hours...
...issues,” said Pavic. “That said, this is Harvard, so we may still cover world issues occasionally, but from the perspective of a student.” In covering these issues, Pavic and Duque said, The Voice hopes to actively solicit readers’ input. For instance, when writing a feature article, a staff member may post his initial ideas on The Voice blog, then incorporate reader feedback into the writing process. They said the response to their project thus far has been highly positive. “Throughout this experience, what?...
...Nothing risky or distinctive - no wine-y, Kenya-like acidity, none of the super-richness of my favorite Sumatra (which I looked longingly at on the menu while ordering the Pikes Place) - just a blend that tasted like the American statistical coffee median. Starbucks says it took input from about 1,000 customers in designing Pike Place, and I could taste every one of them in there. This was a cup of coffee brewed by committee...
...recruiters. Harris is planning calendar reform with Donald H. Pfister, an organismic and evolutionary biology professor who is also chairing the Ad Board Review Committee. Although a feasibility study on calendar reform won’t come out until at least September, Harris stressed the continued importance of student input in the process. The methods for such input remain nebulous at the moment, but Harris emphasized its necessity. “University administrators can think all they want about J-terms, but if it isn’t what students want, and if it isn’t what students...
...centerpiece of this doomsday vision is the idea that civilization—which he defines as “a way of life characterized by the growth of cities”—is inherently unsustainable because it requires an ever-expanding input of resources and involves the wholesale destruction of nature. All social, technological, and political efforts to alleviate environmental problems are futile; instead, we should prepare ourselves for the fallout by learning about nature, so as to live peacefully without the squalid human world, using only “what the land gives willingly...