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Gross, who told the Undergraduate Council earlier this month that he opposed adding another item to the annual termbill, yesterday appeared receptive to the idea of the College purchasing renewable energy but not to the termbill fee, according to a student at the meeting...
...measure, which 82 percent of the student body supported in the council election earlier this month, calls for a $10 fee to fund the College’s purchase of renewable energy. Students also voted for the fee to be presented as an opt-out item on the termbill...
...Your item "Reality Bytes" reported on the Internet game JFK Reloaded [Dec. 6]. It is absolutely despicable that people would make a computer game about a real-life tragedy like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The creators of the game seem to accept the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman involved, even though many documentaries question that conclusion. JFK Reloaded makes killing seem like a game, and is very insensitive to the surviving Kennedys and all who admired Kennedy's presidency...
...Bombs Along the Border? Your notebook item "bordering on Nukes?" [Nov. 22] reported on al-Qaeda's possible plans to smuggle nuclear material into the U.S. from Mexico. Not to worry. We'll take them out at the border with one of those billion-dollar antimissile defense rockets recently installed in Alaska. They can't seem to hit many test targets, but surely one rocket could hit a terrorist driving a pickup across the border. Couldn't it? John Reid Portland...
Oster added another impressive item to her résumé last Sunday when the New York Times featured her theory linking the rise of witch trials to bad weather in its “Year in Ideas” article—an annual collection of “the most noteworthy ideas of the previous 12 months...