Word: mceachern
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Malik ’08—forces Martinius to give up his firstborn, who grows up to be the sweet-voiced Rapunzel (Caroline A. Jennings ’09). Rapunzel is locked in a tower that can only be accessed by climbing her hair, a prince (Firth M. McEachern ’08) arrives and becomes determined to free her, and the rest is fairy-tale history...
...characters were exaggerated to stereotypical extremes, but where a few—like worry-stricken Martinius—were glaringly overacted, others were more skilfully caricatured. McEachern, for instance, conveyed the grief and lovesickness of his Prince Roderick with hilarious whimsy, and much of the play exuded a melodramatic mood only appropriate in fairy tales...
...first I felt as if I were badgering people, taking over board space in Cabot and putting signs up saying how much food has been wasted and how much electricity we’re using,” says McEachern. As more and more students questioned the statistics he sent in e-mails, McEachern realized how surprisingly difficult his job was—convincing three or four hundred notoriously skeptical Harvard students to believe his numbers...
...despite his earlier missteps and the felt apathy of Cabot residents, McEachern says he was pleased to see students responding to his environmental push. One student went so far as to report on the acting residential dean, pointing out that she left her lights on at night. With the power his REP leader status gave him, McEachern confronted the dean who then promised to flip the switch...
...just doesn’t make sense to have the discrepancies between houses,” says McEachern, who undertook many campaigns with his own money. Further, while the flexibility of allowing students to undertake their own projects often leads to innovative, more creative ways of conserving energy, this also places a large gulf between paid environmentalists and their audiences...