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“I’m really, really happy with the results,” said CERP Manager Antje M. Danielson. About 2,000 students—a quarter of the students at the College—made the pledge.
By doing nothing more complicated than taking a minute to complete an online pledge and flip off a computer switch, students in Mather House and Straus Hall have been declared victorious in a College-wide competition to reduce energy consumption over Thanksgiving Break.
The Go Cold Turkey campaign, sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Computer Energy Reduction Program (CERP), encouraged students to sign a pledge promising they would turn off their electronic appliances over the break to conserve resources.
Allison I. Rogers ’04, a REP representative from Mather, e-mailed each person in her House the Monday before Thanksgiving to encourage participation in the pledge effort.
Although some Harvard faculty and staff agreed to participate in the walkout, HIPJ members said they were told that many who would have liked to be involved did not join because pledge forms were titled “student walkout.”