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This Sunday evening, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will decide whether to add a referendum to the UC presidential ballot in December that would call on FAS to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The vote will mobilize the student body, prompt debate in the dining halls about climate change and—most importantly—add to the growing pressure on FAS administrators to take action...
...referendum will give us students an opportunity to show that decisive support while also pledging to do our own part to reduce emissions. With the nation and the media focused on the issue of climate change, now is the time for Harvard to acknowledge our responsibility and demonstrate our commitment to addressing the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today...
...question of what the Bush Administration will do to reverse its fortunes in Iraq will necessarily become an internal referendum on its entire Middle East policy. And the battle to shape that policy may produce a long, hot winter ahead in the corridors of power on both sides of the Atlantic...
...specifics of the plan, we expect that Harvard will need to front a significant sum to begin reducing emissions. Simply put, renovating historic buildings is not cheap. and it is unclear where such funding might come from. Moreover, students have a right to know, before they vote, if this referendum will mean higher tuition or termbill fees, if it might mean funding cuts in other areas of FAS (and what areas they might be), or if private and government grants or loans could be used to jumpstart longer-term efforts. Right now, students do not have the information available...
...students’ preferences on vague issues do not have a place in a campus election. Without knowing the cost of this proposal and who will pay for it, students can only voice their support for the idea of reducing emissions. Until more information is available to students, this referendum belongs in a basket of well intentioned ideas, but not on a UC ballot...