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...mind when Gadfly’s thoughts turn to saving the Earth. But who could object when the Environmental Action Committee (EAC) offered “FREE ‘BLOW JOBS’!!!” in an e-mail last weekend touting their recent renewable energy referendum? Was Smokey the Bear getting down on his knees? (Only you can prevent premature ejaculation!) Not quite. The EAC’s party on Saturday night in the Quincy JCR featured a low-tech “blow job chair” displaying the wonders of wind energy. We?...
...Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06-Ian W. Nichols ’06 campaign would have you believe that this election is a referendum on whether or not you are satisfied with the Harvard experience. Do not be fooled. All three of the tickets are equally dissatisfied with Harvard, but Matt and Clay actually understand how to deliver on a positive platform...
...voters are deprived of their ability to abstain; when campus-wide referenda and presidential/vice-presidential elections are conducted on the same electronic ballot, a voter who may want to abstain from voting on the question of their student government leadership, but who feels strongly about one or more of the referendum questions, is unable to cast a vote on the latter while declining to participate in the former. It isn’t hard to imagine, for instance, that a given student might feel that the distinction between renewable and exhaustible energy is more significant than the differences between Matthew...
...Kennedy School got wind of what millions of students, consumers, businesses, governments and various organizations had been doing for years: paying a little extra money to get some clean, renewable energy. They lobbied the student government and the administration and encouraged their peers to vote on a referendum that would add a small fee to students’ term bills. The reasons for doing so were clear enough to the majority of the school’s public policy students: the planet’s energy supply, weakened by the bombing of oil pipelines and the explosive jitters of investors...
Gross’s warning that he would not endorse the fee spurred a lively council debate that lasted over an hour, but a proposal to send the fee to a College-wide referendum eventually passed by a unanimous vote (see story, page...