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Having paid positions also ensures effort on the part of student leaders. “Some think that having REP be a paid position is not ideal, but I think that it’s a good move...because it provides extra incentive for REPers to take it seriously,” says Firth M. McEachern ’08, a former Cabot REP leader and FM comper...
...times, it may seem difficult to gauge the effectiveness of a program aimed at increasing sustainability, a numerically immeasurable quantity. But though there are no distinct numbers to evaluate sustainability, REP does have some results to go by. Allison I. Rogers ’04, a former program coordinator, points to recycling and trash numbers as a measure of the program’s success. “If we were to go back to the baseline in 2001, the last year before it existed, we would see a huge difference in the number of energy consumption and trash...
More important, however, is how effective REP has been in getting through to students...
...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...
...even if students themselves aren’t spurred to activism by REP, the statistics speak for themselves. Since the program was started, College-wide energy consumption has decreased by 9 percent, $288,488.56 has been saved in lower energy bills, and 885.24 metric tons of CO2 has not been added to the atmosphere. With the exception of Winthrop, all of the houses have shown a reduction in their energy usage, with Mather leading the way with a 12.4 percent reduction over the past three years...