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Dressed as energy-inefficient Ford vehicles, members of Harvard’s Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) went door to door in various Houses and Yard dorms Wednesday evening, seeking through preemptive “reverse trick-or-treating” to raise student awareness of alternative energy options and persuade Ford to make these options available in their most popular cars and trucks...
Cardboard-encased SSC members picked up between 500 and 600 signatures as well as several new members after canvassing the first-year dorms, the DeWolfe complex, and Quincy, Mather, Leverett and Currier Houses, SSC leaders said...
...Most people were supportive, by and large,” said SSC Co-Director Joshua Suskewicz...
...activist arm of the Environmental Action Committee, Harvard’s umbrella environmental organization, the SSC is in general most concerned with off-campus issues...
...evaluating the reasons why physicists are pursuing business careers, employment seems to be a strong motivating factor. "Right now the job market in physics itself is pretty dismal, especially with the recent cut of the SSC. It really decimates one branch of physics," says Bass. The SSC, the Superconducting Supercollider, was an $11 billion particle accelerator in Texas whose funding was cut by Congress in October...