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...have enabled students to expend their eco-friendly energy in a much easier way. In fact, it’s as simple as riding a bike—a bike that’s made entirely out of salvaged and recycled parts, that is. The EAC launched the VeriFast program Saturday, April 25, allowing students to rent bikes from their Houses at no charge. The EAC was able to launch the program with a $6,500 grant it received from the Green Crimson Fund. “You can go to the super’s office at any time...

Author: By Laura C. Schaffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pedaling VeriFast | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...bicycle sharing program will give Harvard students access to eight pedal-propelled vehicles this spring as part of a new program sponsored by the Environmental Action Committee that aims to raise awareness for alternative modes of transportation. Known as VeriFast Bicycles, the new program will station four bicycles each at Mather and Cabot Houses, and will allow students to check the bikes out—along with helmets, locks, and lights—from the superintendent’s office in each house, said Karen McKinnon ‘10, the chair of the Environmental Action Committee. The new program...

Author: By Marc G. Steinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bikes Push Green Transit | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...such a worthy ambition, in fact, that Harvard plans to start its own version, VeriFAST Cycles, this year. The Environmental Action Committee is targeting Earth Day, less than two months away, to debut bike-sharing racks in two houses. For long commutes from the Quad or to distant classrooms, we eagerly anticipate bike-sharing at Harvard as well...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Bicycle Built for You | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Moschita, of Federal Express commercial fame, leads courses more organized and elucidating than many here at Harvard. (Infact, T.M.U. is grounded in the Harvard tradition, having lifted the Harvard seal and substituted Verifast for Veritas.) Students at T.M.U. get a minute-by-minute--i.e., course by course--written outline. Each period begins with appropriate sound effects. There are snores for philosophy and ape squeels for biology. The professor gives a summary at the beginning of each class--for example, in biology, "I'm a mutant. You're mutant. We are all mutants...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: An Academia Nut | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...VERIFAST...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo and Jeffrey A. Zucker, S | Title: Marathon '83: 'Boston Or Bust' | 4/19/1983 | See Source »

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