Word: winded
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...efforts to change an entrenched status-quo, especially at Harvard, there comes a point when sheer idealism must be abandoned in favor of a more practical solution. For the Environmental Action Committee’s struggle to get an optional wind energy fee on the termbill, we believe that point is now. After 82 percent of voters favored the termbill fee in last month’s Undergraduate Council election, little doubt was left as to whether the issue of wind power was a priority for students. As we said then, there is no reason why the University cannot...
Since that vote, however, Harvard administrators have shown surprisingly strong resistance to using the termbill in this way. They have instead hinted that the College might purchase wind power through some other mechanism. The merits of using clean wind power, regardless of its source of funding, are of such overriding importance that we are open to weighing alternative strategies. But it would be premature for the Faculty Council to vote on the proposal at this time as it currently plans to do at its Jan. 26 meeting. Instead, the Council should demand that the administration propose a viable, concrete plan...
...faculty or administration resistance, another suitable outcome would be an announcement that the College was following the example of the John F. Kennedy School of Government. That graduate school notably changed its energy policy, and a took a lead well worth following, by converting its energy use to wind power. The way it did this is even more admirable, not through an optional fee or other end-runs around bureaucracy but through regular budgetary procedures...
...such an announcement is not as farfetched as it might seem. While University President Lawrence H. Summers and other key administrators have made their opposition to the passage of the termbill fee well-known, they have hinted that there may be an alternative way to fund the use of wind power. We applaud the signs of imminent action and are open to any new proposals the administration may present. This is especially true if, as has been suggested, they end up transferring more energy use to wind power than the termbill proposal would...
...Some post-tsunami images last week of smiling Asian children returning to school underscored this amazing capacity to right ourselves. And a substantial body of research documents our tendency to return to the norm. A study of lottery winners done in 1978 found, for instance, that they did not wind up significantly happier than a control group. Even people who lose the use of their limbs to a devastating accident tend to bounce back, though perhaps not all the way to their base line. One study found that a week after the accident, the injured were severely angry and anxious...