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...it’s dark out. The Boston sun will bid us a dismally premature farewell—setting prior to 4:20 p.m.—from this week through late December, leaving us indebted to Thomas Edison for practically everything we do. The perpetual darkness of early winter may be a drag, but probably more irritating and monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling. But the real reason to take this measure is neither to generate less prosaic conversation topics...
...charge. For the other five months, it’s a different story. To the delight of petroleum exporters, we burn large quantities of oil to power the light bulbs that keep this country’s homes and businesses running for many hours after sunset in the winter. What can we do to keep the air a little cleaner and our deficits a little lighter? A 2001 study by the California Energy Commission showed that observing Daylight Saving Time year round would cut winter electricity use at peak times by 3.4 percent—a really impressive statistic because...
...burdens of life without daylight are in many cases personal. Six percent of Americans suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) each winter, and an additional 14 percent experience more minor daylight-related mental health problems. SAD is eminently threatening at Harvard, where late bedtimes and heavy workloads conspire to deprive students of natural light. Extending Daylight Saving Time through the winter would alleviate an ample share of such cases...
It’s a little past 7:30 p.m. when Danielle B. Sanzone ’03-’04 enters the Church Street Starbucks. Her blonde hair creeps out from her winter hat and a bright orange and yellow messenger sack, no doubt filled with books, dangles below her hip. Surrounded by graduate students sipping lattes in dim light, she manages to blend...
...Norman thought last year was tough, this year is going to be even more difficult. The loss of the entire starting lineup—which included Harvey, Merchant, Sam Winter ’03, Brian Sigafoos ’03 and Elliott Prasse-Freeman ’03—has cast a dark shadow over the Crimson’s hopes for Ivy success...