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...offices of the council have always stuck to posters to get their messages out. Beyond poster drops, door-to-door visits from candidates, websites of varying degrees of slickness and a lot of screaming outside of the Science Center, these campaigns have long seemed reluctant to adopt more creative measures??use of a yellow bird outfit in the 2003 campaign of Aaron S. Byrd ’05 aside...
According to Dr. Paul Barreira, most activities related to freshmen alcohol use are “focused on how to help students who may have drunk too much and should have medical attention.” The College currently relies on reactive measures??like distributing alcohol brochures to students who have already been admitted to UHS for alcohol poisoning. In order to be effective, it must educate students sooner by beginning an interactive outreach program to educate students about the danger of alcohol, such as it did in “Sex Signals” for rape...
...association stated that it plans to take “preemptive measures?? against illegal movie-downloaders in the near future. Citing the growing use of broadband and the ease with which people can pirate movies online, the association fears the potential effects downloading might have on the movie industry. In July, the MPAA claimed that illegal downloading could cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue; and Dan Glickman, the MPAA’s new chair and former director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, recently claimed that without preventative measures, moviemakers would no longer have...
...further, then “responsibility” is meaningless. To maintain incentives to save money through reducing resource use while meeting Harvard’s obligation of environmental stewardship, one common-sense solution is to reinvest 50% of cost savings—which result from sustainability measures??into research on campus sustainability or environmental mitigation efforts, like the Kennedy School of Government’s use of 100% wind energy. This solution is still “win-win,” but goes beyond the rationality of saving money to the responsibility of environmental stewardship...
...October 2003, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 established the committee, he promised a somewhat novel approach to the issue. Instead of limiting the committee’s focus to restrictive disciplinary measures??as is the tactic at so many other universities—Gross directed the committee to examining the underlying social problems associated with alcohol abuse on campus. University Provost Steven E. Hyman echoed this sentiment, stressing the need for new approaches to both treatment and education—an area that for years has been relatively untouched by College...