Word: project
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Straddling the fence between the natural and social science, the project is sometimes criticized for doing neither one well. "On a bad day [natural and social scientists] look on [our research] as something that real scholars do not do," Clark says. "[We are trying to find] the middle ground between critical knowledge and responsible action, and that is a very rare thing in this country or anywhere around the world...
...while Clark is trying on one hand to integrate the natural and social sciences, he is also trying to strike a balance between the worlds of thought and action. With this project, Clark says, he is trying to put together a theory that academics will find useful in understanding how societies cope with environmental problems, and to generate viable policy alternatives for bureaucrats...
...goal was to demonstrate visually how much waste is going on there daily," EAC member Nick B. Kurzon '94 said of the project gone awry. "We just felt that people didn't realize the magnitude [of waste]," he said...
Kurzon, who said that Union workers had been extremely helpful with the project, attributed the mishap to some sort of communication misunderstanding...
...students said they plan to repeat the project in the future and that they hope to convince the administration to use glasses in the Union, Hockenstein said...