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Volume CXXXIII, Number 4 |
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To the Community:
We are the residents of 40 Harpswell Street, located adjacent to the
former Kappa Sigma House. Because 40 Harpswell Street is our home, and
because we enjoy living there, we feel the need to bring an issue to the
attention of the Bowdoin community.
Recently we have had complaints from residents in the neighborhood. Some
have been directed against us, and we have accepted responsibility for
those complaints. However, other complaints have been directed at students
who travel past our house down Harpswell Street on their way to other
off campus residences. Unfortunately, there is little we can do about
these complaints except to ask for your cooperation now.
Please recognize that when you are walking past our house late in the
evenings, that there are Brunswick residents who live all along Harpswell
Street. The neighborhoods around Bowdoin are thickly settled, with many
senior citizens, and it is up to all of us to be courteous to Brunswick
residents who keep very different hours than Bowdoin students do.
We are all members of the Bowdoin and the Brunswick community, and we
must respect our neighbors. So please, help keep Brunswick a great place
to live for everyone.
Mike Balulescu '03
Alan Barr '02
Kris Bosse '02
Ryan Brawn '03
Hugh Hill '02
Torrey Liddell '02
Billy Soares '02
Tim Yanni-Lazarus '03
To the Editors:
The newly inaugurated program for a sustainable Bowdoin, under the management
of facilities, has swung into action with the help of many students. Facilities
employee Keisha Payson has formed a student action committee that is working
to pursue ecological sustainability issues on campus.
The group has decided to tackle several key issues: reusing and reducing
waste, recycling the waste we do generate, and working towards a reduction
of fossil fuel use on campus in an effort to lessen our contribution to
global warming.
Look out for commercials, interviews, and documentaries on the Bowdoin
Cable Network, as well as posters, tables in the union, and WBOR public
service announcements. The goal of the student group and the Sustainable
Bowdoin Committee is to foster sustainable behavior in the faculty, staff,
and students on campus, as well as promoting the importance of sustainability
to the college administration.
The student activity is up and running, but it is not too late to get
involved. If you are interested in promoting the concept and practice
of sustainability on campus, give Keisha Payson a call, and let her know
you are interested. It's never to late to change a thing or two.
Bowdoin's future is on the line. For an institution to survive, it requires
not only financial, but environmental sustenance. And our connection to
The Bowdoin Pines is more intimate than many of us recognize. Bowdoin
Students are moving to change the face of the college and many within
the administration and staff are behind the effort. From treasurer Kent
Chabotar, who chaired the Committee for a Sustainable Bowdoin last year,
to Vivian Asbra in Housekeeping, who helped initiate recycling in Chamberlain
Hall last year and is now working hard to encourage it in the tower. Nearly
30 students have also joined the ranks of those committed to strengthening
the college's relationship with the natural environment.
The movement needs your support. First, convince your roommates, teammates, and classmates to take up the causes of waste and energy reduction. If you want to do more, go talk to Keisha in Room 12 of the tower. We need your help.
Noah Long '03