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At last fall's mini Woody Eckels, director of residential operations and son of David Eckels, gave us a wonderful presentation about College efforts to cut down on its ecological footprint. The Big Green is going green! Sustainability at Dartmouth is getting a big push on campus. The goals are efficient use of natural resources, establishing practices that can be sustained without damaging the environment, strengthening protection and restoration of the environment and serving as a model for other campuses across the country.

One measure already taken is a campuswide shift to recycled paper. Another is aiming for zero waste in the dining halls. Starting with Home Plate, packaged food—juice, milk, condiments, etc.—will be served from bulk containers. Disposable tableware has been replaced by reusable. All food waste plus paper napkins are composted. All new buildings are to be models of sustainability by consuming as little energy as possible and reusing water whenever possible. The proposed Class of 1978 Life Science Building is expected to use half the energy used by the best performing laboratories in the United States. In addition, it will have a sorghum and grasses roof that will help keep the building warm in the winter and cool in the summer. A storm water management system will reuse 1 million gallons of rainwater annually. In the new McLaughlin and Tuck Mall residence halls is furniture, including 3,000 beds, made in Lisbon, New Hampshire, from wood from the Second Grant. In renovating old dorms an effort is made to use new technologies to save energy and use materials that come from within 200 miles of Hanover. Dartmouth was one of only four colleges that earned an A- (the highest mark given) from the Sustainable Endowment Institute. For more on this subject, please log on to www. dartmouth.edu/~sustain

We regret to report the deaths of Walter W. Acher, Michael Allan Costa, Alfred Jason Densmore, Jay Herbert Downing, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Carroll Leonard Holman, Richard George Lesser, John Edwad Mock and Ernest Frederic Rice. We send our condolences to the families and friends.

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