LIGHTS OUT!!!!
"Campuses adjust to being green; From motion-sensor light to water-saving flush, some students find it's not easy to change ways" by Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | September 29, 2008
Tracy Britt has a cautionary tip for colleges as they roll out earth-friendly initiatives: Let there be light. Continuous light.
The Harvard Business School student says she has been losing the battle of the bulb, and precious study time, because the motion-sensitive lights installed over the summer in her renovated dormitory room automatically shut off after 15 minutes.
Plunged into darkness, the 24-year-old from Kansas waved her arms frantically so her two overhead fluorescent lights would come back on. She was forced to repeat the sweeping gesture every time she sat still for too long.
Isn't STUDYING hard enough without this DO-GOODER NUISANCE?!!
Welcome to Massachusetts, Dorothy!!!!
Britt said she endured the nightly nuisance since moving into McCulloch Hall this fall, until a school electrician adjusted the lights recently to make them stay on longer. As the "green" movement sweeps campuses nationwide, Britt's is a rare voice of dissent and a reminder of the need to make eco-friendly efforts also practical for everyday living.
You know, the same guys who came up with ethanol and drove up food prices on the basis of bullshit!
Also see: Boston Globe Admits Global Cooling... in a Brief!
"It's completely obnoxious, especially in this environment where the purpose is to read cases and do homework," said Britt, who said her lights had automatically shut off five to 10 times a night when she was trying to read, study, or check e-mail.
I see you have meant some enviro-cultists!!!!
Officials overseeing Harvard's nationally recognized Green Campus Initiative say they plan to install the sensors in as many dormitories, dining halls, lecture halls, bathrooms, and offices as possible. So far, they say they have not received many complaints.
I KNEW GLOBALIST SHITTERS were behind this!
Yup, TRILLIONS for WARS, etc, etc, etc... while the KID SITS in the DARK!!!
"If people aren't comfortable with the setting, they can ask a building manager to make changes for them," said Gosia Sklodowka, a program manager for the green initiative.
Why TF should they have to do that, shit-fucker?!!!
Aren't they PAYING for the "ejerkashen?"
In addition to the new lights, Britt's dorm boasts special water-saving toilets; a metal wall plaque instructs users to "push the handle in the direction which best suits your needs" - up for liquid waste, down for solids. Each resident also has a recycling basket in their bedrooms, which housing staff empty daily.
Translation: Living in the dorms REALLY IS SHIT!!!!
While residents have largely welcomed the environmental measures, nothing has sparked debate in the dorm like the lights. Some students say they are a small inconvenience to combat global warming.
Carter Romansky, a 27-year-old business school student from Connecticut who lives in another wing of McCulloch Hall, said he does not mind "waving his hands around like a crazy person" to turn his lights back on. In fact, he would be willing to concede to more inconveniences to help save the environment.
Wow, did the BRAINWASHING ever take on this guy!!!!!!!
How about STOPPING BREATHING so WE CAN HAVE the AIR, jerko?!!!!!
"To me, this is only the beginning," he said. "I'd be comfortable with a lot more invasive things like turning the heat down in the winter."
Then YOU CAN FUCKING FREEZE, puke-for-brains!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until the adjustment to her lights, Britt was intent on outsmarting the sensors. On a recent night, she stood on a leather ottoman to inspect the motion sensor on the ceiling, a circular attachment resembling a smoke detector. She removed the plastic cap and tampered with the sensor's timing and sensitivity.
A setting on the device allows residents to adjust the lights so they will go out in anywhere from 0 to 15 minutes when the sensor does not detect motion. Britt, whose patience has been worn thin by the 15-minute setting, has pleaded to the dorm's operations manager to shut the sensor off, but he told her to appeal to a higher power.
At that point, the sensor comes of the wall, period!!!
Sorry Mr. Maintainance man, I don't know how that happened. It just fell.
Many times, she said, she resorted to working by just the glow of her computer screen. She had also given up reading in bed, half of which is out of range for the motion sensor so that waving her arms after the lights go out did no good.
"It's actually been pretty detrimental because a lot of the time, I'll be reading a case study in bed and the lights will just go off," she said. "I'm too lazy to get up, so I just go to sleep."
Right, it is YOUR FAULT you are tired and the school is a bunch of agenda-pushing assholes!!!! Ah, they did you a favor; sleeping better than school any day.
Sometimes, in addition to the overhead lights, she turned on the lamps on her desk and night stand. She acknowledges that her strategy was not particularly energy efficient, but at least that kept her basking in continuous light. --more--"
