Pack the Senate!
November 9, 2009
This Wednesday Student Union Senate will consider a resolution that urges the University to remove the dishonest marketing term “Cl#@n Coal” from the name of the Consortium for Cl#@n Coal Utilization. “Cl#@n Coal” is an industry marketing term intended to obscure negative effects of coal extraction, combustion, and disposal. As an institute of higher education we must not insert such a counter-educational phrase into the public discourse on energy.
Come to the senate meeting Nov 11 at 9 pm in Simon Hall room 113 and speak your mind.
Email your senator (http://su.wustl.edu/find-your-senator) asking him/her to support the upcoming resolution. A sample email:
Dear Senator _________ ,
This week the Student Union senate will consider a resolution that urges the University to remove the dishonest marketing term “Clean Coal” from the name of the Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization. As your constituent, I fully support this legislation and urge you to help it pass.
As a center for higher education and exceptional research, the prestige of Wash U is very important to me. As such, any actions on behalf of the university that could potentially cast doubt on the integrity of university research are deeply unsettling. “Clean coal” is a industry-created marketing term that seeks to hide the negative impacts of coal extraction, combustion, and disposal, and it has no place at our university.
This issue is important to me as your constituent- I will attend the senate meeting on Wednesday night to demonstrate my support- and I request your assistance to pass the resolution,
Jane/Joe Constituent
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