ESC Looks to Make Mudd Environmentally Friendly

Correction appended.

The Engineering Student Council is hoping to make Mudd, the building that houses the School of Engineering and Applied Science, a more environmentally friendly building.
Unlike Columbia College, SEAS has control over its own buildings. After attending the annual Ivy Council on Feb. 2, during which the council passed an energy resolution, Eash Cumarasamy, SEAS '08 and president of the SEAS class of 2008, and Kim Manis, SEAS '09, brought the proposal to the attention of ESC. Representatives from ESC, Columbia College Student Council, and the General Studies Student Council are members of the the Ivy Council, which is comprised of student leaders from across the Ivy League.
Every year, the summit focuses its agenda on a particular theme. This year, that theme is the energy crisis.
There are no concrete details yet on what the ESC intends to do to improve Mudd. They are still in the process of surveying the building in order to assess how to make it less wasteful. They are talking to several environmental student groups including Students for Economic and Environmental Justice and EcoReps to understand how to make Mudd a "greener" building.
"What ESC is trying to do is reach out to constituents, and this is another way to do that," said Diego Pontoriero, SEAS '07, who is heading up the initiative along with Cumarasamy and Manis. "We are trying to reach out to environmental groups and see if we can help out in any way. We really don't have expertise in this area so we're trying to work with other students."
At this year's Ivy Leadership Summit, another conference for student leaders which this year centered on energy policy issues, Theodore Roosevelt IV talked about analyzing "the current effects of an increased demand for limited energy, and ... [gaining] a new perspective on how to approach the upcoming challenges."
Alidad Damooei, CC '09 and acadmic affairs representative for CCSC who also attended the summit, is also doing research and said he plans on bringing the initiative to the attention of CCSC.

CORRECTION: This article incorrectly stated that Eash Cumarasamy and Kim Manis attended the annual Ivy Council on Feb. 2, during which the council passed an energy resolution. They attended the Ivy Leadership Summit, and no energy resolution has been passed. The theme of the conference was "The Future of Energy: Analyzing the Problem and Debating Solutions."