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S.A. Resolution #XX

2 Increasing Sustainability and Comfort in Residential Dormitories
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4ABSTRACT: This resolution requests
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10Whereas, Article II of the Charter of the Student Assembly states that the Student
11Assembly has the authority and the responsibility to examine any matters which
12involve the interests or concern the welfare of the student community and to make
13proposals concerning those issues to the appropriate officers or decision-making
14bodies of the University; and
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16Whereas, Article III, 1 of the Student Assembly Charter states that the SA will
17have legislative authority over the policies of the Department of Campus Life; and
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19Whereas, roughly 51% of students live on-campus; and 1
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21Whereas, http://dos.cornell.edu/off-campus-living
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23Whereas, the Student Assembly has expressed interest in making Cornell more
24environmentally friendly by reducing wasteful emissions; and
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26Whereas, room temperature in newer and retrofitted dormitories is computer27controlled; a
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29Whereas, within these newer dormitories students currently are granted
30temperature control within a certain temperature bound, typically only 2 around
31a central temperature (e.g. 70 allows for students to set a temperature between
3268-72) via a wall thermostat within their room; and
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34Whereas, in both warm and cool weather some students open windows to warm up
35or cool off their respective rooms; and
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37Whereas, in both warm and cool weather some students open windows to warm up
38or cool off their respective rooms; and
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40Whereas, this opening of windows decreases the efficiency of building heating &
41cooling as well as increasing costs and University's carbon footprint; and
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43Whereas, enabling students to keep their rooms cooler in the winter months and
44warmer in the summer months does not entail any extra cost in utilities but can
45increase student comfort; and
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47Whereas, enabling students to keep their rooms cooler in the winter months and
48warmer in the summer months does not entail any extra cost in utilities but can
49increase student comfort; and
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52Be it therefore resolved, that the Office of Student and Campus Life Facilities
53modify the temperature bound where technologically feasible to allow students to
54make their room temperatures colder in the winter and warmer in the summer to
55allow students more flexibility (e.g. making a winter temperature bound of -4 and
56+2 or a summer temperature bound of -2 and +4) to increase student comfort,
57reduce utility costs, decrease carbon emissions, and promote sustainability on
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61Be it finally resolved, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the President, Acting
62President, Vice President for Student & Campus Life, & Vice President of
63Infrastructure Properties and Planning.
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65Respectfully Submitted,
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68Undesignated at Large, Student Assembly
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