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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 68
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2013
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Professors seek to decrease solar energy costs By NICOLE BROWN
Stern professor Bryan Bollinger and his colleague at Yale University, economics professor Kenneth Gillingham, are entering the third round of a project on the diffusion of solar technology. This fall, Bollinger and Gillingham will be using the $2 million three-year grant from the Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to continue their research on how to increase the use of solar energy and solve the problem of high costs. The two are working with SmartPower, a green marketing firm, and the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, which started the Solarize CT program last spring. The program attempts to make solar energy accessible for consumers through grassroots marketing and a tiered pricing system. Solarize provides towns with contractors to install solar energy, and the installation prices decrease when the number of residents that adopt solar
energy increases. Part of their plan this fall will be to implement variants of the Solarize program. One is called the Solarize Choice, where they will provide a town with more than one contractor, and the other is called Solarize Express, which will reduce the time of the program from 20 weeks to 10 weeks. Bollinger said in the first and second rounds, the program has had successes in towns in Connecticut and Massachusetts, but it is not clear what components of the solarize program are most important. “Our funding is essentially to fund additional solarized programs in Connecticut and other towns, where we actually modify the program,” Bollinger said. “This will help us to access what components are crucial in leading to such success.” Gillingham said the objectives of their project are to determine a cost-effective
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Spot deconstructs dessert norms with autumn-inspired tapas Chef Ian Kittichai debuts a new line of desserts at Spot’s two locations this October. Dishes include the Big Apple and the peach crumble and will be available alongside Spot classics like the chocolate green tea lava cake.
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Orlando Bloom-led ‘Romeo’ mired by cheap gimmicks By IVY OLESSEN
The worlds of “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Romeo and Juliet” feel as though
they exist in different universes. One reminds audiences of Hollywood’s fascination with handsome men embroiled in swordfights,
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Condola Rashad performs among stunning set design.
while the other evokes memories of grueling high school essays, the dread of pop quizzes and the horror of Elizabethan English. But in David Leveaux’s Broadway adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” now playing at the Richards Rodgers Theatre, these two worlds are connected by the presence of Orlando Bloom. Bloom stars as Romeo, opposite Condola Rashad as Juliet, in a modern-day version of the classic story. The play literally starts with a bang — a jarring explosion at the beginning of the
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Women’s tennis competes in regional championships By SYDNEY PEREIRA
From Sept. 28 through 30, Williams Smith College hosted the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championships in Geneva, N.Y. at the Hobart-Williams Smith Tennis Center. CAS sophomore Ashley Masanto and Stern sophomore Alison Wang from the NYU women’s tennis team both played a Round of 16 in singles and advanced to the semifinals together in doubles on Sunday. In singles play, Masanto started the weekend by defeating senior Emily Maggiore of the State University of New York at Oneonta 6-1 and 6-0, and she defeated freshman Sydney Arsenault of Williams Smith, dropping only two games on a straight set win. On Sunday, Masanto’s singles run
ended against junior Yuliya Orkis of Brooklyn College, 1-6 and 2-6. “Overall, I think I played well,” Masanto said. “My opponents were strong, so I tried to stay focused during every point.” After defeating freshman Hannah More of Williams Smith, 6-1 and 7-5, Wang won a three-setter against junior Alison Tepas of Nazareth College. Wang and Tepas exchanged tie-breakers in two sets. Finally, Tepas fell to Wang in the third set, 10-7. Wang lost to junior Jessica Bourque of Stevens Institute of Technology on Sunday, 6-1 and 6-2. Wang and Masanto began their doubles play on Sunday, Sept. 29 by winning a Round of 16 in doubles against Ithaca College’s sophomore Marni Blumenthal
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