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Goals
-Communicate the culture
and the perspective of the parties involved through a web
site format.
-Determine the overall sociological effect of ANWR drilling
for each party.
-Search for a compromise between the parties involved.
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Meetings
[11.21-23.03]
Met in Terrascope
room, Next House, and wherever else we felt like doing Mission
work. Updated web site, discussed cost-benefit, drilling proposal,
presentation, and other assundries. Ate too much pizza and
candy and got too little sleep. Mission is a parasite that
is eating my life. Played "Where's Crystal?" but,
unlike "Where's Waldo?" ended up being unsuccessful
in the search.
[11.21.03]
Met in TEAL
room to discuss how to conduct a cost-benefit analysis with
the rest of Mission. Argued about how quantitative we could
be with analysis, listened to Kip's wise insights, and made
sure Team 8 had plenty of work.
[11.16.03]
Group met
with Teams 8 and 9. Discussed cost-benefit analysis and determined
on what topics we needed to do more research.
[11.15.03] Group
met to work on individual proposals and refine final proposal.
To do this, we proofread each other's proposals and updated
the web site (while eating lots of donuts and sugar-free cookies).
We are currently re-evaluating final goal of "searching
for a compromise" because that may not be relevenat to
total Mission goal of finding most "environmentally-friendly
way of drillin" in ANWR (See meeting
video).
[11.09.03] Kris
and Matt met in Terrascope room to discuss final propsal/timeline
details with Mariela. Matt also brough in his summary of the
Alaskan environmentalists' position.
[11.02.03] We
met again today in the Teraascope room to discuss exactly
what our individual groups believe so that when we are split
up tomorrow, then we know exactly what each group's viewpoints
are. We also updated the websites, because it had not been
done earlier on. We put all of our individual groups perspectives
in a word document and printed off four copies so that we
have something tangible to fall back on tomorrow.
[10.31.03] Happy
Halloween! Today we presented our three minute speach on what
our group is currently doing and what we are going to do in
order to present the group with the most overall view on what
everyone believes. We did not have any questions like most
of the other groups, so we do not have anything further the
group expects from us, which is a good thing because we are
coming near a close. We are beginning to think of how the
entire group should finalize the project. We believe that
the group should break up into groups. One group is in charge
of the presentation, one is charge of the website, and the
third is the final written project. There wasn't too much
enthusiasm for this idea, but we will continue to persue how
the group wants to prepare the final project, because we only
have three weeks left.
[10.26.03] We
met today in the Terrascope room to catch up on the research
we have been doing. We decided that our group needed to put
something on the website that is easy to look at by any group
so that they can see what we have found. We decided we should
build a table where there is a subject, and under each subject
is the groups perspective on that subject by each group we
have looked at. We are going to their ideas on the economy,
environmental impacts (animal, and pollution), oil drilling
impact, and the rights of the citizens of the area. We know
that no matter what our final idea, some group will not like
the outcome. We believe that some moderation can be met, in
terms of appeasing the other groups when we figure out the
final idea. For example, if we drill, we can put certain limitations
on the drilling to help keep the environmentalists, the Democrats,
and the Guichins content. And if we do not drill, we put some
other form of jobs and money into the Alaska economy to appease
the Republicans, the citizens, the corporations, and the Inupiats.
Ideas on preserving the culture of the people in Alaska are
more complicated. Natives want to be modernized, but also
want freedom to move around when they are able to. We believe
we could present two solutions to show both sides of the compromises
that are available. We have to look at how to compensate the
groups for what we do. We need to inform the populus about
what is going on.
[10.24.03]
Kris and Anna went to the discussion at Harvard University
and found the discussion very usefull towards our research.
There will be more updates on exactly what was found once
some spell checking has been done. There are many more things
to look at as an entire group that will be volleyed around
the groups, most likely via e-mail. We know this will anger
people, because it is "spam", but it really isn't
because it is so pertinant to the project as a whole.
[10.22.03]
We discussed in our group exactly what we need to do in order
to help the group the most. We decided to write up a chart
to help us visualize what reasons for and against are in each
other the groups we have researched. We also looked into creating
a powerpoint presentation to show what we have learned to
other people. We then told each other what we have found in
our researching process. We are trying not to get too bogged
down on details and decide what we can use in the final presentation.
This is our prelimanary table.
| Reasons
For
|
Reasons
Against
|
| Oil drilling
jobs attracted many of the Inupiats in the area. They
went there when they saw a source of revenue. (Native) |
Disruption to the
environment, peoples and animals in the area will take
place. Any oil drilling will do this. (Environmental) |
| Inupiats
are in limbo between subsistance living and living like
more Westerners do. A lot of what they want ot do require
a job, because they need to pay bills, and buy items they
cannot get any other way. (Native) |
This is a public land
so the entire nation can have a decision in this. If this
was private land, this entire dicussion would be mute,
and drilling would be encouraged. There is nothing to
lose by protesting because all that would happen is that
the land will be protected. (Environmental) |
| Inupiats
are not reliant on the land, they are more involved in
the marine life, so they do not have as much interest
in the Caribou herds. (Native) |
Guichin are subsistance
people, their main form of living is hunting large game,
and they do not kmport much at all. Oil and the prescence
of more people will hurt the species that they rely on.
(Native) |
| Thorugh
different oil prospects came the groups school systems
and running water. (Native) |
The Polar Bear is
very finicky about what goes on in their area and it is
one of the main sources of food for the Guichin. (Native) |
| The
revenue from jobs that are created when drilling companies
start new projects, will boost the economy of the area.
(C and G) |
The
Corporations are not holding true to their word on when
oil drilling will take place, and the ecological impact
oil is having. (C and G) |
| The
Government recieves subsidies from the oil companies and
they can use that money for projects that can help the
people in that area. (C and G) |
Relations
with other countries, especially Canada, will be greatly
affected if we decide to drill. (C and G) |
| Methods
to make sure that the environment is protected have emproved
emensely. Making oil spills less frequent, the impact
on the environment less, and making clean up methods more
efficient. (C and G) |
|
[10.15.03] - Visited
Hayden Library and started doing some research in book sources
rather than online materials. Were rather successfull in finding
information, especially from reserve stacks. Need to read
and prepare for Perspectives by team meeting on Friday.
[9.30.03] - In our group
meeting we discussed exactly what we needed to find out for
the assignment. We looked at our specific agenda as written
on the Mission page, and those of the groups around us. We
decided that we may be covering more information than is absolutely
necessary, because it is being covered by another group already.
We decided that we do not need to look at the entire United
State's point of view on the subject, but need to focus more
on the Alaskan people and their perspectives. We are restructuring
our groups so that Matt, who is researching environmentalists,
is now going to focus on the environmental groups in Alaska,
Anna, who is researching corporations, will focus on corporations
based in Alaska, or directly related to the oil coming from
ANWR. Crystal and Kris, who are researching the citizens of
Alaska, and the individual tribes in Alaska, respectively,
will continue their research as previously.
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Web Site
[11.15.03]
- Updated Perspectives page with views of Alaskan corporations.
(am)
[11.15.03]
- Updated Perspectives page with views of Alaskan natives.
(kh)
[11.02.03]
- Went through and formatted pages so they all still looked
the same. (mz)
[10.27.03]
- Added Perspectives page. (mz)
[10.16.03]
- Made web site look a lot prettier, added some research,
added team members page, updated index page, updated progress
report, and got rid of the fuschia backdrop. Let me know what
you think. (mz)
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