What have students and faculty said about the Pledge?
Aaron Strauss, coordinator of MIT’s 2000 Pledge campaign: People can crunch code and do lab experiments without considering what their company is doing. By taking the Pledge, they will more likely ask questions such as, “Does the waste my lab produces end up in the Charles River? Harvard University grad Sinead Walsh: Sinead never considered herself the “environmental type.” But the Pledge led her to bring about change: I started making changes in my life, such as turning off lights, trying to reuse and recycle. Sinead, a native of Dublin, Ireland, is now in Rwanda working with Population Services International. Christine Miller, 1990 Manchester grad and Pledge signer: I look at it like you have a job for a while, but you have to live with yourself forever. I would rather make a decision that I could say, ‘Yeah, I made that decision’ and be proud of that decision, rather than going against what I truly believe in because I might make some extra money doing it. (Miller influenced her emp
