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CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

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2014

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Municipal Recycling In Waterville: A Choice Experiment, Alexander Finigan, Katharine Eddy May 2014

Municipal Recycling In Waterville: A Choice Experiment, Alexander Finigan, Katharine Eddy

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The Waterville, Maine community has experienced many struggles with establishing an economically and socially beneficial method for collecting recyclables from residents. In 2006, the town made the choice to terminate its curbside recycling pickup and open the Skills facility, where residents were able to transport there recyclables and dispose of them at the facility. This proved to also not be economically beneficial and the town ended this option for residents in 2012. The motivation behind establishing a new recycling program in Waterville is making Waterville more environmentally friendly, the creation of jobs for residents in the trash collecting business, moral …


The Color And Value Of Art, Leilani S C Pao May 2014

The Color And Value Of Art, Leilani S C Pao

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

There has been research in psychology, marketing and economics about the impact of color on peoples behavior, in particular peoples consumer behavior. My project examines the relationship between the value of art and color. I am interested to find out whether the solid background a painting is placed on, its environmental color, has an influence on the amount a person values the painting. My experimental survey to the Colby College community and visitors of the Colby College Museum of Art consists of two parts. In the first part of the survey, I ask the participants to come up with the …


Financial Crisis And Its Impact On Institutional College Financial Aid, Salome Giorgadze, Lillian Liang May 2014

Financial Crisis And Its Impact On Institutional College Financial Aid, Salome Giorgadze, Lillian Liang

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The 2008 financial crisis impacted almost everyone in the world, particularly US households that have lost on average in income. A common problem that currently plagues the minds of college students is the cost of education. Households are still recovering from the monetary impacts of the financial crisis. We recognize that college grants and scholarships are important to students who wish to pursue higher education, and so do the colleges. Majority of the colleges have carefully designed institutional financial aid options, which usually consist of institutional grants, scholarships, work studies, and loans. Around 75% of full-time undergraduate students in the …