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Amanda Cohen / The Dartmouth Staff
The recognizable faces of ABC's Good Morning America cast closed Wednesday's episode from the roof of Dartmouth's Big Green Bus, showing off the eco-friendly bus to an estimated 5 million viewers.
Anchorman Bill Weir introduced the student project as "a group of Dartmouth students [who] want to make a statement about our dependence on foreign oil, about safety of the environment, clean fuel and all of that."
The three minute Good Morning America segment, which aired on Wednesday, showed the bus and 13 student and alumni "bussers" at a stop on the eighth week of their 10 week tour around the country.
The bus, which is a run-down '95 International school bus that was converted so that it runs on waste vegetable oil, mystified observers, on and off camera.
"I think we're all fascinated by it," Feature Correspondent Mike Barz said to The Dartmouth after the show.
"It doesn't surprise me that it's Dartmouth.