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Starting in the fall, we welcomed the Universityâ????s extension of its efforts to â????go green.â???? Harvard received a top spot on the Princeton Reviewâ????s 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll, proving that the school is making good on its promise that green is the new crimson. Commendable measures that the University undertook this year involve installing solar trash compactors around campus, including compostable materials at the popular Fly-By eatery in the basement of Memorial Hall, and encouraging students to recycle, leading to a high 55 percent campus-wide...
...Universityâ????s commitment to the environment is especially commendable in the face of the severe budget cuts that hit practically every aspect of University operations. Overall, the administration did a good job making reasonable compromises and providing cheaper alternatives to some of its more expensive habits of old. Considering the highly publicized 27 percent plunge in the Universityâ????s endowment, student life suffered relatively little. Notably, Quadlings returned to campus to find that their weekend-morning shuttle service had been cut. Though disappointing, this seems to us a reasonable compromise in the face of the original...
...that riled up students most, however, was the cessation of weekday hot breakfast in House dining halls at the beginning of the year. Although not as damaging to students as other cuts that were originally suggested, we still believe the College should listen to studentsâ???? requests to bring back eggs in the morning in the Houses, given that the lack of hot breakfast caused so much of an outcry on campus that it became nationally reported. We are glad that the Undergraduate Council in particular was involved in working with the administration to rectify what many students find...
...commendation of the UCâ????s actions regarding hot breakfast, however, is not to ignore the general air of incompetence that continued to surround the UC this year. Over the summer, the council attempted to raise $6 million in an ill-conceived and complex strategy to build a new student center at 45 Mount Auburn St. The ineffective campaign barely covered its own operating costs, netting only $700, and out of sheer embarrassment, the UC spun the campaign off as a completely separate entity upon the start of the school year...
...telling corollary, even with ever-stricter alcohol regulation on campus, significantly more students were admitted to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol-related illness than in any previous year. We argue that Harvardâ????s alcohol policies push students who want to drink, particularly freshmen, to unsafely binge before going to a party rather than drink socially at the party itself. The schoolâ????s relatively new amnesty policy, which protects ill students and those who escort them to Stillman from disciplinary action, is a good one. But even if it is only this newfound comfort that is pushing...