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...used to loan the PRS devices to students, but switched to the present system because very few students returned themThis semester, five courses used PRS clickers, according to Science Center Lecture Media Services.SAVING PAPER, SAVING CASHThe second Hidden Cost initiative, “Print Plus,” would allot students $20 a semester toward printing in Harvard libraries and computer labs. That amount would be placed on undergraduates’ printing accounts, which presently can only be accessed in College computer labs. UC representatives said they intend to lobby College administrators to expand the accounts for use in campus...
...school, refuse to work and boycott local stores. On Monday, Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, a fierce proponent of immigrant rights, released a statement encouraging his city's constituents to attend a city rally in the evening rather than abandon their posts on May 1; he even suggests bosses allot time for immigration discussions on the clock. According to Mahony's statement, students should "understand that boycotting school on May 1st will not bring about just and humane immigration reform - sometimes, boycotts could even work against positive reform...
...Cambridge Public School Committee unanimously passed the district’s annual budget yesterday, after a committee newcomer proposed a last-minute motion to allot an additional $50,000 to each of the city’s elementary schools. Although the motion introduced by first-term committee member Luc Schuster failed by a 5-2 vote, it raised concerns about the budget drafting process, complicating yesterday’s final vote on the $125 million school budget. Committee member Patricia M. Nolan ’80 originally proposed a similar motion late last month, recommending that an extra...
...make study abroad an option for low-income American students.Harvard students who receive federal financial aid can apply for Gilman scholarships, which offer grants of up to $5,000 for study abroad, according to the Harvard funding website.President Bush also announced a plan at the summit last Thursday to allot $114 million to the National Security Language Initiative, which would promote the study of Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Farsi, among other languages.A related proposal, which would also emphasize the study of languages critical to national security, is part of a bill currently awaiting Congressional approval. The Science and Mathematics...
...mania in a book to be published in April, titled CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap--Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. Among his suggestions: prioritize ruthlessly ("Cultivate the lilies, or the things that fulfill you," he says, "and cut the leeches, those that deplete you"), allot 30 minutes a day for thinking, relaxing or meditating, and get significant doses of what he calls vitamin C--the live connection to other people. "As much as we are connected electronically, we have disconnected interpersonally," he says. Compulsive screen sucking, he suggests, may actually be a symptom of vitamin...