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...recently saw somewhat of a panic with swine flu. Are viruses the thing that's going to wipe this planet clean, as opposed to nuclear bombs? It certainly is the one threat that seems to allow us to be irrational about things. A nuclear attack requires a device, it can be intercepted, it can only affect a certain area. There is a logic to the way it spreads. But a virus grows exponentially. Every time it expands, there's a casualty. It's closer to a panic - closer, therefore, to a very primal fear...
...wrong.” He added that schools and departments around the University have only begun requesting meetings with the union this past week. Under the union’s negotiated contract, Harvard is required to notify and consult with the union before conducting any layoffs in order to allow the union to propose alternatives to job cuts, Jaeger said. Similarly, University spokesman Kevin Galvin said that while Harvard will likely “have to make further changes to the size of its workforce” in the face of an unprecedented fiscal crisis, discussions with union partners...
...Yanamadala says that professors should be trusted to form ethical relationships, and that disclosure and transparency will allow for complete “self-regulation...
...looking to reduce services to students,” she said.The office has collaborated with Harvard Student Agencies and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard to initiate a new summer program, the “Innovation Space Summer Expansion.” The initiative will allow students to use its interview facility on Massachusetts Avenue as office space for developing entrepreneurial ideas, and will cost OCS little besides a water cooler and a few printers.CUTS IN ADVISINGBut other advising offices are suffering more than OCS from Harvard’s budget crisis.A document obtained by the Crimson last month...
...Although every budgetary plan eventually “rolls up” to Smith’s office for final review, his purview is much too vast to allow much attention to details. “I did not go through all the different proposals from all the different units. That would be crazy,” Smith said in an interview last week, about proposals for cuts sent in by units over the past few months. Instead, he focuses on recommendations flagged as “affecting multiple units” or with far-reaching consequences...