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...have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced." It is frightening and it is likely to be true, although Gore's theories have detractors...
...wrote that the Unit Test program “will undergo significant reforms” next semester, including reducing the number of graders, enhancing channels for feedback, and rewarding grading performance with monetary bonuses. Wei said that the reduction in the number of test graders was not financially motivated. Although there will be fewer graders, Wei said the move actually will be “cost-neutral” since each grader will be required to work more hours, leaving the total number of paid hours constant. He estimated that the program will hire about 50 students this upcoming fall...
...sure how everything was going to go down. We knew it’d be competitive, but again we hoped to do better than fourth.”The second varsity eight made the day a little sweeter with a second place finish in its event. Although it trailed Wisconsin from the beginning, Radcliffe pulled out a seven-seat lead coming into the half-way mark. Never looking back, the rowers crossed the line in 7:19, ending the season with silver medals around their necks. As the rest of the team focuses on exams and the beginning of summer...
...thin. Despite the disputable pros and cons of each location, only the blindly obtuse could refute that residents of Harvard’s three “Quad houses”—Cabot, Currier, and Pforzheimer—will be disproportionately affected by the recent budget cuts. Although the university has only announced $77 million of the reported $220 million in cuts to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, the most significant changes—closing the Quad’s Hilles library and drastically reconfiguring the shuttle schedule—directly concern only Quad students. With...
...weathering such a formidable economic storm. Certainly, the course on which this university is about to embark will not be an entirely pleasant one. From the perspective of the student body alone, these budget cuts will often negatively impact student life, but they must be endured as they come. Although we understand the necessity of these budget cuts, there is a right way and a wrong way to arrive at these difficult decisions. Unfortunately, the university’s recent actions embody the wrong way—lacking, as is all too typical, in transparency. The planned cuts, including...