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...will remain a member of board when he assumes the deanship, he said last night. Smith’s experience in the corporate world could give him a leg up in fundraising for the Faculty, which faces a deficit projected to grow to $75 million by fiscal year 2010 amidst major building projects and extensive Faculty hiring earlier in the decade. Both Faust and Smith stressed that they kept their getting to know each other low-key. “It didn’t seem like a courtship,” Faust said. “We just...
...Columbia close in a 1-0 defeat in the last week of the season, the Crimson showed, encouragingly, that it would not quit—no matter what the circumstances. But for many, the season was about asking what could have been, with so many disappointments and lost opportunities. Amidst these apparent failures, there many important questions emerge regarding the program’s future. As it showed in its last match, the young squad played better with time, as freshmen such as Lizzy Nichols and Mann ceased being rookies and became stars. “With our team...
...story of the present-day UC is much older than that—beginning with the burst of activism surrounding the University’s perceived support of the United States military during the Vietnam War, most notably the presence of ROTC on campus. It was amidst the confusion and enmity so characteristic of the era that the student government—a body known as the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)—crumbled, leaving the fate of student legislature largely to a committee led by historian Merle Fainsod, the then-director of the Harvard Library...
This expansion of financial aid at Harvard over the past few years has its roots in discussions on diversity that were taking place amidst the funding challenges of 1982, according to Fitzsimmons...
...Amidst all the hype over his meteoric rise to the top rungs of the Democratic Presidential field, Barack Obama has been especially criticized for running a campaign that is long on high-flown rhetoric and short on policy specifics. On Tuesday, in Iowa, he tried to address that potential weakness in a dramatic way. Taking on one of the nation's most urgent and politically fraught domestic challenges, Obama unveiled a detailed health care proposal that he claims would come close to providing health coverage for the 45 million Americans who now lack it, while reducing health care costs...