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...Sciences. The reductions are geared towards helping FAS close a $220 million annual deficit. In particular, the plan to terminate shuttle service to the Quad next year at 1:30 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday—when it has previously ended at 3:45—sparked anger among Quad students. Many said that this cut, along with the end of service at the Quad library, will force many to do work at Lamont Library and face an inconvenient and unsafe commute back from the Yard. “This isn’t an issue of Quad kids...
...University announced Monday that it will discontinue staffed food services at both the Widener Library Café and the Quad’s Penthouse Coffee Bar in the coming months, although both spaces will remain open for student and staff use. The moves are among $77 million in cuts geared towards helping the Faculty of Arts and Sciences close a $220 million annual budget deficit. Beth S. Brainard, a spokeswoman for Harvard College Library, said that while she could not discuss the specific “big-time dollar amounts” saved by the Widener Caf?...
...between what FAS is doing and what matters to students,” said Adams House Committee Co-Chair Amol K. Jain ’10 during the meeting in Quincy. “This stinks of rhetoric—the whole Web site does.”Chief among students’ concerns—especially at the Cabot venue—were cutbacks to the current Quad shuttle schedule.According to the list of reductions published on the FAS Web site, the Sunday through Wednesday shuttle service to the Quad will cease at 1:30 a.m. rather than...
...Among policymakers, one of the phrases you hear most often is "bend the cost curve." The need to do precisely that became even clearer on Tuesday, with the release of the annual report of the Medicare trust fund. The trustees projected that the Medicare Part A (or hospital) trust fund will become insolvent by 2017, which is two years earlier than previously estimated. (Read "The Fire This Time: Is This Health Care's Moment...
...quandary for Iraq's neighbors, which play reluctant host to the refugees. The exact number of refugees is hard to gauge, but the Iraqi government estimates there are 2 million. The majority of them live in Syria and Jordan, which are struggling with weak economies and mounting joblessness among their own populations. Government officials in Damascus and Amman have been counting on the improving security environment in Iraq to persuade many refugees to go home. Aid workers in both countries say many refugees are being pressured to leave. (See pictures of the recent revival of daily life in Iraq...