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When all else fails, blame the tourists. The online Idea Bank, Harvard College and FAS’s newest brainchild, launched last week. In the words of Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, transmitted via e-mail to students across campus, the project aims “to creatively [resolve] Harvard’s budget deficit problems”— and it doesn’t disappoint this reliable mantra...
...venue for students to submit ideas for reducing costs and generating revenues, the Idea Bank seemed to be the perfect place to target the obvious cause of Harvard’s budget issues: the plentiful population of tourists colonizing Harvard Yard...
Whereas some proposed closings or cutbacks at Harvard sites ranging from the information center to departments to dining halls, one Bank visitor wanted to extend thriftiness to the most intimate of student hangouts—and no, we don’t mean the plan to go old-school, circa 1636, and reopen the fireplaces to save on the heating bill. Instead, one anonymous contributor boldly suggested, “Make people buy their own toilet paper...
...limiting napkin dispensers in the dining hall to reduce waste and cut costs. Take away napkin dispensers and less people use napkins. Take away toilet paper and... well, maybe in the interest of cleanliness, the administration shouldn’t accept that advice in concert with these Bank ideas: “People can clean their own bathrooms” and the proposed dumping of Dorm Crew...
...have barely changed since Jesus stayed here. Madees's father and uncle were born here, and moved to Boston. When they returned to start the brewery in 1995, they met open hostility from the 16 Muslim villages surrounding them. Alcohol is banned by Islam. (Watch TIME's video "West Bank Brew: The Beer That Made Taybeh Famous...