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Harvard’s endowment, valued at almost $37 billion last June, was buffeted by current financial conditions, losing roughly 22 percent of its value by the end of October and sending the University scrambling to find ways to trim costs. Amidst subsequent belt-tightening measures—including a hiring freeze on FAS staff announced in November—the specter of possible layoffs has loomed over some staffers worried that their jobs may be in jeopardy...
...percent of its spending needs, but the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, at the other end of the spectrum, receives 83 percent of its budget from the endowment. The Divinity School—which receives 71 percent of its budget from the endowment—has planned more extensive belt-tightening measures than many of its peers. The school will cut its annual budget by four to eight percent and is already “reducing sharply” the number of visiting and adjunct professors, according to a letter from Dean William A. Graham to the community late last...
...dispatching Penn’s Drake Porter 3-1.“[Cohen was] unbelievable,” Bajwa said. “Frank literally took over the responsibility of the team and pulled out a very tough match. He played like a junior with three years under his belt and I was very happy for him.”With inspirational play up and down the lineup, the Crimson will look to bring a revitalized squad to Yale next week and mirror its early weekend brilliance.—Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...Issuing temporary work permits is a nonstarter in Assam, where the growing population of Bengali-speaking Muslims - the euphemism for which is "demographic shift" - is seen as both a political and an economic threat to the ethnic Assamese majority, who are mostly Hindu. "There is a very substantial geographic belt in which the Assamese are rapidly becoming a minority," says V.R. Raghavan, an adviser at the Delhi Policy Group. "They want to retain their dominant position...
...Malkin Athletic Center on Saturday. After dropping its first contest to the fourth-ranked Ducks, the Crimson came out ahead in the next three games for a 3-1 win overall (23-30, 32-30, 30-27, 30-27). “Once we had a game under our belt we felt a lot more comfortable,” junior co-captain Gil Weintraub said. “We have a home crowd and we use it to our advantage. Once we started rolling, the Crimson in motion stays in motion.” In the first game, Stevens dominated...