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...month that would institute a moratorium on construction by universities in Boston. In order to continue expanding, Harvard would have to continually shell out payments equivalent to the property taxes Harvard would pay were it not a nonprofit as well as receive City Council approval. Arroyo’s bill??effectively a poison pill for Harvard’s future development—is the most extreme product of the community’s uproar...
...Despite extensive coverage in the student press, as well as the unanimous endorsement of the Undergraduate Council in November of 2005, the SASI survey and subsequent survey have gone largely ignored. Most of the bill??s recommendations, including increased faculty searches and appointments, as well as student representation in the Sanskrit department, SAI, and Standing Committee for South Asian Studies, remain unfulfilled. Most troubling, however, has been the administration’s failure to provide students with a concrete, time-based action plan for developing South Asian Studies at Harvard...
...reports.But with control of Congress having shifted to the Democrats, supporters of the bill are optimistic. “The chances [of passage] are pretty good this year,” Connolly said. However, Connolly said, tobacco interests in the committee and in Congress may present obstacles for the bill??s advocates even in light of the recent changes. “At the federal level we value more the economic interest in the industry. More so than years before,” Connolly said...
...cases, including one at MIT in 2000, in which families of college students who were suspected of committing suicide sued universities officials for failing to provide adequate mental health care. “It is the only bill of its type in the country,” said the bill??s sponsor, Delegate Albert C. Eisenberg, a Democrat, in a phone interview with The Crimson. But at Harvard, a top mental health official said that the legislation, if signed into law, could carry dangerous consequences for Virginia universities in forcing them to care for mentally ill students...
...laugh at Jim Carrey for the first time since “The Mask.” Grindhouse Future Uncertain There’s only so much of Quentin Tarantino’s bullshit that I can put up with. Look—I loved “Kill Bill?? as much as the next guy, but dude is reeeeally taking the whole “Look at me! I know that I’m making movies that are throwbacks to old genre films you probably haven’t seen!” thing...