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...Harvard begins to confront its most severe budgetary and financial contraction in a generation, administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have unveiled $77 million of budget cuts, slashing everything from paid consultants to hot breakfast in the dining halls. FAS leaders should be lauded for making serious budget cuts, given that many of them will be painful. However, a number of the small cuts—notably the significant reductions in Harvard’s shuttle service to the Radcliffe Quadrangle and the layoffs of House-based administrative staff—would save only a small amount...
...HUDS blog, an anonymous commenter made an interesting point about the logic behind the hot breakfast...
...recent cuts announced by Dean Smith reflect the top-down process by which these decisions were made. Broad community input would have alerted the administration to the serious issues that have been raised with many of these cuts. Decisions to reduce shuttle service, close the Quad library, cut hot breakfast, increase section sizes, and slash House budgets were made without real input from the communities affected by these cuts. Going forward, we are concerned that this pattern will continue as future cuts are announced over the summer and into the fall, when student input will be even more limited than...
...deny the Grant Study its ambitious objective to pinpoint the causes of happiness has a whiff of the wet blanket about it. But there’s something even more miserable about thinking that our happiness can be defined by the jobs we choose, or what we eat for breakfast, or how many miles we run each week. Freud himself pointed out that the only thing normal is pathology, which makes applying a bell-curve-style prescription for joy more than a little reductionist. Even if all the indicators in our lives point to success, a craving for something indefinable...
...wholesome South African breakfast, or a large wedge of chocolate cake, take a break at Kalk Bay Expresso (73 Main Road, tel: (27-21) 788 8843), located in an antique railway dining carriage near the platform of Kalk Bay station...