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...longer mobile and need the support a family can provide. And while families welcome returning seniors, it's not always easy. Fisher, for example, already had her hands full with work, her own retirement planning and an autistic son. Retirees who leave and return also "put an increasing burden on their community's infrastructure," says Sandy Markwood, CEO of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging...
...compelling enough). As the UC points out, a reformed calendar would relieve stress and improve mental and physical health, give students time to see friends and family, mesh better with NCAA calendars for athletes, better fit the schedules of international programs for students wishing to travel abroad, ease the burden of flying home for international students, and save Harvard a boatload in energy and staffing costs. A reformed calendar would also put all of Harvard’s schools on the same schedule. The opportunities for increased inter-faculty coordination and cooperation was one of the main reasons that...
...Harvard has tried to ease the burden with a pilot program that offers $150,000 in scholarships for 14 students to use at its six affiliated childcare centers, said Nancy S. Costikyan, manager of the Office of Work/Life Resources. The office also launched the Graduate Student Assistance Program, which addresses dependent care and life balance issues...
...past, the Guard and Reserve were a strategic reserve," General Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, told Congress last month. "They're now part of the operating force of the United States Army." Acting Army secretary Pete Geren agreed. "They have carried a heavy burden in the war," he said. "A third of our soldiers that are deployed have come from the Guard and Reserve and we're going to continue to look to them as part of the frontline force...
With the river houses left for upperclassmen, and all sophomores sharing the presupposed burden of Quad housing, class bonding could continue beyond the sacred freshman year, and students would even feel a greater sense of overall college community...