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...University’s deep pockets can, and should, ease the burden on FAS. To do so, however, Harvard will have to show generosity when it distributes funds from the endowment. University President Lawrence H. Summers should lobby the Harvard Corporation to grant larger increases in the endowment’s payout to FAS for the coming years. As Kirby has pointed out in his letter to the Faculty, if “we say ritually, that Harvard College is at the heart of the University, we must work continuously to make that statement true.” Harvard?...
...drive to overclassify inmates is also an economic burden on the entire Massachusetts population. Placing a prisoner in a cell block just one security level higher than he deserves costs the state an additional $15,000 annually. According to the Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services, who obtained their raw data from a report commissioned by the Department of Corrections itself, approximately 5,000 inmates are currently being overclassified by at least one level. By this estimate, which is a conservative one, the state wastes $75 million every year on this problem. Senate Bill 1311, by making it easier to overclassify inmates...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education, it did not even give the committee the opportunity to vote on the plan before it was placed on the docket for a Faculty vote. Kirby should have conducted a survey of all undergraduates to gauge student opinion before he presented his plan; now the burden is on students to come to Kirby and the Faculty with their dissatisfaction...
...administration has unfortunately and unfairly placed the burden of fighting to save shopping period on the undergraduates who it would hurt the most. In the future, Kirby and the administration should solicit student opinion about their plans; but in the meantime, students should make their voices heard. Hopefully such strong student resistance will convince the administration to abandon its ill-conceived plan...
...confront the injustice of the HEA drug provision. These efforts must continue. We citizens must not become as complacent as our politicians, whether in regard to this particular law, drug policy, or national issues in general; the essence of democracy is at stake. In such times, when the burden to do what is right falls upon the people because their representatives have failed, knowledgeable citizens have a duty to inform others...