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Organizers of that school's 25th reunioncelebration had reserved Memorial Hall three yearsago, and plans were underway to have the about 800participants stroll through the Yard on their wayfrom the Charles Hotel to Memorial Hall. But nowthe B-School must bus the celebrants from one siteto another, sources said, to avoid throngs ofundergraduates in the Yard...
Helping skilled Black workers strike crucial industries--for example, bus drivers or mechanics--would do a lot more than just making a statement about the morality of the University's investment decisions. The South African economy is eminently susceptible to pressure from strikes and work stop-pages. Skilled Black workers are a large part of the workforce in scores of industries that crucial to the continued livelihood of white South Africans...
Administrators hoped that the new house office would serve as a shuttle bus stop for Cabot residents, so that they wouldn't have to walk all the way to Currier House to catch the bus. Have you ever tried to get on the shuttle bus in the morning after it has left Currier? Getting an elephant into a Volkswagen would be easier...
Moreover, nobody really ever considered it a hardship to make the 100-yard trek from Cabot House to the Currier bus stop. After all, Quadlings' legs are strong from walking the mile-and-a-half sojourn to the River after missing the shuttle numerous times...
...after bad in hopes of funding a dead horse. For the same $32 million it plans to spend, it could have built a brand new house--perhaps only half as ugly as Leverett or Mather--down by the River. With the money it would have spent on the shuttle bus year after year, it could have built another. Not that Harvard cares to spend any money on the shuttle bus now: after spending millions improving the quad houses, the University can't find thousands to run the shuttle on weekend days or past 1 a.m. on weeknights...