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...that Harvard is increasing rents to cover oil costs without making major efforts to conserve heat. A preliminary study commissioned by the HTU show 86 per cent of tenants lack storm windows, and 73 per cent do not consider their windows "weather tight...
IPaying for at least one major job on what the contractor called a "cost-plus" basis. The work, on 18-20 Ware St., cost many thousands of dollars; and invoices show columns marked "ten-per-cent profit." Other contractors in the area said such arrangements are unusual, adding that the contracts could drive up prices...
...undergraduate straw vote in favor of the Dowling plan, Boylan adds, "was really a pyrrhic victory" because it demonstrated at least as much indifference (only about one-third of the student body bothered to vote in three days of polling in the dining halls) as support (71 per cent of those voting favored the plan). Moreover, 82 per cent of those voting indicated they would like "more student autonomy" in areas like housing and meal plans...
Some students noted that about 30 per cent of the Harvard war dead were not Protestant and that therefore a memorial church would be inappropriate, since Roman Catholics. Jews, Christian Scientists, and Agnostics would not worship in it. Others circulated flyers asking. "What Would Our Dead Have Wished?--A Meaningless Memorial...
...unexpected--news came from the Corporation in mid-January, when it announced that rapidly rising energy costs and general inflation had boosted the tuition, room and board rate into the five-figure range. The increase of 15 per cent over last year's figure of $9170 marks the largest jump in recent memory, and most of the graduate schools followed the College's move by hiking their tuition rates by 15 per cent as well...