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This will obviously continue to dominate the Spec and the Columbia community for much of the week, and the administration may have to move beyond strongly worded missives. In the meantime, someone has to figure this out: Is it Minuteman or Minutemen? (Or, perhaps, Two-Pump Chump?) The groups's official name is the Minuteman Project, singular, but their troops are collectively known as the Minutemen, plural. The Spec has used both, with no clear rhyme or reason, and it's time to standardize for the sake of style mavens everywhere...
...motivated people in the UC.”NOW UC HIMThomas D. Hadfield ’08 worked to transform the guidelines governing the UC’s disbursement of over $200,000 in grants to student groups this past year. But for Hadfield, that was just chump change.The Guardian of London estimates Hadfield made over £1 million from website Soccernet, which he created at age 12.Soccernet is now part of sports network ESPN, so Hadfield, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, can turn his attention to campus politics.The council’s bylaws had previously prevented...
...positive press that HFAI has generated for Harvard, it has cost the University relatively little. The most recent expansion of the initiative requires a $2.4 million increase in a nearly $90 million budget. No chump change. But $2.4 million pales in comparison to the money that will be necessary to make a Harvard education universally accessible to the many more numerous middle-income families sending children to Harvard...
...reached when one chump, trying to clarify an inane question about Hollywood mixing with sports, asked Indy driver Danica Patrick why she was at the show. Confused, she put her arms up and scanned the room for help. He thought she was an actress, and slender-shouldered and pretty though she is, the mistake was unforgivable...
Todd, who is a member of the group of chairs, says smaller departments lost tens of thousands of dollars, while larger departments lost hundreds of thousands. “This is chump change,” he says. “The University bought itself a lot of ill will with this, and didn’t buy itself the ability to put up the Guggenheim...