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...couple of weeks ago, the University Committee on Calendar Reform made public its final recommendations for a new academic calendar at Harvard. Lost to some extent in the frenzied push to Spring break, the committee??s recommendations have the potential to change life at Harvard and to change it for the better. As one of the undergraduates on the committee, I will tell...
...until they fork over some cash. Indeed, putting the screws to seniors who have reasons not to contribute—e.g., “I’m broke” or “I didn’t like Harvard”—is the committee??s official modus operandi, revealed in the “Senior Gift Solicitation Survival Guide,” which a committee member leaked to me shortly before spring break. Since being on the receiving end of a shakedown is undoubtedly the more unpleasant experience demanding survival skills...
...library hours and better training for lecturers. But the fact remains that the College has little incentive to use the money for any of those priorities, if alums give blindly and never reflect on the quality of their own experiences as students. To take a pointer from the gift committee??s playbook, think of the “improvements in the undergraduate experience for future students” your refusal to donate can effect. When alma mater comes after the pocketbook, it certainly is time for some reflection: not about whether her slush fund needs some cash...
Megan, who sat on the committee, described the selection process as “not a science, but a give and take” among the committee??s members...
...member of Quincy’s tutor selection committee??on which Brown, who was a first-year tutor, also served—said that an e-mail was sent to all the members of the committee except Brown on March 8 informing the committee that they would have to search for a new tutor for next year...