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...unlikely they can find new ones. In The Crimson and elsewhere, calls have been made for administrators, faculty, and higher-paid staff to take pay cuts to save jobs. Other institutions have done just this, but at Harvard these calls go unanswered. Harvard has the reputation of preaching concern for the public good but not practicing such concern when it comes to its own affairs. Unless administrators, faculty, and higher-paid staff start to share some of the sacrifice, instead of foisting it all on those who earn far less, the university will continue to deserve this dubious reputation. Stephen...
Quad living will get a little tougher next year, according to many residents. Quadlings cited concerns about safety and an anticipated decline in the quality of residential life due to budget cuts announced on Monday by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The reductions are geared towards helping FAS close a $220 million annual deficit. In particular, the plan to terminate shuttle service to the Quad next year at 1:30 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday—when it has previously ended at 3:45—sparked anger among Quad students. Many said that this cut, along with...
...changes were announced.Hammonds began the town hall circuit with low-key, primarily one-on-one meetings in Lamont Café, followed by larger group meetings in Quincy, Cabot, and Mather Houses, where she was joined by other members of the College administration to answer questions and hear students concerns about the changes—part of $77 million in reductions announced by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and published on a dedicated Web site Monday.While administrators called the cuts “a grueling exercise for everyone” and “a shared pain?...
...change from this week that did concern Thomas was a suggested increase in section size as a result of “close scrutiny” of the allocation of teaching assistants and teaching fellows. At a town hall forum on Monday, Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris said the College plans to make its current target maximum number of students per section more of an “average...
...disruptive military technologies" - tactics which the Pentagon thinks will change "regional military balances and... have implications beyond the Asia-Pacific." China's strategic interests now rim most of the world's continents and it remains embroiled in lingering territorial disputes with its neighbors. Though publicly muted, there is growing concern in capitals across the rest of Asia over Beijing's burgeoning pre-eminence. "There's no escaping the fact that, in the past ten years, China's negotiating power has increased while others have weakened," says C. Raja Mohan, a leading Indian foreign policy expert and professor at Singapore...