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...spending its hard-won Campaign loot on building up existing programs and facilities. The specific goals of the Campaign are basically twofold: raising money for student aid and faculty salaries, and renovating the dorms and other buildings. New buildings, facilities, and programs—which often pack unforeseen costs??are notably absent from the drive’s shopping lists. The money, therefore, is not being wasted on mindless expansion, but rather on strengthening the University’s scholarship on all levels, on making it a habitable place and on helping make sure that students...
...currently pending bill, congressional leaders set on Tuesday the provisional cap on indirect expenses—including administration, building upkeep, and utility costs??at 35 percent, marking an end to a nearly half-century-old tradition of negotiating these rates on an institution-by-institution basis, said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations...
...can’t disregard that doing precisely and only what I want for the next two months—eating, reading, and avoiding the mad crush of vacationers at all costs??is an endlessly (and inexcusably) self-indulgent exercise. If I’m not miserable, how will I know that I’m growing as a person? Isn’t there something terribly decadent and ironic about my snacking on fresh-picked organic cherries and a Parisian chocolate macaroon when I receive an email news update about poor children in South Africa from...
...deciding whether to watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy or study for a chemistry midterm, a Harvard student might express the tradeoff in terms of “opportunity costs.” The same student who failed to calculate his “opportunity costs?? properly might comfort himself when failing that midterm the next day by remembering that he has a “comparative advantage” in lots of other subjects...
...brings to those who are on it, the program can sometimes be a burden to those on the other side—the producers of events. UC presidential hopeful Amadi P. Anene ’08 participated in a meeting earlier in the semester on “Hidden Costs?? that Harvard’s low income students face as part of his current Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP).Representatives from student arts groups were at the meeting and voiced complaints about the necessity of selling tickets through the HBO in order to make tickets available...