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...What costs the same as 110 nights at the Ritz, 640 Lacoste polos, or two matching Mini Coopers? A year at Harvard. Next year, it will be 3.5 percent more expensive. Here are some ways that FM thinks we will see a return on the increase. 1) Stockpiles of scabies cream at UHS. After this year’s little incident, they can’t risk another potential outbreak with the Class of 2012’s unclean members. 2) The MAC will close another six months for renovations. For what improvements? They’re not really sure...
...prospect of an enlarged cabinet angered many Kenyan civil society groups, who argued that the tens of millions of dollars it would cost would be better spent on helping the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the violence. But adding new ministries is not a move to make government more efficient; it's a mechanism aimed at satisfying the demands of the competing ethnic-political factions. Yet Odinga himself is pleading for calm, and neither side has given up hope. Upon hearing about the protests, Odinga told the Associated Press that the demonstrators should "hold their horses." He said...
Amid concerns about the rising cost of fuel, the Cambridge City Council approved appropriations to help low-income families in Cambridge pay for heating oil and to supplement benefits for families that had exhausted their heating benefits at its regular meeting last night. The meeting also marked the first steps toward renaming Plympton Street in honor of deceased Pulitzer Prize winner and Crimson alumnus David L. Halberstam ’55. The proposal, which will require the Council’s Government Operations and Rules Committee to hold a public hearing about the potential name change, was unanimously approved...
...lower participation, although there’s likely to be a feedback loop between them,” he said. But James H. Stock, chair of the Economics department and fellow scholar of human incentive, took a slightly different tack than either Sidanius or Ambrus in his own impromptu cost-benefit analysis of the newly proposed policy. “I think an argument can be made that reduction of the quorum is likely to increase turnout,” Stock said. “Because any Faculty member who knows that quorum will be achieved will have an additional...
...primary arguments in favor of open access for scholarly literature written by faculty and students are both pragmatic and ideological, according to Grant W. Dasher ’09, one of the leaders of the Free Thesis Project. He added that there is a need to drive down the cost of scholarly journals, which would eliminate the high subscription rates for universities. Even as the University shifts to open access, the Free Thesis Project has yet to pick up momentum among Harvard’s senior thesis writers. Jason E. Neal ’08, the only senior to have...