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...Another point of focus during the meeting was diversity within the Faculty. Smith said that he had fielded some comments about how the ballot to elect five new members to the Faculty Council??the Faculty's governing body—lacked female representation...
...operating budget of $434.1 million represents a 5 percent increase over the 2008 budget, and will require a 5.68 percent increase in property tax revenue, Healy said at the meeting. Councillors said they agreed that, in important ways, the budget fulfills some of the city council??s primary goals. “The most significant occurrence in this budget is that for the first time in a long time, we will see an increase in the number of police,” Healy said. The city will hire four new police officers, who will be trained to work...
...student was allowed to answer a question concerning his or her own religion.“I was very pleasantly surprised by how many facts—some obscure—students knew about other faiths,” said Sabrina A. Zearott ’09, the council??s publicity chair. “I didn’t realize how aware Harvard students are of other faiths.”Zearott herself answered one such obscure question, when the moderator asked for “the name of the first Hindu sage to come to America...
Disagreements about the Cambridge City Council??s relationship with the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) brought heated debate to the Council??s weekly meeting last night. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker introduced a proposition requesting a “dollar-to-dollar review” of the funding that the Council provides to CHA, citing CHA’s lack of formal accountability to the Council and its recent decision to remove obstetrician-gynecologist services from three of its 12 neighborhood clinics. The Council approved Decker’s measure with an amendment requiring the city manager...
...assume that this can fix all of Harvard’s dining issues. We still invite its members to eat more often in the dining halls so that their voices are counted among the heard. The more input, the better, HUDS has quite rightly realized. Indeed, the Advisory Council??s grassroots campaign is only the latest example of its remarkable responsiveness to student concerns. Just as HUDS has been the model College agency, it is time for students to be model college citizens and participate in the process themselves. So take some time this week to give HUDS...