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...city council decides to give Harvard a “mini-stimulus package” in order to reinstate some of the workers who have already been laid off, as some have suggested, this might induce Harvard to scale back some of its layoffs. Harvard is under no obligation to keep employees it does not need, however, and it should accept such a package only if it will not work against the budget cuts Harvard is trying to make...
...city council has also suggested that Harvard make cuts in the wages of higher-paid academic staff and professors instead of laying off lower wage workers. This would not only hurt the university’s academic programs, but in many cases also would not even be possible. Many professorships are endowed, so the university cannot simply take away part of a professor’s salary and use the money to maintain another employee. The City Council’s apparent refusal to recognize this point suggests a larger misunderstanding of the way universities allocate their funds, since endowments...
...city council’s request is unrealistic and, since the council is offering few suggestions that can actually be implemented, seems to be based purely on political concerns. The council needs to recognize that Harvard’s mission lies in education and research, not in job generation, and to stop wasting its time with meaningless theatrics...
...Undergraduate Council discussed potential changes to the Council’s structure during their general meeting yesterday. In response to the Dowling Report, which was released March 2, UC members debated alternatives to its committee structure, the size of the Council, and the timing of elections. The Dowling Report, a review charged with the task of considering student governance on campus, raised several issues that would require the UC to amend its constitution in order for the changes to be implemented. The report recommended that the UC’s Finance Committee have a rotating membership, but that idea received...
...Europe is not doing enough," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "It does not have a coherent strategy, and as a result is doing less than it could and a lot less than the situation merits." Korski says there are a number of ways Europe can make a difference in Afghanistan, aside from simply sending more troops - from helping in the fight against corruption, to the EUPOL mission mentoring and training Afghan police...