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...Facebook event listed as being hosted by “Harvard Students, Faculty, and Staff” has been created for the rally. HoCo chairs said they also plan to ask their House Masters to take part. Flores, who said she had initially expected “primarily administrative cuts?? to be announced last Monday, said before the meeting that the strong student reaction to the budget cuts is being met with little response from administrators. “[Students] are realizing that no matter how many petitions they’re doing or e-mails they write...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences have unveiled $77 million of budget cuts, slashing everything from paid consultants to hot breakfast in the dining halls. FAS leaders should be lauded for making serious budget cuts, given that many of them will be painful. However, a number of the small cuts??notably the significant reductions in Harvard’s shuttle service to the Radcliffe Quadrangle and the layoffs of House-based administrative staff—would save only a small amount of money while having a disproportionately negative impact on the lives of many undergraduates...
...before decisions are made. While we appreciate the initiative several students have taken in planning the “We Are Harvard” rally this coming Tuesday—with the very appropriate tagline of “students, staff, and faculty for transparency and inclusion in budget cuts??—ultimately, the responsibility for starting these conversations lies with the administration, not with students. The recent commotion caused by these cuts could have been avoided by soliciting respectful student input before these cuts were finalized. Had it widely publicized its cut proposals beforehand, FAS could...
...response to a series of questions about ongoing cuts??such as the 25 percent reduction in House budgets—Smith and Hammonds pointed to various instances where the administration had elected to keep certain commitments...
...common refrain of revisionists is that Bush foolishly pursued “deregulation” by cutting taxes. They simply throw out the term “Bush tax cuts?? followed by a non sequitur explaining why the economy is suffering. However, tax cuts are not deregulation. Deregulation implies a change in the rules and restrictions that structure markets, while tax cuts instead put money in the pockets of American consumers to use within the existing regulatory environment. Plus, not all deregulation is created equal: The poor accounting standards that led to the Enron scandal have nothing...