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...Harvard Club of Boston, located in the heart of Back Bay, boasts a lobby lined with dark wood panels. A crimson carpet covers its floor. It is the kind of place that conjures up images of graying men in well-cut suits lounging in leather armchairs, nursing a scotch in one hand and a smoking cigar in the other, all the while discussing politics or stocks...
Some departments are plagued with high student-faculty ratios that result in large class sizes and little interaction between students and professors. The economics department, for example, was forced to cut its junior seminars last year because it did not have enough faculty members to teach the courses...
...budget crisis, it seems almost humorous that hot breakfast has gained such prominence on campus. We are in the middle of a national recession, and yet the majority of complaints given to the UC in the past six months have been about the inadequacies of cold cuts and hard-boiled eggs. I have attended countless meetings with administrators discussing student dissatisfaction on this issue, but each conversation comes back to the question of why students care so much. What I finally realized is that hot breakfast symbolizes much more than food. The frustration is indicative of a greater misunderstanding about...
There is no question that students understand that budget cuts are happening, but the last thing we all remember was the day we received an unexpected e-mail announcing the reduction of services in the Quad Library, late-night shuttles, and HUDS breakfast services. In the aftermath of that announcement, there were countless discussions on e-mail lists complaining about the changes. But the overarching theme of each discussion was that students wanted greater transparency and inclusion in the budget cut process and that, for the next round of cuts, something needed to change...
...Idea Bank is an important step in the budget-cut process and one that should be further utilized. Dean Smith and Dean Hammonds responded to student complaints and created an online forum that is meant to guide and influence the recommendations of the working groups on Student Life and Education. Eight students serve on these committees, and as one of those representatives, I can testify how seriously the Idea Bank is taken every week in our discussions...