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...made it clear to those who were watching that the demand for Summers’ resignation was not just the product of some radical marginal opinion,” Matory says...
...events like the increased-capacity Senior Soirée and the tasting and tour at Westport Rivers Winery remained so, but increased participation showed elsewhere in the week’s schedule. SCC member Prital S. Kadakia ’06 said 2006 saw “much higher demand than we’ve seen in previous years.” He pointed to large attendance increases, including 70 students more for a trip to the Six Flags amusement park and a roughly 200-person jump for the annual Moonlight Cruise through Boston Harbor, as signs indicative...
...legal talent into evicting them. Many Harvard employees, angry at anti-union campaigns, have complained as well. The seed Harvard has planted with its tenants is starting to bear fruit; a month ago, they began to band together in a Harvard tenant union to complain about abuses and demand fairer treatment. And there are some signs their tactics will work—the most hopeful proof is the experience of the city government in recent months. For generations Harvard ignored the city problems, including those to which they contribute; this year, though, the city won the right to regulate University...
...bottom line: $60,000. Perhaps the reconstituted Student Assembly will be able to do more than stage rock concerts with that money. Perhaps it will save a little for its own purposes and distribute the rest to campus organizations that will use the funds to confront the administration and demand real change. We cannot wholeheartedly support the Dowling committee reforms because we believe they hold out a false promise. In this University, one side, the administration and the Faculty, holds all the power. The other, the students, have none. And in a system like that, the powerful will not relinquish...
...Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor of the University’s hiring process. Harvard assembles a staggering array of data and specialists’ opinions before conferring tenure, making it the most sought-after and demanding appointment in the academic world. It is therefore difficult to imagine a human population more compulsive in its work ethic than Harvard professors. Fallible as we are, we are people trained by decades of education, and we believe that the best thinking is a collective process in which civility, fairness, respect...