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Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Judith D. Singer, whose office prepared the report, said that comparisons to peer institutions were difficult to gauge and that the strides Harvard has made are more pertinent to the University...
...deal of work, she says, as she described the role of social networking in her life as a producer. “I’ve negotiated deals half-drunk at parties,” she told students. Despite the seeming glamour of her job, however, it is a difficult and exhausting one. “I send over 300 emails a day, at least,” she said. It also doesn’t easily pay the bills—Louie says that when producing an independent film, one must take on commercials and other potentially less desirable...
...imposing restrictions of some kind, when you don’t have time to make the 30-minute round trip back to the Quad for a meal, finding a place to eat in a dining hall that doesn’t treat non-residents like criminals can prove difficult. Although HUDS does a great job of making quick meals for students who don’t have time to eat at their dining halls as palatable as possible, no one can argue that Fly-By and bag lunches are an acceptable substitute for a hot meal in a dining hall...
Restrictions also make dining with residents of other houses more difficult. The one resident, one guest policy can cause problems for groups of diners that include residents of multiple houses. For example, since I live in the Quad, when I want to eat dinner with friends who live in, say, Winthrop and Lowell, the three of us have no choice but to join the crowds in one of the view houses without restrictions...
...fight for a seat in my house’s dining hall, I understand the space crunch in other dining halls that encourages the more conveniently located houses to institute dining restrictions. The restrictions don’t need to make finding a place to eat more difficult for everyone else, however. There are a few simple things that could be done right now to help ease some of the congestion...