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...just my guess, but I would say that under this bill there will be more permits denied than granted," James Remeika '68, assistant director of the Rent Control Board said last week. "It's certainly not going to be easy. if someone is 80 years old and has lived in an apartment for 45 years, and in Cambridge all his life, then there is a pretty good chance the board will find it to be a hardship case and not allow the conversion," Remeika added...
Last year Harvard had a payroll of more than $150 million, but that had to cover 11,500 full-time employees as well as part-time workers. Daniel D. Cantor, director of personnel, points out that an inflationary spiral causes employee morale to topple because the depressed economy spills over into the workers' lives and job performance. Still, Wickenden says she doesn't sense any waves of discontent because of tight money; in fact, she says that in ten years of working in the personnel office at the Ed School, "I don't remember anyone leaving because they weren...
...personnel director says he tries to capitalize on high employee morale. Two years ago one of the personnel office's efforts to combat "bureaucratic void"--what Cantor calls the frequent malaise among employees at large institutions who feel insignificant--was to issue a computerized statement to every employee listing each of his benefits, such as retirement and hospitalization. "That statement helped people know Harvard does care, even though it's a big place. We got literally hundreds of responses, and all but one were favorable. One woman wrote in to say she thought we should not be wasting money...
...University hired a police management specialist to investigate the problem. John T. Howland, executive director of the Institute of Public Service Management, concluded in his report of the University police that the union correctly cited some of the reasons for low morale and recommended that the police take steps to correct the situation, including establishing a better promotion system, increasing internal communication, and providing greater access to job advancement and training programs...
...everyone is taking this policy lying down. Many faculty members and administrators continue to debate the question of art courses for credit. While there is still considerable opposition, many hope that the arrival of Robert S. Brustein, former director of the Yale Drama school and future director of Harvard's Loeb theater, will change the traditional doctrine that performing arts have no part in liberal arts education at Harvard...