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...three decades, launched a comprehensive effort to completely revamp undergraduate education at Harvard. Meanwhile FAS, and in particular the sciences, promised to be at the center of the University’s multi-billion dollar campus expansion across the Charles River into Allston, for which plans—and donors??€”were being lined...
Although money is necessary to win a modern campaign, its influence is easily over-estimated. Most successful candidates raise more money than their competitors, but most donors only want to give to a winning candidate, and therefore the fundraising disparity could simply reflect donors??€™ risk-aversion. It is a chicken or egg question: The same qualities that lead to electoral success—charisma, policies, and experience—also lead to increased donations, so it isn’t clear whether candidates win because they get more money, or vice-versa...
Every three seconds, someone needs a blood transfusion, and each day about 35,000 pints of donated blood are used. Because blood lasts only about 40 days, doctors and patients depend on a steady supply from donors??€”a supply that sometimes runs short, especially during national disasters, summer, and the winter holidays. Donating blood at Harvard is relatively easy; the college hosts four blood drives a year at which students can come in, get a quick physical examination, give blood, eat snacks, and leave, all within an hour...
...register, potential donors must get an HLA test, which costs over 50 dollars, a cost that seems prohibitively high. The government subsidizes testing costs for certain minority groups, some health insurance policies cover HLA testing, and the families of the sick often offer to pay the cost of potential donors??€™ tests, as Cross’ family has done. But, in order to encourage more widespread HLA testing and potentially save many lives, we hope that the U.S. government will consider subsidizing testing costs not only for ethnic minorities, but for all citizens...
While Summers’ own presidency didn’t end in success, his supporters among Harvard’s alumni and benefactors aren’t willing to write the effort off as a failure. Summers’ ouster, in these donors??€™ eyes, was more of a mid-term result...