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...retirement incentive package. Eligible employees are those over 55 years of age who will have worked at the University for at least a decade by June 30. According to Mount, if a substantial number of employees accept the package, then the University-mandated budget cuts will be less drastic for offices within Harvard, such as OCS. Currently, six OCS staffers would be devoted to counseling undergraduate students on an individual basis in July, among other duties. These employees—and additional OCS staffers—may be expected to take extended unpaid vacations in July, while...
...transplants lies in murky ethical territory, says Dr. Roger Gosden, director of reproductive-biology research at Cornell's Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. Gosden, who did early research in ovarian transplantation in sheep and has co-authored several papers with Silber, says it's difficult to justify such drastic measures when there are so many other avenues to motherhood - adoption, surrogacy, egg donation. What's more, the prospect of a lifetime of drug therapy and its impact on the patient need to be heavily weighed, he says. "I suppose you could say, 'She could have the transplant...
...administration intends to make drastic changes on J-term plans going forward, it needs to solicit input from students when considering possible decisions. The recent near-silence about calendar change plans does not bode well for university-student relations...
...Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. The results were disastrous; according to the State Department, “while the tariff might not have caused the Depression, it certainly did not make it any better. It provoked a storm of foreign retaliatory measures… Such policies contributed to a drastic decline in international trade...
...also prompted two Harvard professors to threaten to leave, angered the unions involved in construction and custodial work, and left all involved in a state of clouded confusion about the reality of Harvard’s financial position. If the university expects those affected by this to accept the drastic cuts in so many sectors, they must provide better evidence that these cuts are explicitly necessary...