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...President-elect Drew G. Faust has so far stolen the show. Flying under the radar, however, is an administrative search that will arguably have a greater direct impact on the students of Harvard College—the search for the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Given the importance of this position, we hope that Faust, who will select the new dean, will give students an official voice. The dean of the Faculty has broad powers that affect both student life and education. The dean holds the critical power of the purse over the College?...
...small electrical fire in the server room of the Science Center caused an evacuation of the building and a shutdown of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) servers last Friday. At approximately 4:05 p.m., a fire alarm went off in the Science Center, and the building was quickly evacuated. Electrical power was cut to the server room after an electrical short circuit caused a fire in the power supply unit, FAS Computer Services spokeswoman Elizabeth Hess said in a statement sent via e-mail. Hess could not be reached for comment over the weekend. The fire caused disruption...
...reason why the Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) board fee has not been raised to accommodate dining beyond 7:30 p.m. is as follows: The tuition that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) sets for an undergraduate education is tracked very closely relative to Harvard’s peer institutions to ensure that Harvard’s does not increase significantly more than any other institution in a given year. Harvard works very deliberately to ensure that its tuition is not the most expensive of the Ivy League schools. For this reason, a tuition increase in any form...
Like applying makeup to a corpse, the recent reforms to Harvard’s advising system have done little but cast a false complexion of vitality onto a system that should have been buried long ago. And now, with the recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announcement of a revised advising program to provide academic counseling for first-semester sophomores—concentration choice does not have to be made until then, thanks to the curricular review—the burden of advising undecided sophomores has been foisted on already-overworked House resident tutors...
...that they often go unused. These deficiencies are particularly frustrating when considered in the light of robust, student-friendly portals at other schools, like the highly successful yalestation.org. Yet while it seems obvious that my.harvard needs at least a facelift, the staff of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) IT department has also shown reticence toward the prospect of cutting-edge “Web 2.0” opportunities for information gathering, instead touting my.harvard’s existing customization capabilities, which are scant. Indeed, FAS IT seems to be headed in the other direction...