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...fund generally comes from alumni and passes to designated student groups. While the tax was set at five percent this year, it will increase to 15 percent within the next three years. The Undergraduate Council (UC) estimates that the tax will add nearly $20,000 to the coffers of FAS, which faces a projected $75 million operating deficit...
...labor and management representatives are looking into this entire layoff process,” he said. He said although he could not comment on the employees’ charges, the University takes allegations of discrimination and racism “very seriously.” “FAS Human Resources will vigorously investigate any complaints or allegations of discrimination it receives, and will take appropriate actions,” he wrote in an e-mail. It’s possible, though, that the employees’ positions might not be secure in the long run. In an e-mail...
...Mather Tower from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon. Service in Winthrop’s Gore Hall was out for most of Saturday, and was interrupted again yesterday. Eleven Riverview dorms in Winthrop also had spotty Internet access over the weekend, according to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Computer Services’ Web site. “The cause of the interruptions in both Mather and Winthrop were hardware failure for network devices in both areas,” Supervisor of Residential Computing for FAS Computer Services Erin Nettifee wrote in an e-mail. The specific cause...
...were at the meeting, Knowles said that though he sympathizes with the UC’s arguments, the UC needs to take up the issue with Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71. “I think that student group leaders felt that the FAS dean was not taking full responsibility for the tax being imposed,” said Petersen after the meeting...
Second, and perhaps more importantly, scholars with an interdisciplinary focus, who do not fall neatly into one department or another (or even one school or another), are often neglected. Within FAS, Summers and former Dean William C. Kirby began to address this by creating divisional deans to oversee tenure offers for related groups of departments. This is a step in the right direction, but Harvard must redouble its efforts to compensate for structural problems that repel interdisciplinary scholars. Harvard’s stubbornly rigid system of departments and schools should not prevent the University from conducting research in important interdisciplinary...