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...committees of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) march to the beat of a very, very slow drummer. As shopping period races by, the Core Standing Committee and the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) have failed to keep pace, leaving students to suffer in the confusion of mixed tempos. Despite the promise that accompanied announcements of a secondary fields program and Humanities General Education courses, the disorganized implementation of curricular reform has made this shopping period a particularly chaotic...
...percent in the 2009 fiscal year, and this year’s tax is retroactive to July 1. Although this tax assessment had been previously applied to other University gift funds, there was no reason given for the sudden inclusion of all Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) accounts, which includes undergraduate student groups’ accounts. At the moment, the University’s new tax is simply bewildering, but it becomes ever more egregious as days pass without explanation. Perhaps the College has a worthy justification for the sudden levy, but without a timely clarification as to where...
...You’re telling me that one summer you can’t close down Lowell or Eliot house and spray the entire building?” he said. But Zachary M. Gringo ’99, who is Associate Director of Residential Operations for FAS, wrote in an e-mail that the Houses are not fumigated to avoid exposing any residents to pesticides. “Even when students are not in the building, we often have tutors and other House affiliates in residence, and we don’t want them to be exposed to airborne pesticides...
Erin C. Nettifee, the supervisor of residential computing for FAS, said that it was unclear why the river Houses in particular were experiencing slower wireless connectivity...
Goel said he hopes a backup to the FAS network will arrive soon...