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...reduction will return staff levels to what they were before Harvard’s spending spree of recent years that focused on campus and faculty expansion. But Hatch and Lajoie said they have no way of knowing yet whether the merging of staff members will in fact save FAS money...
...This enormous system has been maintained on the cheap for the past decade with a budget that has stayed generally stagnant while the rest of the university’s expenditures have ballooned. According to English Department chair James T. Engell ’73, the staff increases in FAS over the last six years have been roughly equivalent to the size of the entire Harvard College Library staff. The director of the Harvard University Library system, Robert C. Darnton ’60, even said that the libraries are “being bled to death...
...FAS posted a 38 percent increase in unrestricted gift receipts available for immediate use—from $24 million to $33 million—over the past fiscal year ending June...
Selsby also recommends that students not update their own computers with Windows 7 before FAS IT can issue a statement of support for the online system...
...added that he would not recommend that Harvard switch its computers over immediately because it uses so many clients. Uchiyama also mentioned that Ubuntu, a competing operating system, is due to release a new version today, which gives FAS IT another option. Harvard currently uses Ubuntu on several Science Center computers...