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...Having only two students on the committee is limitory,” Slade said. “The whole purpose of having these House meetings is in order to hear more from students. You need to understand the culture of sexual harassment on campus before you can attempt to fix the problem...
These problems are only the latest episode in the fitful computerization of Harvard’s bureaucracy. Nevertheless, the University’s Office of Human Resources and the Student Employment Office (SEO) should have made a better effort to fix these problems and lessen the burden on students who have had to put off purchasing books or paying bills. The SEO and the department of human resources have begun to address the problems, but these efforts are both too weak and too late...
...Instead of trading blame, the software vendor and the administration need to sit down and figure out how to make the system work. For students on a tight budget, not getting paid can be a serious problem. We hope the University keeps this in mind as it scrambles to fix the payroll mess...
Student and faculty computers can also be especially vulnerable because they often do not keep their computers up-to-date with patches that fix vulnerabilities in various types of existing software...
These pension issues are a serious concern to investors. Short of mass firings, there are two ways for a company to reduce its pension shortfall: set more money aside or earn higher returns on its investments. Forget the second fix; companies already assume rates of return that are plain out of touch. According to a UBS Warburg study, 4 out of 5 companies project average annual returns of 9% or more--returns that are highly unlikely, with pension managers now investing about 40% of assets in bonds. Companies are more likely to lower their expectations, as Citigroup...