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...billion this year, a jump of about 5.3% from last year. However, experts caution that budget increases on this scale can't last in the economic downturn. "If one follows the announcements of the government, it looks as if universities should not suffer so much," says Dr. Paul Flather, head of the Europaeum, a U.K.-based association of 10 European universities. "But in practice, talking to professors and our colleagues there, the picture doesn't look so healthy...
...funding crisis in European higher education is unlikely to improve anytime soon. "There's quite a lot of anxiety in the system," Flather says, cautioning that short-term cuts will have long-lasting effects on universities. Undermining these "engines of democracy," he adds, could end up being more costly than people think - not in terms of dollars and cents, but in the future well-being of European societies. "We're part of the future, we're part of recovery," he says...
...spirit of liberalism, students who did decide to join wanted to widen the scope of membership to include a greater number and range of people. Newell Flather '61, who served on the selection committee as vice president of the Pudding, says the application process in the early 1960s was simple. When the committee went over applications, they established a rule: "If someone on the committee knew them and liked them, they would be elected. If someone of the committee didn't like them, they would not be elected unless there was a groundswell of support...
...Flather, who has supported the club for 40 years, says the recent incarnations of the Pudding have not mirrored his remembrances. "It doesn't strike me as as nice a place as when I was there. It does not seem as well maintained," he notes. "It's a chopped up institution. It doesn't have the feel that it's completely in the hands of the undergraduates." With alcohol laws creating legal problems for the club and financial issues weighing it down, graduates had no choice but to get involved...
...today. To those who complain of elitism, the change may be positive. But in losing the Pudding, Harvard is also losing one of the oldest living pieces of its history. "If you described it to someone from another country, it would seem to have no place," says Flather. "In many ways, the Pudding is an anachronism, but a celebrated...