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HARVARD LIKES TO consider itself at the forefront of academic exploration and scientific discovery. But while the ceilings crumble in Stoughton Hall, our biggest technological advance this year is a phone system that took two months to hook up. Harvard is so antiquated that we don't even have free access to standard word processing programs in our computer center...
...administration's rhetoric about bringing Harvard's information technology systems back into the forefront, even the most basic problems have been ignored. While there are plenty of computers available for use in the Science Center basement, no software is guaranteed, which puts many students at a disadvantage...
...faced with an administration which in the past has not had the quality of undergraduate life at the forefront of its attention. While other colleges fiscally support student groups, at Harvard, it is left up to the students not just to run the show but to rent the theater. Just about every student organization is funded by the UC, which in turn gets its money from students. Those students who don't pay term bill fees just wind up hurting the organizations they belong to. The U.C. is not only the centralized monetary fund for student groups...
Recently, Noble was at the forefront of a well-publicized campaign to establish a drug and alcohol rehab center primarily for gays and lesbians in the city...
...everyone is enamored of Alexander's record as an education Governor. "He brought education to the forefront as a topic at everyone's kitchen table," concedes Relzie Payton, president of the Tennessee Education Association, the state teachers' union. But Alexander was also a tireless self-promoter, she argues, whose follow-through was less impressive than his goals. Alexander's educational efforts in Tennessee have met with mixed success, and, Payton adds, "Choice was mentioned, if at all, in passing while he was Governor...