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Despite the many hours he has spent in front of the rent board. Walsh says he has discovered no successful formula for dealing with the board members. "What strategy could you use' You've prepared your client psychologically as well as legally for what will happen. But there's nothing you can do except tell him that it's a kangaroo court and push and push and push to get your point of view across to board members...
Finally, the College should reexamine its overall method of housing assignment. Some contend that the formula used to calculate housing space favors the River Houses by failing to consider that those Houses usually have living rooms while Quad suites often do not. Others are upset because they deliberately opted for Quad houses to get singles, and found themselves living in either reconstituted common rooms or what officials politely call "ec-doubles"--single rooms into which two students have been squeezed. And we find it dismaying that many houses hold rooms vacant for months on end for "faculty guests," while undergraduates...
Once upon a time, everybody knew which professors used numbers in their research and which professors used words. The natural scientists conducted quantitative research: they gathered data, they made tables and graphs, they made graphs and tables, and when they were through, they had a new empirical formula...
Harvard's responsibility as a corporate shareholder has become a controversial campus issue over the past decade and has often been a source of student unrest. Harvard's investments in those companies with controversial dealings in Angola and South Africa, in those which produce infant formula and nuclear weapons, and in those which refuse to disclose information on safety or hiring practices have all interested many members of the University community...
Indeed on a wide variety of issues--corporate governance, infant formula, and many other less publicized debates--the ACSR and the Corporation have generally agreed...