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...council should be spending its money. This is especially so because of the large new infusion of money into the council’s accounts. But no one benefits from making the discussion on the matter less than straightforward, and that is the major problem with how Friday??s column was presented. If the council is going to mature in its own abilities and in students’ estimations, then members must refrain from purposefully distorting the debate...
...Friday??s column would have us believe that House Committees (HoCos) and student groups were in serious danger of not getting funded. That is just plain misleading. The council has constitutional guarantees against that, and enough money to live up to the commitment. Fully 70 percent of all council money must go to student groups via the grant system. And there is a strong precedent for allocating at least 20 thousand dollars to the HoCos every semester. And the recent trend has been to increase the funding going to these groups. Last year, student groups and HoCos...
...years after losing two top professors to Princeton, Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department lost another duo of high-profile professors to Stanford on Friday??and University President Lawrence H. Summers is once again at the center of the controversy...
...council unanimously passed a third bill at Friday??s meeting authorizing at least two free advanced movie screenings, sponsored by Alloy Marketing and Promotions, in October at Loews Theatre. The first two movies planned are Friday Night Lights and Alfie...
...others, the Harvard experience seems quite different. As John Rockwell put it, writing in last Friday??s New York Times, “If Harvard still deserves its image for snobbery now, it’s a different kind of snobbery, the snobbery of a perhaps excessively self-aware meritocracy.” Moreover, with its hefty workloads and half-hearted emphasis on anything other than academics, the College not only acknowledges the cutthroat nature of Harvard today, it encourages...