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...When the class of 1958 was in its junior year, the College launched the “Program for Harvard College”—called the College’s “most ambitious fund-raising campaign ever.” The campaign collected $82.5 million in the name of education reform, but this concentrated drive was more than just financial...
...student council released a 22-page report on the tutorial system at Harvard, calling for the creation of an interdepartmental faculty committee to provide “coherent overall direction” for the tutorial program, as well as a “substantial increase in Tutorial fund.” In an unconditional criticism of the system, the report asserted that “student opinion seems unanimous on its inadequacy...
Richard W. Weitz ’83, who won a 1983 Hoopes Prize for his senior thesis on different theories as to why the Cold War arose, used the prize money to help fund his continued studies in International Relations. Weitz now works for the Hudson Institute, a public policy research center that focuses on international affairs...
...tension surrounding financial independence that dominated the inaugural Council remains a central issue 25 years later. In the fall of 2003, the UC created its party fund program to cover the costs of some private parties each weekend, including the reimbursement of alcohol purchases. But this past October, interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam sparked another UC funds controversy by announcing that the party grants must...
...Others suggested that the lobbyist problem will make fund raising even harder and has slowed the efforts to scale McCain's lean, insurgent campaign to the size he and his party will need to win in the fall. Back in 2004, Bush built a massive top-down hierarchy that brought a corporate efficiency to politics. The McCain model, by contrast, has been designed to reflect McCain's insurgent personality. While the Bush campaign channeled all decision-making through its northern Virginia headquarters, the McCain campaign has established a decentralized network of 11 "regional campaign managers," who will separately direct much...