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...Finale’s 4-inch cake (Who cares that it’s bite-sized? It’s not like she’ll finish it anyway) $12.00. 2) For your fellow Owl member: a beer belt from Newbury Comics, $14.99. 3) For your ex: a $15.00 gift certificate to About Hair (a two-for-one special, a bad haircut, and guaranteed uneasiness). 4) For your friend at Boston University: “How to Transfer to the College of Your Choice” from the Harvard Book Store, $12.95. 5) For that nerdy perv in your entryway...
...planning a first-ever Women’s Week. Attendees like Lisandra S. Costiner ’07 said they hoped to see more events like the fair. “Keep them coming,” she said. The event also dispensed a range of freebies, including $20 gift certificates to IHOP and Border Caf?...
Although Harvard College’s decision to reimburse student groups for the “gift tax” is a welcome development, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) refusal to rescind the tax or lend formal support to the College’s reimbursement is deeply troubling. The tax is unfair and, contrary to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles’ justification for his action, could be easily rolled back. Knowles should reverse course on the gift tax, which is symptomatic of the apathy toward student life that seems to have gripped University...
...subunit of FAS—including undergraduate student groups—can open gift accounts that FAS administers. Alumni can make tax deductible donations directly to them, and the Harvard Management Company manages the funds as if they were part of the rest of Harvard’s endowment. For student groups, the accounts have the added benefit of providing donors with the security of knowing that the groups can only withdraw from the accounts for specific purposes. The gift tax is a levy on any withdrawal that an FAS subunit makes from its own gift account. Without prior notice...
...announcement of the tax. Donors who intended for all of their money to go to a student group would have had portions of their money siphoned off by FAS. Although the University does not guarantee that all the money will go to a group when it receives a gift, this practice is disingenuous...