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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled yesterday to uphold the decision of a lower-court judge to grant a retrial in the high-profile case of Alexander Pring-Wilson, a former Harvard graduate student who was convicted in 2004 of fatally stabbing a Cambridge teenager...
...order to remedy the challenges of insufficient capital, Sebastian turned to the Harvard Campus Grant system to supplement the more conventional avenue of advertisements. The common grant application allows student groups to apply for direct grants from various departments of the University, each affiliated with a particular mission, as well as from the Undergraduate Council. But after weathering the complicated and stressful application process, Sebastian met another financial pitfall when grant after grant was returned with the seal of rejection...
...financial alternatives offered by the University are scant. Funds are limited, and when operating under a system of grants with finite resources, it is inevitable that certain groups will be left out. Associate Dean of Student Life and Activities Judith H. Kidd explains the limitations of the Grant system...
...Finance Committee Chair of the Undergraduate Council and Crimson editor Alexander N. Li ’08 sympathizes with the plight of the Mock Trial Team, but insists that the UC is at the end of its tether, thus putting Mock Trial outside of the direct criteria for UC grant funding...
Either way, FiCom will need to make tougher decisions about which events it funds. Lori M. Adelman ’08, a former chair of FiCom, has argued in this paper that when the UC looks at a grant, it is “trying hard not to make value judgments about the content of the event itself.” Given the limits on the grants fund, however, it is absurd for FiCom to avoid evaluating the events that it spends student money on—FiCom’s primary job, after all, is to determine...