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...HoCos were smaller, it made more sense to fund Dudley House at half the level of the other Houses. But now that HoCos’ funding is no longer supplemented by House dues—and their UC allocations are so much higher—the tradition of granting Dudley House half of the other Houses’ share ought to end. The UC’s decision to grant Dudley House $2,250—half of what other undergraduate houses are given—is financially irresponsible and logically nonsensical...
Dudley’s grant is intended to HoCo-type events for the House, such as special dinners and parties. However, given that only 57 undergraduates are affiliated with Dudley (and only 32 live in the Dudley Cooperative House), the amount allocated per Dudley student is wildly out of proportion to the amount allocated per student in the residential Houses. It should receive an amount of money roughly proportionate to the amount allocated per student to other Houses, multiplied by the number of students affiliated with Dudley. Since the 12 Houses receive about $11 per student per semester, Dudley should...
Take, for example, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), the celebrated humanitarian foundation that aims to combat poverty and stem the catastrophic tide of the African AIDS epidemic. According to a recent Boston Globe article, CARE lost a $50 million contract for combating AIDS, as government opted to grant $200 million to faith-based programs, which will advocate the divinely inspired “abstinence-only” method of disease control, after heavy public pressure from evangelical Christians...
...created would “value the bedrock principles of pluralism, nondiscrimination, evenhandedness, and neutrality,” an essential safeguard against the sort of theocratic repression the government condemns in the Middle East. Except that didn’t work out, either: David Kuo cites one OFBCI grant analyst who admitted, “When I saw one of those non-Christian groups on the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...
Harvard’s senior director of community relations, Mary Power, however, said the 110-year-old tree’s decay began long before the University made plans on Grant Street...