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...Committee on College Life (CCL) revisited the issue of the rapidly increasing number of student groups at its monthly meeting yesterday. Some committee members said that the limited resources available for student groups??such as Undergraduate Council (UC) grant money, space for meetings, and kiosk space to post flyers—have been stretched thin as a result of the increase. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said after the meeting that the rate at which the number of student groups grows “seems to be exponential” and that yesterday...
...friends start to more and more resemble an episode of Survivor, I find myself reflecting on my own experience with blocking last year. For many in the class of 2009, it’s become increasingly obvious that the trouble we upperclassmen warned of—about forming blocking groups??has not been so greatly exaggerated as they thought. The unnatural requirement of selecting your seven “best” friends out of a group that, in all likelihood, far exceeds that number, leads to all sorts of plots, plans, and alliances, turning previously normal people...
Another GSD professor who is a supporter of Altshuler said last night that the discussion surrounding the dean’s leadership has been confined to “individuals and small groups?? within the faculty...
...party fund.” Troublingly, anecdotal reports of widespread abuse indicate that this might not be the best measure of their success. Hosts failing to publicize their parties, restricting their guest lists, and misrepresenting themselves to obtain funding for their student groups?? get-togethers, leave us worried that public student funds are being misallocated. Because there are regularly more applicants for these grants than grants available, the UC should act on the inclinations of its leadership to make these parties more accountable to, and in service of, its entire constituency; that means, most significantly, that...
...numbers for increasing incidents of spyware problems at Harvard. But she noted that “in the last four or five years, the problem has definitely gotten worse.” Palfrey sees projects like StopBadware—which gives power to individual citizens rather than formal government groups??as the future of maintaining law and order on the Web. He said legislation monitoring the Internet is rare. “And even when you have a law, it’s hard to enforce because of cross-border problems.” Palfrey added...