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...town hall meeting on Tuesday, which revealed details about an intended restructuring of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—Harvard’s largest school—was a definite step in the right direction for a university often criticized for its unwillingness to disclose financial information. Of course, more efforts and openness will be needed going forward if the administration is to avoid criticism of its difficult decisions...
...town hall meeting was a proactive start toward greater clarity, but it came nowhere near providing the amount of information, or the venue for open conversation, that the Harvard community deserves. While we appreciate the administration’s efforts at beginning to communicate more openly about the sacrifices Harvard must face, more directness is required if the future is be navigated successfully...
...allow greed and fear to divide us and erode our institution of higher learning,” the letter read. In recent weeks, SLAM, whose Web site sports the slogan “GREED is the new Crimson,” has left pamphlets in Annenberg Hall while chanting “No layoffs!” SLAM members have also joined union members in protesting layoffs of nine subcontracted custodians at Harvard Medical School. “What we really want to encourage was the kind of dialogue that other institutions like MIT have, where students have input into...
Undergraduate Council members remained in the dark about the effects of University-wide budget cuts on the College as well as the potential ramifications of these cuts for the January term session after yesterday’s town hall meeting led by Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith. Smith announced six working groups that would be charged with finding areas for cost-reductions throughout FAS. But according to Smith, it remains to be decided whether these committees would include students. Two committees, one dedicated to “student services” and the other...
...North-American Interfraternity Conference, says nearly every Greek organization in the nation now has an online presence. And these groups are using as many technological outlets as possible to improve the bonds of brother- and sisterhood. "You remember how, when we were in college, going to the dining hall, you had to search, there was always that moment of trepidation of who you were going to sit with?," he says. "Today they use Twitter: 'I'm going to lunch. Who's going to join...