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Uncle Sam may be knocking at Mass. Hall soon. Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced it would seek financial records from 400 tax-exempt American colleges and universities in a continuing review of their fiscal practices. Clearly, the government remains skeptical about the lack of operational transparency in educational institutions. The 33-page questionnaire—which Harvard may or may not be selected to complete—seeks to uncover universities policies regarding everything from endowment spending to executive compensation. The decision by the IRS to gather this information is not objectionable, as they undoubtedly have...
...resources with questions, and they may be reluctant to talk with authority figures about topics like sex that are socially taboo. With PCC counselors at study breaks, younger students will have a natural, social opportunity to ask their questions about sex and get real answers—not dining hall or locker room fiction. Harvard students should think about sex: In light of Trojan’s recent Sexual Health Report Card, the need for educational outreach seems especially important. The college would do well to recognize that positive, peer-to-peer education about mental health and eating concerns would...
...Although Kagan informed students last Friday that the new scheme would apply to students matriculating in the fall of 2009—that is, next year’s first-year class—the specifics of a possible transition are as of yet undetermined. A town hall meeting held by the dean last Thursday in order to gather student opinion on the time table for the new system revealed a diversity of opinion...
...Addressing a standing room only lecture hall, Kagan prefaced the meeting by saying that “whether we did the right thing or the wrong thing generally” in changing the grading system was not up for debate. But the dean’s initial comments did not prevent a small but vocal group of third-year students from expressing their opposition to the new grading policy...
...Despite the opposition from third-year students, the first-year students who made up the majority of students at the town hall meeting, had overwhelmingly positive reactions, according to Kagan...