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...combat this problem, even as our peer institutions have embarked on ambitious housing projects such as Princeton’s construction of the $100 million Whitman College and Yale’s extensive renovation of its 12 residential colleges. But hope is on the way. Last week, University Hall announced that Harvard would embark on a $1 billion, 15-year renovation of its undergraduate living space, the largest such project in its history. The endeavor will involve a complete overhaul of the interior of each of the 12 houses while preserving their historically significant facades, and will be guided...
Elizabeth Mora, a 10-year Mass. Hall veteran who currently oversees Harvard’s budget and financial planning, will step down as vice president for finance in May, the University announced yesterday. In its press release, the University notably omitted any reason for Mora’s resignation, which will take place in mid-May, rather than on July 1, when administrative changeovers often occur. Dan Shore, who is now director of budgets and financial planning, will replace Mora in an interim capacity. University spokesman John D. Longbrake said that Shore would only serve as “acting...
...PROFESSOR It’s Monday afternoon and jazz fusion is blaring as students amble into a Science Center lecture hall to attend back to Psychology. 1. They settle towards the front of the the room. A poster from an old science fiction movie is projected on the left side of the lecture hall. On the right, the students see a schedule for the day’s lecture. Suddenly, Porky Pig interrupts the music: “That’s allllllll folks!” Gilbert takes the stage. “There are a lot of things...
Blaming American economic woes on a crisis of confidence rather than a shortage of liquidity, business magnate Sam Zell presented a confident view of the nation’s financial strength to the Harvard community yesterday at a talk at Gund Hall. Zell, a billionaire who was ranked #52 on the most recent list of richest Americans by Forbes magazine, came to Cambridge at the invitation of the Real Estate Academic Initiative, a campus faculty group. The Chicago native expressed disappointment with the “demagogic” economic language of Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...
...what may well be a preview of the approach he takes in the debate, Obama responded to the elitist charge at a town hall for veterans earlier this week by turning the accusation around. "I am amused by this notion of elitist given that - when you are raised by single mom, when you are on food stamps for a while when you're growing up, you went to school on scholarship," Obama said "So when someone makes that argument, particularly when I've spent my entire life working with workers in low-income communities to try to make peoples lives...