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...light of the administration’s decision, we strongly urge University Hall to take necessary steps to minimize the negative effects of canceling a “January Experience.” One important step would be for the deans to rigorously follow up on their promise to “work with students to identify interesting opportunities and help them make the connections to pursue them.” This would entail providing guidance and sources of funding much like the university does for summer vacation. Another important step would be clarifying and loosening criteria for students wishing...
...Battell Chapel recently lost its affiliation with the United Church of Christ and reaffirmed its ecumenical role. University Chapel at Princeton similarly offers ecumenical services on Sundays. Dartmouth’s Rollins Chapel is an explicitly interfaith space, with a Muslim prayer room off the main transept. Earl Hall at Columbia is more a center for community service and houses the Office of the University Chaplain, which is also explicitly interfaith. Any one of these alternatives would be better than Harvard’s status...
...work at Harvard Medical School. Although their layoffs were effective last Friday, the custodians showed up for their normal shifts, ready to work, as part of staged protest.More than 25 Harvard undergraduates, law students, medical students, and union members escorted the workers through the back entrance to Gordon Hall where they were met by security and administrators who told the protestors that they had three to four minutes to exit the building.“We’re from American Cleaning, and we want to work,” custodial workers told an administrator sitting behind a sign...
...pleased to see such a great number of student concerns being tackled at one time. This success may be due to the student-heavy makeup of the Planning Committee. Of its five subcommittees, two were made up entirely of UC-vetted students. University Hall made the right decision in structuring the process to include such significant student involvement, and we urge that student involvement be a priority as renewal plans proceed...
...seat of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires and a city that bridges Europe and Asia - to full effect. He toured the historic Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia (a church converted into a mosque and now a museum), met with religious leaders of all faiths and held a town-hall meeting with 100 university students. He also reiterated his commitment to a two-state solution in the Middle East, despite the potential roadblocks posed by the new Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu. "Peace in the Middle East is possible," he told students, adding that both sides would need to make...