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...means fewer students enrolled and less academic expansion into other fields. Tweaked House renovation plans mean slow progress in improving undergraduate education, no expansion of social spaces, and less overall satisfaction. Perhaps most importantly, department cuts not only affect the quality of the catering at faculty meetings but also impact the way our professors will be able to teach present and future students. For instance, the announcement yesterday that a great-books program within General Education would be delayed (perhaps forever) due to lack of funds is plainly unacceptable, since it is an issue that both senior faculty and students...
...Today, the impact of rural life on China’s cultural consciousness is dwindling. “The post-Zhang Yimou generation is much better equipped to show the dynamics of the urban texture, the urban lifestyle. They are very much in sync with global culture,” Wang says. “But everything comes with a price. That kind of larger cultural vision seems to have been lost...
...owned 45 Mt. Auburn, the impacts for students and the university community as a whole no doubt would be positive: Harvard would finally have a venue (albeit a small one) that could serve as an official social space for students. But, by the same token, these benefits would be small, especially given the space constraints—there are approximately 6,000 undergraduates at the College and room for only a few hundred in the Mt. Auburn Street property. Also, there is the thorny issue of the UC’s ties to the administration and the potential impact this...
...Stossel says he first learned about industry’s impact on the medical profession after joining the advisory board of Biogen Idec Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company...
...which she sleeps and eats. The Houses are vibrant intellectual and social communities, and it is concerning to see that they will now have fewer resources with which to enrich a student’s Harvard experience. A 25-percent drop in House spending will have a negative impact on both quality of life and on advising resources within the House—cuts that will go well beyond the loss of luxuries like free refreshments provided at masters’ open houses and study breaks. House masters have said that tutor meal plans may have to be reduced...