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...soon-to-be interim president of Harvard, Derek C. Bok leads an institution far wealthier than it was 15 years ago, when his previous term ended. In those intervening years, this growth in the endowment has been accompanied by constant increases in tuition, student debt (especially in professional schools), and an unwelcome shift in the values expressed in the name of the University. As America has drifted into the sway of the money culture, so has Harvard...
...Harvard is scheduled to announce its tuition for 2006-07. Last year, the endowment rose by roughly $2.5 billion. Given this, will Harvard once again add to the financial burdens on students and their families? If any tuition increase is in fact announced, we urge Bok to intervene, as interim president, to postpone it, pending an inquiry into whether part of the University’s recent growth in wealth could be used to offset the need for more tuition...
...website redesign, simple steps can be taken to maximize the use of what is already in place. We do hope to see the fruits of a long-promised website overhaul in the near future, and it appears this administration is committed to seeing this initiative through, but in the interim, basic information voids should be filled...
...applaud the UC for their efforts thus far to enhance the website and hope that these steps are indicative of pending progress. However, in the interim, the website needs to be updated to the level of functionality and become more than outdated rosters and dead links...
...will be ready to assume a strong presence on campus when he returns around the beginning of next month. David B. Fithian, the secretary of the Faculty, said he that the incoming interim president would have a new office in the Yard...