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...reductions remain in the early stages, making any discussions of a timeline premature. “The persistent rumors out there [are] based on the mythology that the University is one big coordinated entity and that some Harvard office is the keeper of the list of people to be laid off,” said Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, the University’s largest union. “Our experience is that both of those impressions are blatantly wrong.” He added that schools and departments around the University...
...this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office and staff should be dedicated to J-Term planning, and administrators and members of the committee say they have long recognized that these logistical questions had to be answered before provisions could be laid, the administration did not launch an effort to identify which resources would be necessary to implement programming until very recently.Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay M. Harris says that one early roadblock to incorporating courses during this period was identifying faculty members who would be willing to teach during J-Term...
...Hyman said earlier this spring that the Strategic Infrastructure Fund, as the tax is now known, has little, if any, discretionary money remaining after subtracting funds pledged for interest payments and expenditures.A DOSE OF REALITYThis year, the projected 30 percent hit to Harvard’s endowment has suddenly laid bare the risks inherent in the University’s aggressive capital financing.Harvard is now aiming to halve its spending in capital projects—currently estimated at $1 billion a year over the next three to four years, with an additional $3 billion in debt, according to Moody?...
...began to see SLAM as refreshing—rather than nauseating—a few days after I wrote a somewhat-incendiary editorial piece calling for specific administrators to be laid off to help deal with the fiscal crisis. Though I expected the piece to be controversial, I didn’t expect the dozens of e-mails praising me for being “ballsy,” “brave,” and even “courageous...
...sounds like the plot of a bad movie. A young British woman goes on holiday to Laos, a landlocked Southeast Asian nation that's a favorite of backpackers enchanted by its laid-back vibe and vibrant Buddhist culture. But she lands in jail on drug-smuggling charges that could result in execution. Then events take a melodramatic turn: the woman becomes pregnant while in jail - and a Laotian state newspaper claims she impregnated herself with semen from a fellow prisoner to escape the death penalty, since local law precludes putting expectant mothers in front of a firing squad...