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...Number of people convicted of murder in the U.S. who were sentenced to death last year, the lowest total since...
...Harvard alumni who donate to the College has declined steadily since 2001 and hit a 16-year low last fiscal year, according to data provided by the University.That figure, known as the “participation rate,” now stands at 40 percent—the lowest rate since 1989. The rate fluctuated throughout the 1990s, peaking most recently in 2001 when it reached 48 percent.Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Donella M. Rapier said Harvard has compared its numbers to eight peer institutions, and participation rates have recently declined at four. Three schools have maintained constant...
...facilities, or it can be earmarked especially for financial aid. Last year, student activists asked classmates to withhold their donations until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. Harvard eventually did sell the shares. But Senior Gift raised its lowest total since 1998, and many believe the efforts of the activist group, Senior Gift Plus, were responsible. Washington said he’s confident that the controversy is not affecting seniors’ participation this year. “I have not talked to a single person who has said...
...spokesman Joe Wrinn declined to comment on the specifics of proposals on the table.SEIU’s current contract arose in the aftermath of a 2001 Mass. Hall sit-in by students. A committee convened after the takeover called for substantial wage hikes for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees and reopened the University’s existing SEIU contract.If that contract expires tonight with no new agreement, all previously negotiated terms between the janitors and the University will still remain in place, Wrinn said.Representatives of SEIU would not comment on the likelihood of a strike, but said...
DIED. K.R. NARAYANAN, 85, India's first "untouchable" President; in New Delhi. A member of the Dalits, the group of Hindus on the lowest rung of the brutal 3,000-year caste system, he used his post to vocally rebuke the "caste-ism" that deemed his people unclean...