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...position of assistant to the Allston Burr Resident Dean may face significant “restructuring” as House Masters grapple with the administration’s mandate to trim next year’s House budgets by 25 percent. According to House administrators, who spoke to The Crimson on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, the College administration is currently considering two proposals, both of which would scale back the position. One option is to consolidate the responsibilities of the 12 resident dean assistants, requiring one assistant to manage two or three Houses. The other...
...responsibilities of her replacement would probably differ from her own, stressing the new relevance of finance in administrative duties. “The whole portfolio has to be reshaped around that very prominent element,” Herschbach said. Herschbach began working at Harvard in 1981 as the Master of Currier House. Since then, she has served as Registrar of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and assistant dean and director of special programs, associate dean for administration and finance, and associate dean for academic programs at the College. Recently, Herschbach said she has been involved with creating the Program...
...placing a one-year moratorium on new real estate purchases in the neighborhood—but not before it had already signed an agreement to lease and purchase another piece of property near its Science Complex construction site. According to University spokeswoman Lauren M. Marshall, Harvard will be master leasing the property at 65-79 Seattle St. in Brighton for 10 years, after which Harvard will purchase the parcel unless the owner elects to sell it to the University sooner. She declined to comment on the costs of the lease agreement and said that she did not have figures...
Jillian Michaels, the hard-core personal trainer from NBC's The Biggest Loser, spent her adolescence overweight and unhappy. Enrolling in a martial arts class helped her shed the pounds and inspired her to dedicate her life to helping others lose weight. In her new book, Master Your Metabolism, she writes that the key to weight loss is balancing your hormones. As season seven of the show comes to an end this week, Michaels talks to TIME about why she recently called The Biggest Loser contestants "half dead," how much exercise the average person really needs and what changes...
...there is no mistaking that the essential landscape of the old master's life has changed. Police officers, who used to be the objects of rage and ridicule, are now necessary public servants: "Mr. Policeman, can you help me find my gal?/ Last time I saw her was at the Magnolia Hotel." Which raises the question: Did she wander off in an Alzheimic haze, or did Bob? After all, he now mourns that his "forgetful heart/ lost your power of recall...