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...time for students to demand more from the CEB. First, the CEB should recommit itself to broadly appealing, campus-wide programming; second CEB members should plan major events far enough in advance to ensure that all potential logistical failures can be dealt with in a way that still ensures maximum participation in the event. The CEB has enormous potential to create unity and identity among Harvard’s undergraduates; it is a shame to see that potential expended on the rather small population of students who happen to know the lyrics to Moulin Rouge.Michael J. Robin...
...primary reason for the exponential increases in tuition and fees, is that federal and state funding of higher education has slowly dwindled over time. For example, twenty years ago federal Pell grants would cover a majority of costs at a four-year public institution. Now, at the maximum level allowed by law, a yearly Pell grant could cover about one third of a year’s costs at the same institution. Likewise state funding has dropped significantly. State funding covered about half of the cost of tuition in 1980; as of 2000 that number had been...
...Alem?n's self-confidence is stroked by a posse of yes-men who refer to him as their "maximum leader," but his insurance is rooted in a secretive power-sharing pact he forged in 2001 with the nation's leading powerbroker, President Daniel Ortega, in which the leaders agreed to divvy up power in state institutions...
...Still, Chiquita continued to make monthly payments to the AUC until February 2004, even after disclosing the situation to the Justice Department. The Justice Department proposed a settlement under which the company would pay a fine of $25 million - one quarter of the maximum criminal fine that would have applied had the company been found guilty in court...
While the previous $4,700 grant should be taken into consideration, it alone is not a sufficient reason for the UC to categorically deny all HoCo requests for additional funding. The upfront block grants are meant to give each HoCo maximum flexibility in planning events for their Houses to build House community. But if HoCos propose to sponsor additional events, particularly events aimed at the student body as a whole, they should be considered the same as any other student group and their applications should be judged its merit...