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...What students equated with secretive decision-making over the last year culminated in the town-hall meetings that followed the announcement of sweeping Faculty of Arts of Sciences budget cuts last month...
...When she was first appointed Dean in March 2008, Hammonds said in an interview with The Harvard University Gazette that she was cognizant of “many challenges facing the College.” But in multiple interviews with The Crimson over the last month, the Dean’s colleagues in University Hall say that she, like them, never anticipated the slew of obstacles to face the College administration this year: an unprecedented budget crisis, uncertain House Renewal, and traumatic events in the student population, including four undergraduate deaths and a shooting in Kirkland House last month...
...Jaeger, then, a patient respect for the administration isn’t just a flavor-of-the-month strategy: it’s a proven method, with the weight of decades behind it. It’s the reason why HUCTW has survived and grown to the size it has: approximately 4,800 strong, with staffers hailing from every niche of the University. It is, in short, one of the core missions of the union. “There are two things we care a lot about: one is to be strong advocates for the interest of the staff...
...tough times, Jaeger hasn’t discarded his conviction that relationships with administrators are a far more powerful tool than “shouting through the windows.” He was struck by some of the parallels between the cutbacks unveiled on the FAS Web site last month and a few of the union’s suggestions in their public letters. For example, in a December letter, the union leadership called for the closing of leased commercial spaces and slashing of catering budgets—both of which will be implemented next year...
...address cell phone reception problems in the Quad has agreed with AT&T to install a temporary and later a permanent antenna beginning as early as August, pending approval from the City of Cambridge. The approval process for a permanent antenna could be completed in six to nine months, and the antenna would be placed on top of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, said Undergraduate Council representative George J.J. Hayward ’11, who said he has worked for several months to improve cell phone reception in the Quad. Harvard administrators have concluded that installing an antenna would...