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Lewis has been recently and frequently wining and dining the obligatory Harvard donors, in search of funds for a major overhaul that could transform the MAC into what it should be—a masterfully designed, 24-hour accessible, recreational fitness facility and central home of student office space. The MAC is named for Peter L. Malkin ’55 (giver of a paltry $4 million in 1985 for the building’s last major facelift) and anyone who has their name on a building will not want it taken off. I bet you a draft...
...fears. In 1982 the party stoked anxiety about Social Security reform and picked up 26 seats in the House; in 1986 the same issue toppled the G.O.P. majority that Ronald Reagan had swept into the Senate. And in 1995 Bill Clinton faced down Newt Gingrich and his plan to overhaul Medicare; two government shutdowns and one year later, the issue nearly put the House Republicans back in the minority...
Griffin began working for PBH as a custodian about 10 years ago, left briefly and then was asked to come back seven years ago after the public service overhaul at the College—when a more rigorous driver-training program was implemented. “I was supposed to work four hours a week giving the kids a driving test,” he says. “But they need to know so much more than you can teach them in a five-minute intro before the test.” The Harvard insurance office, which sees that...
Eliminating the cyclotron is part of a larger overhaul Harvard is planning for science buildings around Oxford St. and Divinity Ave. The University promises the end result someday will be more research facilities, more grass and less asphalt...
...solve the greater problem of the Core curriculum. However, they also myopically endorse, out of pure dislike for the current Core program, this proposed step of the CUE to reduce required Core classes. The staff misunderstands the consequence of both this proposed change and their ultimate goal, an overhaul of the Core curriculum. With either action, students would presumably not take those classes most removed from their concentration and instead only take electives pertaining to their known interests. By failing to recognize that any reduction in the number of required Core classes would erode the basis of a liberal arts...