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...College administrators’ priorities on student space have changed. But they remain no less foolish.After May 27 of this year, roughly 20 of Harvard’s most important student groups will leave their offices in Yard basements for newly-assigned space in the Quad. Following plans overseen by Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, the College will then renovate the Yard basements to house its own hand-picked organizations and provide “social space” for freshmen.This plan is rotten because it makes University Hall the sole arbiter of Yard space...
...three years at the helm, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has overseen a dramatic reorganization of the College administration that has left one longtime professor saying, “I hardly know anyone in University Hall nowadays...
...mail also addresses the social difficulties of some students overseen by the proctor, especially those hailing from foreign cultures...
...enough, the latest and perhaps most chilling sign that Iraq is descending further into butchery - and quite possibly civil war. But almost as disturbing is the growing evidence that the massacres and others like it are being tolerated and even abetted by Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police forces, overseen by Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr. On his watch, sectarian militias have swelled the ranks of the police units and, Sunnis charge, used their positions to carry out revenge killings against Sunnis. While allowing an Iranian-trained militia to take over the ministry, critics say, Jabr has authorized...
...thing that seems sure to improve is levee maintenance. For decades, the levee system was overseen by a multitude of local boards that were packed with political appointees, few of them experts in flood control. By the time Katrina arrived, the boards had a reputation for being more effective at handing out sweetheart contracts than at maintaining levees. Last month a special session of the state legislature succeeded in consolidating the boards into two bodies (one for each bank of the Mississippi) consisting of engineers and other specialists. The consolidation, which must still be approved by voters in September...