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Just as we hope more people consider the tutoring service, we also urge students to think about becoming tutors themselves. Some students may stay away from doing so because they consider themselves unqualified for the job. However, sometimes the best tutors are those who paid the best attention, or even struggled themselves, and can empathize with their pupils. To be a good tutor, one does not need to have aced a class. We hope that the price increases ensure the continued financial health of the program, encouraging more participants in the future...
...recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health benefits along with their continued paychecks, cutting the hours of people...
...that students have returned to campus, it is essential that we not forget the challenges facing the lowest-paid members of our community. Students must remain vigilant of the fact that the university seems to deliberately deceive us on issues involving budget cuts. It is apparent that administrators were merely waiting for students to leave campus before beginning layoffs. Although I had been warned of this, I still felt deceived by leaders of my university, who, weeks before, had shooed away concerns about layoffs by insisting that nothing had been decided and that we need not continue to pester them...
...save $52 for every ton we are able to recycle instead of discard as trash,” Gogan said. “So we do have to pay for it, but it is less than we would have paid to get it land-filled...
...address to students. In 1991, Democrats attacked President George H.W. Bush for spending $26,750 on a private production company to produce his stay-in-school, say-no-to-drugs message, which was carried live on CNN and some PBS stations. "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the President," House majority leader Dick Gephardt said at the time. The Bush White House's insistence that the speech was "not political" has been echoed in the current Education Department's defense that Obama's address is "not a policy speech...