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...have used fact finders in all cases of peer on peer violence that have come before the Ad Board this year,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mail. “The number of such cases is not large, but in each case I feel that the process served us well...
...what classes he planned to attend. Then, before lectures ever began, the administration would make sure to place Ford’s anticipated classes in accessible buildings. And in the period when Ford was still searching for an aide, he could have turned to the Special Needs Awareness and Peer Services (SNAPS), where student volunteers on call from 8 a.m. until midnight would have helped him with everything from laundry to grocery shopping...
...review correctly identified early concentration choice as one of the prime inhibiting factors towards its ultimate end. The curricular review’s recommendation to delay the concentration decision to the end of Fall term of sophomore year—still a semester before the vast majority of our peer institutions—is of critical importance to the whole of its vision. This vision significantly deemphasizes a culture of producing academicians—a goal not all Harvard College students aspire to—in favor of championing the education of whole persons “so that they...
Some have argued that the proposed fee increase is too much, too fast. But compared to peer institutions’ student governments, the council is drastically under-funded. While our council’s budget hovers near $200,000, the Undergraduate Assembly (UA) at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school of comparable size, controls a budget of more than $1.1 million. Those advocating a gradual increase in council funds, linked to an index of inflation, fail to realize the supreme inadequacy of the council’s current budget. At even the highest proposed annual rate of increase...
Once we realized that we were struggling to respond to student group grant requests and complaints about social life, we began looking at our peer institutions and realized that our student activities fee is far lower than those at other schools. While every college structures its activities fee differently, in each case most of the money is disbursed by students for student groups, social life and services. Boston University (BU), for example, has a mandatory $414 yearly fee with $128 devoted to student groups and $82 to campus events. So even though BU’s fee covers a broader...