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After initially mandating that House Masters cut their annual budgets by 15 percent earlier this semester—in line with trimming guidelines for most departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—Harvard’s administration is now forcing Houses to slash yearly budgets by a quarter...
...comply with the 25 percent reduction in their budgets, House Masters, resident deans, and other House administrators said they will have to reduce the number and quality of student activities in their Houses—including Masters’ Open Houses and study breaks—and may have to reduce tutor meal plans and reconfigure some staff positions altogether...
...debates and revises the budget, the state Senate will draft a budget of their own. A final plan for state funds will be a compromise between these two and will be submitted to Patrick by July 1. The budget slashes aid to local communities by $424 million, a 25 percent reduction in the funding the state will distribute this year even after Patrick’s midyear cuts.According to State Representative Alice K. Wolf, Cambridge will see an approximate drop of $7 million in local aid as a result. Across Massachusetts, cities and towns are struggling to cope with...
...Harvard Dining, only the rich get to eat all that they want here. The menu says NO TIPPING in large letters near the bottom, which will make stingy college students breath a sigh of relief, but then the fine print underneath says that there is a surcharge of 18 percent! Even if your party is less than six people! Sneaky, indeed...
...signed into place before they were in kindergarten. But, while Harvard claims the moral high ground by keeping ROTC off campus, it has no ethical objections to associating itself with the federal government, which put the policy in place. In 2005, Harvard accepted federal funding equal to about 15 percent of the university’s operating budget...