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Tuition, room, and board for Harvard College students will increase by 3.5 percent to $47,215 for the 2008-2009 school year, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith announced yesterday. This increase is the smallest the College has seen in seven years. The College’s financial aid budget is also set to expand by 21.4 percent to $125 million in the wake of last year’s sweeping reforms aimed at increasing affordability for middle-class and upper-middle class families. These reforms include eliminating student loans and expanding the financial...
...funds to House Committees (HoCos). According to the proposal, each of the 12 HoCos will receive $1,000, and an additional $366 will go to Dudley House. These figures will be in addition to the money the UC already distributes to HoCos. Traditionally, the Council divides 25 percent of its budget each semester across the 12 Houses equally and awards Dudley one-sixteenth of that amount plus $1,000. This semester, $4,870 has already been allocated to each HoCo and $1,780 to Dudley. The rest of the approximately $17,000 that would have funded party grants in past...
...Technology reports a continuous effort to fix wireless problems on campus, Harvard students still gripe. The 2006-2007 Annual Undergraduate Computer Survey, based on 2951 responses, shows a noticeable difference in satisfaction between the River Houses and the Quad (for once Quadlings win out), while freshmen reported a zero percent dissatisfaction rate.Those in Mass. Hall are better connected than most—43 percent report they are very satisfied, 43 percent are satisfied, and 14 percent are neutral with their wireless connections.In contrast, the River Houses seem to still be awaiting a flood of signal. Adams House...
...unsurprised. On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge dismissed the lawsuit that challenges the ban on affirmative action that was approved by voters, known as Proposal 2. In 2006, Michigan residents voted to end affirmative action in public universities and agencies in the state by a majority of 58 percent. Harvard Law School professor Mark V. Tushnet said he thought the court’s decision was “not surprising” due to the claims present in the lawsuit. “One of the lines of argument that the challengers presented was that affirmative action...
...Washington Post poll found that 69 percent of Americans believed, as Bush had suggested, that there was a direct link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida’s Sept. 11 attacks...