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...Harvard Depository, a mysterious storage facility in a publicly undisclosed location 30 miles from campus where large tracts of land are less expensive than in Cambridge. While the facility was originally intended to store Harvard’s least-used volumes, it is now home to 45 percent of Harvard’s collections. David Lamberth, chair of the Library Implementation Work Group, calls it a “precise warehouse” for which the term “library” would prove inaccurate...
...loans taken out after July 1, 2004, the legislation will reduce the share of income a graduate must devote to loan payments from 15 to 10 percent, and the loan forgiveness period from 25 to 20 years...
According to Donahue, even though Harvard’s financial aid program is able to meet the full need for all students without loans, the increase in Pell Grants—which amount to approximately 3 percent of Harvard’s grants—will be beneficial...
According to the School of Public Health’s Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Laura T. Ketchum, payout from the University endowment accounts for only 13 percent of the school’s revenue—a smaller fraction than at any other school. Instead, the school relies primarily on federal research funding for its budget...
...problem of domestic abuse in the South Asian community has been studied on a few occasions with striking results. When the Asian Task Force against Domestic Violence (ATASK) conducted a study in Massachusetts in 2000, it found that “44 percent of South Asians know a woman who has been physically abused or injured by her partner,” and “31 percent know a woman whose partner insults or humiliates her regularly.” Professors Anita Raj of Boston University and Jay Silverman of the Harvard School of Public Health published a study...