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...need 40 hours of flight time,” she says. A Cessna can cost more than $100 each hour to rent. Cash-strapped flight aficionados shouldn’t lose hope, though. After negotiating with Hanscom Field in nearby Bedford, Beica is hoping for at least a 5 percent discount on rentals. Additionally, the club would split the costs of renting a plane among members. The ranks of the trained-but-unable (as well as the untrained, wannabe Tom Cruises a la “Top Gun”) are sizeable. Beica received 72 responses to a mass introductory...
...left over from previous semesters to fund its operations. Sundquist said that money is running out quickly and they will not have enough to fund events all semester.On Sunday, the council voted unanimously to allocate $17,000 to allow for 10 weeks of grants. Sundquist said that about 4 percent of UC funds go to private parties. McLoughlin ended his meeting with the ultimatum that if the UC refused to end private party funds, the administration would begin its own grant-giving system, adding that such a system has existed in the dean’s office in the past...
Asian Americans constitute roughly 4 percent of the US population and 20 percent of the class of 2011 . One might at first be inclined to frown at a seeming infestation of the gawky and bespectacled yellow masses into our most elite and whitewashed institutions—but before we indulge in the image, let’s try to imagine more precisely the demographic to which the numbers refer...
...student group e-mail lists exploded, as undergraduates vented their outrage. One student proposed on his house open list that the College “is run by regulatory zealots.” Another griped that “Dean Pilbeam’s letter is 70-80 percent bullshit.” What tact. It’s not surprising that students are mourning the end of the party grant days (free-flowing booze is a good time indeed) but the vitriol reaction toward Pilbeam’s announcement is bizarre. The University is a multibillion-dollar corporation subject...
...could already see by looking at the intestine under the microscope that bad things were happening by three, three-and-a-half weeks of age,” said Glimcher, who authored the study. “A hundred percent of the mice got the disease—a very aggressive disease. We pretty much had to euthanize the mice by the time they were 12 weeks...