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...announced that it would fund the new board with $200,000 for the next academic year. With elected representatives dedicated solely to social programming and a close relationship with the College dean’s office, we expect that the new board will function far more efficiently than its predecessor, the UC’s Campus Life Committee (CLC), did. Notably missing, however, from the CEB’s mission is a commitment to provide logistical support and advice to students who wish to plan their own social events. We expect the board and its members...
...hopes, beheld their progresse in Learning and godlinesse also.” Three hundred sixty-three years and 26 presidents later, Harvard’s marquee public relations publication—the Harvard University Gazette, circulation 37,000—is carrying on the tradition set by its earliest predecessor. On February 21, the day of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation, the full-color weekly reported on Summers’ “dramatic,” “concrete,” and “major”achievements for the University...
...coming months, the committee will narrow the slate with successively shorter and shorter “short lists.” Past searches have begun with a first cut exceeding 400 or 500 names. Charles P. Slichter ’45, who chaired the search for Summers’ predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, said that his committee “looked seriously at every name that was put forward.” If the committee follows precedent, it will then convene biweekly throughout the fall as it pares down the list to the 30 or 40 most serious candidates.If...
Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ trusted mentor and predecessor as U.S. Treasury secretary, tried to salvage his protégé’s position. In the days after the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, he focused his discussion to officials at non-FAS schools, including Law School Dean Elena Kagan...
...Yale Bowl, for instance, the Harvard press box is directly above the field, which gives it a great view of the action. And the latest incarnation of what The Crimson dubbed a “phoenix of a press box” boasts one major advantage over its wooden predecessor: It was built of concrete and would play tough defense against visiting arsonists.WORLD ON FIREThe Harvard Stadium press box was not the only flash point that spring. On April 23, 1981, a 28-year-old Vietnamese immigrant named Nguyen Cheu hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long...