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...processing this directive] ruled that the luxury-goods firm has been breaking the law by opening its huge, 1,800-sq-m emporium on Sundays, one of its most heavily trafficked days. Although much Sunday trading is banned in France, Louis Vuitton had received an exemption from the Paris prefect by arguing that the store was a cultural landmark, not just a commercial one. But the tribunal upheld a complaint brought by a national federation representing small clothing retailers and a French Christian labor union. The federation took issue with what it sees as unfair competition, while the CFTC union...
...resident advisers for the Board of Freshman Advisers, improve the orientation for those advisers, and coordinate electronic and printed information on advising. The very first initiative of the office was to create a Student Advisory Board (SAB) representing all four undergraduate classes. Since the College already had a Prefect Board comprised of dedicated, energetic, and enthusiastic students committed to working with first-year students, the APO asked the nine members of that Board to join the SAB. All other undergraduates were sent emails by the Freshman Dean’s Office and the Houses asking them to apply...
...taking command of the new job behind the cameras as well. Benedict made a key personnel shift last week in Rome, scaling back the role of a John Paul favorite, powerful Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, who was moved from the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to the Archdiocese of Naples. Cardinal Ivan Dias, the longtime archbishop of Bombay known to be respected by the new Pope, was brought in to take Sepe...
...expected $1,000 stipend, each would receive $300-a-semester to spend on their 10 freshman advisees.With the additional $600-per-fellow allocation, as much as $305,000 could be spent on the new program.The roughly 190 fellows are assuming some of the duties of the former Prefect Program since they are also assigned to entryways. Prefects indirectly received $20 per student for entryway study breaks throughout the year. That funding is administered by freshman proctors.Haining Gouinlock ’07, a Prefect Program board member and future advising fellow, said the prefects received “very little funding?...
...administration initiatives offer promising potential for peer learning and collaboration, both at the student and student group level. First off, the new peer advising fellowships, a dramatically restructured, advising-centric reincarnation of the Freshmen Prefect Program, will offer freshmen advice from upperclassmen who have recently navigated the first years of the Harvard undergraduate curriculum themselves...