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...transfer students was to be halved—“We always want to have space for some exceptional transfer students.” Believing that promise, 1,308 students competed for the 40 estimated transfer spots for the 2008-2009 school year, down from 75 two years prior. A month after the application deadline, bad news was sprung upon the applicants: Harvard will not be accepting any transfer students for the next two academic years, citing the extensive evaluation of the rampant housing crunch as the cause. Although the space crunch is a real and important issue, this...
...still accommodate everyone while minimizing costs. We understand that there are personnel and financial issues involved with operating dining halls over vacation. Taking into consideration the way that HUDS’ budget is determined each year, its constraints are understandable. But the distribution of funds is decided each winter prior to the school year, and the next time around HUDS should allocate some resources to providing food over Spring Break. Given the amount that students pay for board, we simply cannot have hungry kids at Harvard...
Schultz moved swiftly. On Jan. 30, he announced that Starbucks would close 100 underperforming stores and curtail U.S. store openings to about 1,175 in 2008, down 34% from the prior year. The breakfast sandwiches were toast in North America. To get focused on the long term, it would stop reporting comp-store sales to Wall Street. Then, at the March 19 annual meeting, the company laid out its initiatives to reinvigorate the "coffee experience." Some of the projects had been kicked around, but with Schultz back in the CEO chair, everything started to get done more rapidly. "The rate...
...week ending January 26, 2008, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 200 points after the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts failed to kick-start the economy, the surge in searches for "recession" increased two-fold over searches for the term in the prior weeks of 2008. But as with searches for "gas prices" and "foreclosures," our concerns over the news was ephemeral. By the following week, those same searches decreased...
...facing the Ad Board for drug abuse? Beyond its blatant disregard for student growth and rehabilitation, this policy further demonstrates how out of touch with student interests the Ad Board is. Unfortunately, the sole avenue for feedback—the required letter of reflection that the Ad Board evaluates prior to reinstating a student’s registration—sheds little light. Quite predictably, students pleading to return to school have little incentive to be honest or forthright about the pitfalls of time off. Hopefully, the student perspective that Sundquist’s appointment brings shall be the first...