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Also at the table was Wes Mannion, head of Australia Zoo, the for-profit founded by the late Steve Irwin, the "Crocodile Hunter." The zoo had inked a deal with the government to help save the wombat, mainly through research support. "It's all about the marketing and money, mate," chimed in Mannion, an Irwin look-alike in his Aussie safari outfit. That view won over Alan Horsup, a conservation officer who spent the past two decades in an often lonely quest to pull the northern hairy-nose back from the edge of extinction. "I didn't like...
...series of films funded by and promoting the Marshall Plan in Western Europe in a program called “Selling Democracy, Films of the Marshall Plan: 1948-1953.” The event, organized by curator Sandra P. Schulberg and funded by the Goethe-Institut (a German non-profit cultural institute), features 25 short films constructed around the Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve daily life, to more broadly pedantic lectures on the nascent...
...campus. The site’s owners claim that they “will continue to expand our product and service offerings until GetOutOfCambridge.com serves as the one-stop shop for traveling students.” This is a worthy goal, even if the organization is a for-profit enterprise. The new website is especially useful for students, who usually travel with strict budget constraints...
...UC’s decision to fund this promising business has been met with considerable controversy. Some UC members have voiced opposition to the idea of the council funding for-profit businesses; others have objected that the recent grant is not part of the council’s mandate to improve student life at Harvard. These objections, while well intentioned, are undermined by the simple fact that Get Out of Cambridge provides a much-needed service that has heretofore not existed on campus and therefore deserves support from the larger undergraduate community. Additionally, since the UC was given a stake...
...course, there are always risks involved in funding for-profit firms. The UC should be cautious when funding a student business and ensure that these enterprises will provide a clear benefit to all Harvard students. We urge the council to carefully scrutinize any and all applications from student-run businesses and make sure that the grants provided by the UC will benefit all students equally. Nevertheless, we are confident that, in the case of Get Out of Cambridge, the UC has made the right decision...