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...said. Li, who chairs the UC’s Finance Committee, added that he believed that the efforts of active Dems to win seats on the Council may have been directly related to the onset of the UC presidential season and the prospect of Sundquist’s candidacy. Yet Brigit M. Helgen ’08, the president of the Harvard Democrats, said she had had no conversations with Petersen or Sundquist about the elections, and added that an endorsement by the Dems of any candidate was premature. “I don’t think that...
...toward federal grants and subsidized loans. Some advocates for the lending industry have criticized the legislation, arguing that it would drive up interest rates for students with private loans. At Harvard, however, loans are subsidized by the University or the federal government, meaning students are not faced with the prospect of going through private lenders. The cut in funding to student lenders comes after recent investigations revealed that some lenders had endeavored to win over universities with gifts and other sorts of incentives in an attempt to increase profits...
...entire system, with a particular eye toward the lack of student representation on the Board. We had hoped that this reevaluation would fix the lack of due process in Harvard’s disciplinary system. But this summer, Gross abruptly resigned, and with him seems to have gone the prospect of reform this fall. To be fair, Gross’ interim successor, David R. Pilbeam has not completely dropped the ball on this critically important issue. In an e-mail to The Crimson, Pilbeam wrote that he hoped by the end of the term to appoint three faculty members...
...then, of course, there is the biggest unknowable: What will black voters, the Democratic Party's most loyal constituency, do when forced to choose between their longstanding allegiance to the Clintons and the prospect of seeing the first African American in the White House? Pollsters say black voters appear deeply divided, with Obama winning among younger and male African-Americans and Clinton running stronger among older African-American women. But pollsters also say that could change if Obama's overall prospects improve...
...town, and Ahmadinejad strutted and fretted plenty. He was snubbed first by the city of New York when he proposed laying a wreath at ground zero. No can do, police said; too big a security risk, which was rather delicately put, given how revolted New Yorkers were by the prospect of a tyrant's hand touching sacred ground. Next came Columbia University's president, Lee Bollinger, who managed to outrage just about everyone either for inviting Ahmadinejad to speak or for insulting him before he had a chance to. As it turned out, Bollinger's "vaccination" was unnecessary, since...