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Among some hikers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the quad-straining trail to the summit of 4,344-ft. Mount St. Helena near Calistoga, Calif., is known as "the stairway to heaven" for its panoramic views of the Napa and Sonoma valleys. These views, however, soon may be off-limits to visitors - the latest victim of the Golden State's staggering budget crisis. The trail sits within Robert Louis Stevenson State Park, one of up to 100 state parks in California that might be closed by Labor Day to help eliminate a budget gap of $26 billion. While...
...high school student was, like Gates, confronted by police for attempting to "steal" his own property while trying to unlock his bike. And in the spring of 2007, students called the police on the Black Men’s Forum and Association of Black Harvard Women barbeque in the Quad following a heated discussion on the Cabot House email list in which many expressed skepticism that the picnickers were actually Harvard students—the same sort of skepticism that may have compelled Gates's neighbor to phone in a burglary when she saw a black man attempting to force...
...regardless of Sergeant Crowley’s moral character, Gates was the victim of racial prejudice, just as the picnickers in the Quad were the victims of racial prejudice, just as every black student who has ever been asked to show ID to prove that he belongs in Harvard Yard has been the victim of racial prejudice. But the prejudice involved in these cases is subtle rather than overt...
...coming weeks to meet and discuss the changes with staff.A part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, HCL administers Widener, Lamont, and Cabot Science libraries among others.Laying off employees is only the most recent budget-cutting measure implemented in Harvard's libraries. Administrators decided to convert the Quad library into student social space in order to reduce costs, and House libraries have been forced to trim employment hours and restrict student hiring to meet a mandated 25 percent House budget reduction.The library cuts as well as others in FAS come as a result of a projected $220 million annual...
This is just too sad. A deer died yesterday after trying to jump over the wrought-iron fence around the cemetery between the Square and the Quad, according to the Cambridge Chronicle, which offers up the following quote from Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief Jack Gelinas...