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...increased focus on HoCos also calls attention to the need to monitor spending of UC funds and highlights problems with house budgets. Currently, HoCos receive their funding from the UC, and all houses, regardless of their size, work under the same budget. It would be wise for the UC to review this arrangement and consider updating it reflect the large disparities in size between houses. Bigger houses might need bigger funds. The UC can take the opportunity to investigate whether money is being properly managed and propose new ideas...
...York Times. But just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, FM has gathered some stats on the recession’s effects on Harvard, ranging from the obvious to the surprising to the potentially infuriating. Just remember: regardless of what our endowment is and what our administrators get paid, there is “a wealth of intellectual opportunity within this university.” Yeah, thanks, President Faust...
...Regardless, committee members said they felt that a system that holds teachers more accountable while supporting professional growth is necessary...
With the health workers, regardless of how statistically safe these vaccinations are, there are relevant concerns with getting vaccinations. For example, the H1N1 vaccine packaged in a multidose vial contains the mercury compound thimersol, which though present in trace amounts, could still bother consumers. And there is the infamous case from 1976 when the vaccine used to treat swine flu was associated with Guillain-Barré syndrome, causing paralysis in some patients. There are few data to provide conclusive evidence of causation, and scientists now assure us that the production of vaccines has greatly improved in the last 30 years...
...bolstered by popular personalities like Glenn Beck, who said on his radio show that the vaccine could be “deadly,” and comedian Bill Maher, who on his Twitter feed called anyone who received the H1N1 vaccine an “idiot.” Regardless of the validity of these claims and the science that strongly indicates otherwise, do people have a right to make what may be an unhealthful decision...