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Last week, MIT paid $4.75 million in damages to the family of Scott Krueger, a MIT first-year who died of alcohol poisoning while rushing Phi Gamma Delta in 1997. In addition to the damages, the university endowed a $1.25 million scholarship and promised to drastically revamp its housing and drinking policies. For MIT, the settlement sheds harsh light on a negligent attitude that should have been fixed long ago. To colleges and universities across the nation, it is a concrete reminder they are responsible, at some minimum level, to provide a safe environment for their students...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: From Dollars to Sense | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...part of a continuing effort to revamp Harvard's sometimes troubled relations with its neighbors, Minneapolis lawyer Travis McCready has assumed the post of director of community relations for Cambridge...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCready To Assume Community Relations Post | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Above all, watch for confusion. Putin's reform plans are not yet ready. German Gref, a longtime Putin associate, says the blueprint for the future of Russia will be ready in April. Another ambitious plan, this time to revamp the country's bureaucracy, is months away. But that is only the start. Invaders are not the only ones who get bogged down in Russia's vast expanses. So do reformers. They are defeated by geography and by the millions of apparatchiks who are masters at blocking, diverting, distorting, delaying and eventually destroying policies they do not like. Reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Run for the Roses | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...Huidekoper tries to defuse tension, some say they are nervous because the ADAPT team has begun work on a second phase of the project that will revamp human resource (HR) information systems. A small group is currently assessing whether to proceed and will at some point produce a formal report...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Blast $112M Computer Systems | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...English department, after ranking very low in the 1997 senior survey--a 1.97 out of a possible 5--has been attempting to revamp its advising system as well. The 1999 survey shows the efforts have been successful. Last year, English scored...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In some fields, advising languishes | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

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