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...planned to close even more plants, but the United Auto Workers prevailed on the Treasury Department to idle three other plants but move them over to the new GM. The company had based its latest round of plant closings on the assumption that U.S. car sales will only reach 10 million now and stay at that level in the future. However, union leaders argued that GM should keep the plants as a hedge against a robust recovery in new vehicle sales, possibly next year or the year after. "We know they're not going to [be at] 10 million units...
After last month’s announcement that late night shuttle service might be eliminated as part of a round of sweeping budget cuts, students erupted in protest, citing safety concerns that would arise if the decision were to go through. But a week later, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds sent an e-mail to the undergraduate population announcing that, pending further inquiry, shuttles will continue to run after 1:30 a.m. from Sunday to Wednesday next year. However, the administration remained mum on cutbacks to daytime shuttle service. Hammonds and several College administrators faced intense criticism from...
...Harvard gathers once again to solemnize the rites of Commencement for yet another graduating class, another such round of soul-searching does not seem out of place. While the percentage of our classmates destined for corporate cubicles certainly may have dwindled in these depressed economic times, the concern that Faust articulated last year retains its currency. In fact, without the plentiful powerful and high-paying positions Harvard students had begun to presume as their birthright awaiting them upon graduation, these once merely academic and existential concerns have assumed a new urgency...
...screen of my phone lit up. Just as I planned, and what good timing. A 212 area code. Even though the past year has bruised New York City, the number rang with promise. A person in a New York office building was calling me. The digits ended in a round number. Probably a very big office building. An important person who worked in a big Manhattan office building wanted to talk. This person could see great stretches of earth and sky from where he sat, and surveying all that landscape, had wisely decided to call me. The assembled members...
...students joined together to rally against the exclusion of student opinion in the first round of budget cuts. Leading up to the rally, students submitted over 70 pages of feedback on the budget process to the UC website. This input will guide the UC leadership over the summer, and has allowed the UC to gain a better grasp on student opinion. However, students must not lose interest in the budget process—for as Harvard reshapes and restructures, student opinion must be heard. We must build on the energy from the rally, and while it is the UC?...