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...Radcliffe's general and administrative expenses compounded at a 14.2 percent rate, according to the college's annual reports. These do not include the expenses for the capital campaign, a sum by the way, which has been far in excess of the norm usually spent on campaigns of its size...
Second, when speaking of Radcliffe's endowment, no mention was made at how poorly it has been managed. The compounded 10 year return was 12 percent--among the worst (if not the worst) records of any endowment of comparable size. In the past three years alone (the only years for which Radcliffe shows these numbers), the endowment has underperformed its modest benchmark number by an average of more than three percentage points per year...
...this happen? Who is responsible for the bug we call Y2K? Conventional wisdom goes something like this: back in the 1950s, when computers were the size of office cubicles and the most advanced data-storage system came on strips of punched cardboard, several scientists, including a Navy officer named Grace Murray Hopper, begat a standard programming language called COBOL (common business-oriented language). To save precious space on the 80-column punch cards, COBOL programmers used just six digits to render the day's date: two for the day, two for the month, two for the year...
Sunday's meeting marked the changing of the guard for the council. Beth A. Stewart '00 gave her closing remarks, paving the way for Noah Z. Seton '00 to take over. Unfortunately, the council did not kick things off in 1999 the way it should have, by reducing the size of the council from 90 to 60; and by deciding to have a campus-wide referendum on the best way to spend the recent windfall...
...have said before on this page, the only way the council has a shot at achieving some sort of legitimacy is to cut its size. With fewer members, who are actually forced to compete against one another to gain seats on the council, council representatives will be forced to run on legitimate platforms (or at least popular ones). Some members object that reducing the size of the council will make it less representative. This is nonsense, for as it stands now our student government is more of a volunteer organization than an elected body; essentially the council represents the views...