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After last night’s town hall, Greenfield vowed that the Inquiry Commission would continue its efforts to solicit student opinion...
...held an earthquake relief banquet at Kirkland House on Oct. 29.“I appreciate how responsive the University has been, although I wished this happened a little sooner,” she said.The organizations will also host an inter-faith remembrance service and vigil on Wednesday to solicit more donations, and Mir said that the group is anticipating an additional financial contribution from the University for that event.Harvard Law School student Erum Navaee, a native of Pakistan, said that she believed a better policy would be to match funds donated by students because they would be more likely...
...discrepancy, making it more practical for raging parties to return to the fabled super-suites of Harvard College.Other flaws in the current party fund system exist, however, that the super-party initiative cannot address by itself. Although parties receiving UC subsidization must be open to all undergraduates, some students solicit party grants and spend the student body’s money on gatherings that are essentially closed to non-invitees. To avoid this problem, the UC requires that all recipients of party grants advertise the parties to “a significant number of undergraduates,” but some...
...fungible.” But Summers also fielded some difficult questions. One parent asked about the College’s constant request for donations, specifically referring to an opinion piece in the New York Times that questioned these practices at Yale. “Why does Harvard solicit parents for money when the endowment is so large?” he asked. Summers responded that potentially life-saving faculty research and students’ future contributions to society make Harvard a worthy cause. On Saturday afternoon, parents were treated to the music of the Harvard University band while they...
...Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She said that some of the ways that people can contribute to the earthquake relief include adopting a tent for $5 and writing letters to politicians. But Sarwar also emphasized that there was a short period in which people could solicit help. “The window of opportunity for effective action is closing soon...very soon,” she said. “If we don’t get aid to these people by December 1 the world will be tacitly consenting to an additional million or so deaths...