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...service in the last six months. FAS IT administrators made the decision to cut the service earlier this summer, when all departments and units across the Faculty were combing through their budgets. After announcing last spring that they would have to close a $220 million deficit over the space of two years, FAS administrators have only identified $77 million worth of budget cuts that are set for immediate implementation. Should users wish to “check their e-mail very, very slowly,” Selsby said with a laugh, third-party dial-up service providers, such as www.netzero.net...
...doing a great and much-needed work and that it is the most democratic influence in the university.” But despite its success, the Union’s financial situation deteriorated over the years and it fell into disuse by the late 1920s. In 1930, the space was converted into a freshman dining hall, which it remained until 1997, when it was turned into the Barker Center...
...Harvard’s recent history, several stabs have been taken at this challenge, but previous top-down efforts to create a meaningful space for student life have been unsuccessful. The Loker Commons folded after great cost; the Queen’s Head Pub, though admirable, is inaccessible to the majority of undergraduates; and the Student Organization Center at Hilles is too removed to provide a social alternative adequate for the Harvard community. If you pressed a Harvard student to name the social center of campus life, a clear majority might embarrassingly cite Lamont Café, which is, after...
...alternative path that the SCCC presents is a bottom-up, student-driven, independent movement to bring a successful conclusion to this lengthy process to establish a social life for Harvard students. What it promises is a genuine rallying point for the entire Harvard community: a centrally located space for student groups to meet and host events, for alumni to take the pulse of the campus, for continuous planned and impromptu artistic exhibitions. Perhaps most importantly, a locale for individual students to come together and create the kind of spontaneous interactions that make it such a privilege to attend a school...
...daunting as the challenge may appear, it behooves the Harvard community to seize the opportunity before us and thereby make the most of our own educations by breathing life back into the major’s vision of an inclusive, democratic common space that all Harvard students can call their...