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...commodity the Yarmouk Hospital has in abundance is doctors. A medical college next door supplies a steady stream of residents. Many of the best doctors fled Iraq before and after the war, but the demobilization of Saddam Hussein's army has left the country with a surplus of military surgeons, who are grateful for a hospital job that pays $350 a month. Their experience in battlefield medicine gives them the ability both to manage expectations and to improvise. "If a patient leaves the ER still breathing and not bleeding, then I would say we have done our job," says Qais...
...problem lies in the structure of student billing accounts and the way in which students money almost exclusively funds HUDS operations. Under the current system, the BoardPlus surplus goes back into HUDS annual budget; it is money that has already been counted on in planning board budgets. The money from BoardPlus, which amounts to $100 per student per year, is expected to funnel into HUDS either through spending at HUDS-operated cafes or through the surplus. If the surplus money were to be directed elsewhere, HUDS would be running on a deficit. The obvious result would be an increase...
...solution is a simple one. Instead of establishing a precedent of swiping for a single cause, students should be given a choice at the end of the year about the humanitarian destination of their surplus Crimson Cash. University Hall would establish a process whereby student activist groups (like the Darfur Action Group) could petition for their causes being included on the menu of options that would be available to students. The College administration would have to establish its own criteria for eligibility, but the process would make swipe-card based fundraising available to more groups than just those that have...
BoardPlus, unlike Crimson Cash, is reset to zero at the end of the school year regardless of surplus funds. Leftover money is deposited into HUDS’s reserves...
After posting a $5.9 million deficit in fiscal year 2002, the historically cash-strapped KSG has seen its financial fortunes brighten. The school, which cut costs and upped fundraising, posted a $1.1 million surplus for fiscal year...