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Gray was said to have been nonplussed by the tenure of Neil L. Rudenstine, whose ten-year reign over Harvard she saw as overly passive and lacking in vision. Speaking at commencement ceremonies at MIT in 1995, Gray took what some saw as a veiled swipe at Rudenstine, arguing in lofty rhetoric for more dynamic leadership in higher education: “It is instructive to see how much of the rhetoric having to do with the decline of higher education derives from the language of a larger nostalgia and from romantic visions of a golden age that never quite...
Most recently, under pressure from students, University Dining Services launched the “Swipe-for-Darfur” program, which allows undergraduates to use their Crimson Cash dollars to support African Union peacekeepers in Sudan...
...only tangible things that have been done for Darfur writ large have happened at this University,” Power said in May, referring to divestment and Swipe-for-Darfur...
...would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
...Credit cards or even debit cards would require a staff person to process the donation,” Hamilton said. “Whereas with the Crimson Cash machines, students can quickly and easily punch the amount they want to donate, swipe their card and be on their way, without any staffing needs...