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...fashion—printing only 1,000 copies compared to the 6,000 to 8,000 they used to publish, according to Colette S. Perold ’11, H-Bomb’s business manager. Still feeling the pinch even with the donations, H-Bomb also decided to switch??at least for this issue—from a free and door-dropped magazine to a publication sold in dining halls for $5 a copy...
...Specifically, there is a change in chromatin structure so that the DNA collapses and forms a crystal matrix, inhibiting gene expression. Instead of the dormant organism using energy to sense the environment, it acts as a biophysical switch??when environmental conditions change, the chromatin relaxes and gene expression can resume...
...Mattison also complained of what he described as a “bait and switch?? on the part of the University. Harvard’s original proposal, which entailed reusing existing commercial buildings for interim storage, was later changed to the proposal for a permanent museum space on Barry’s Corner, which Mattison and his fellow residents discovered upon reading The Boston Globe the day after meeting with Harvard planners...
Presumably, Social Studies uses these tactics because it is so difficult to communicate to freshmen what exactly the concentration is, and Social Studies does not have the space for students to dabble and then switch??Social Studies needs, more than any other concentration, for students to get it right the first time. Bernstein said, “The process [of switching concentrations] is painful for students and it is painful for us; I want to stress to freshmen a need for self-reflection, not a need for fear...
Harvard made the switch??the University claimed—because subcontracting is more efficient and that as an educational institution, negotiating security contracts is not a main concern. Harvard, however, is not just an educational institution. As the oldest continually existent corporation in America, with an endowment nearing 30 billion dollars, and one of the area’s largest employers, it is an entity that cannot hide behind an educational veil; it is an entity that is more than capable of directly hiring security officers or at the very least ensuring that outsourced workers have just wages...