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Hammonds also asked her colleagues to consider what should happen during next year’s inaugural January ‘J-term??—the four-week stint in next year’s revamped University calendar whose structure remains uncertain. Even the name of the period remains unclear. But Hammonds has settled on calling it the “January experience...
...prolonged winter break discourages these kinds of social activities. Under the current system, one can spend reading period at Harvard and a week-long intersession with friends; faced with a three-week long “J-term?? in January, on the other hand, many students will likely pass both the two week winter break and the three week J-term at home...
...poor choices. Their focus on the production of SUVs and trucks instead of more fuel-efficient cars has caused major profit losses, as consumers have turned away from these gas-guzzling vehicles. Union support for these strategies—while politically helpful to their constituents in the short term??has also made it difficult for Congress to impose fuel standards on the industry. Wherever the blame lies, however, making the changeover to producing more fuel-efficient vehicles will require a huge amount of capital, without which the automakers are likely to face bankruptcy. The bankruptcy...
...officials are declining salary raises or benefits. University President Drew G. Faust’s first-year salary will not be released until this spring. In 2006-2007, Ivy League presidents earned between $1—former University President Derek C. Bok forewent a salary during his interim term??and $1,411,894, taken home by Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger. Median pay and benefits for the heads of 184 public research universities was $427,400 in the 2007-2008 academic year, up 7.2 percent from the year before. Ohio State University?...
...because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly white, Jewish cast. His renditions of “Ten Copecks” had the audience doubled up in laughter from the start, as did his performance as a vaudeville MC in the second act. Tam, who starred in last term??s production of “Urinetown,” successfully managed to belt out a number of Yiddish songs while prancing about. Caplan, whose roles in the play ranged from Jewish immigrant father to wannabe tango star, deserves a special mention for his performance as well. Caplan...