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...been popular since they were first offered in 1991. But the UC has never been exceptionally good at organizing them. Complaints of late, absent, and overbooked shuttles have been accumulating for 10 years. Last winter, in a particularly bad case of mismanagement, the UC had to deny spots to ticket-holding students because there was not enough space on the buses, leaving many students rushing to make their flights...
Today 875 students out of 4,008 hopefuls will open their mailboxes or e-mail accounts to find the golden ticket of college admissions—congratulatory letters and e-mails from the admissions office offering them a place in the College’s Class of 2011. In its final year of early admissions, Harvard is inviting around 60 more students to join the incoming class than it did last year, the school announced today. The preliminary early admissions rate of 21.5 percent is almost identical to that of the previous two years. Dean of Admissions and Financial...
...horrendous job of it.” “But when the UC just threw up its hands and gave up entirely, it did a disservice to the student body that it claims to represent,” said Goldenberg, a former council vice-presidential candidate whose ticket placed second and a member of the Crimson editorial board. “It is incumbent on the UC leadership to find ways of providing these sorts of services more effectively than in the past.” But the debate will most likely not be resolved under the council?...
...control a team that already outspends everyone but the Yankees. You already have the second-largest contract ever on your books. Your tickets are far and away the most expensive in baseball, not to mention the hardest to get. How exactly are mortal fans supposed to get within a mile of Fenway Park next season? How much sense does it make that ticket prices in the ultimate college town are out of students’ leagues? Here’s some news for the Yawkey brain trust: All of Boston is Red Sox Nation, not just Louisburg Square?...
Remember your parents’ baseball? Kids could once spend an afternoon at the ballpark on a whim and some pocket change. Now, they almost have to choose between paying for a ticket and paying for college. Money in the game was running wild before, but the Red Sox’s splash has set an appalling new precedent that all fans will come to rue. Well done, baseball; you are managing to take the nation out of the national pastime...