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Meanwhile the University has announced several multi-million dollar initiatives, including replacing the tower on Memorial Hall at $4 million and a $200 million commitment to two science centers...
...focus our critique on a University and College administration which refuses to provide adequate funding and space for student groups, especially minorities. Why is Harvard sinking $4 million into a pretty, new tower atop Sanders Theatre while the students smiling and dancing for admissions brochures inside plea for a student center? It is as though the University is using student groups to authenticate Harvard's "diversity" (its latest marketing gimmick), while ignoring all of serious needs of students...
...focus our critique on a University and College administration which refuses to provide adequate funding and space for student groups, especially minorities. Why is Harvard sinking $4 million into a pretty, new tower atop Sanders Theatre while the students smiling and dancing for admissions brochures inside plea for a student center? It is as though the University is using student groups to authenticate Harvard's "diversity" (its latest marketing gimmick), while ignoring all of serious needs of students...
...second relevant news item of last week is Dean Knowles' announcement of a $4 million project to rebuild a tower atop Memorial Hall which burned down in 1956. "Is it not a fitting end to the century and to the [Capital] Campaign that Memorial Hall should be restored to its proper glory?" he queried. Perhaps I am alone, but I actually think that restoring Mem. Hall to its pre 1956 days could wait, at least until, for example, undergraduates are no longer needed to TF courses. Knowles' announcement illustrates quite starkly where priorities lie--in this typical case, with "glory...
Millions of teens and twenty-somethings like Zotaley have joined the digital revolution, downloading music from the Net and skipping that trip to Tower Records, thereby saving the $16.99 they would have spent on a CD. On college campuses that offer students fast T-1 connections to the Internet, up to 75% of students are music pirates...