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...Life Fellow. The Fellow for the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) will be charged with coordinating several ongoing IT projects at the College as well as the development of the online CUE evaluation. The fellow will work with Registrar Barry S. Kane and other administrators “to transform the way that Harvard College students conduct their academic and administrative business,” according to an online statement announcing the new fellowship. The fellow will take charge of the CUE project and will be responsible for all the processes and decision-making relating to the initiative, including soliciting...
...refuse to believe this is all that the IOP can be. We sought to transform the IOP’s relationship to Harvard students by reorienting its relationship with student political groups. Right now, the IOP stands, more or less, as one political group among many: there’s the Harvard College Democrats (Dems), the Harvard College Republicans (HRC), Student Labor Action Movement, Harvard Right to Life, Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group, various other issue-based and ethnic groups—and then there’s the IOP. And while some overlap exists between the IOP and members...
...abroad. Thanks in large part to the efforts of the government he leads, the economy is on a more solid footing than it has been in years, and the nation is riding a long-overdue wave of optimism. Overseas, Koizumi has led the most serious postwar movement yet to transform Japan from a vassal state of the U.S. into a leading player in global politics, one that might one day have a fully functioning military, a revised constitution that renounces pacifism, and a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. In 2005, he cemented his position...
Take, for instance, the College’s current plans to transform Hilles Library into a viable student space, with offices and meeting space for student groups to boot. All seemed well, and then the College had to go and rain on everyone’s parade by revealing just how they envisioned redesigning the space. To make a long story short, organizations—including those to whom secrecy is paramount, like The Harvard Salient—would have to content themselves with cubicles partitioned by curtains, instead of the office space of their dreams (think walls and doors...
...have Phase One begin and end in 2006, he could not predict when the whole project would be completed. While sidewalks, bus stops, and pedestrian safety are major concerns of the committee, DiGiovanni said that much thought has been put into a detailed plan to “transform Palmer Street into the most photographed street in Harvard Square.” Palmer Street, the cobblestone alley between either entrance of the Coop, is scheduled to be completed as part of Phase One of the project that will begin in the Spring. The street will include special lighting...