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...position of assistant to the Allston Burr Resident Dean may face significant “restructuring” as House Masters grapple with the administration’s mandate to trim next year’s House budgets by 25 percent. According to House administrators, who spoke to The Crimson on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs, the College administration is currently considering two proposals, both of which would scale back the position. One option is to consolidate the responsibilities of the 12 resident dean assistants, requiring one assistant to manage two or three Houses. The other...
...support for Barack Obama during his presidential campaign was enthusiastic and near-unanimous. When he won, the university was jubilant. His ideals of shared sacrifice and spreading the wealth, however, appear to have made few inroads on campus (“HLS Will Cut Staff To Trim Budget,” News, May 6). While faculty and top administrators, most of who earn six figures, face the annoyance of not receiving pay raises, staff and service workers are threatened with losing their jobs altogether. In this economy, it is unlikely they can find new ones. In The Crimson and elsewhere...
...hitch a ride back to the quad on the warm shuttle and crawl under your covers. Well…too bad. Instead you are going to have to make that twelve-minute trek up Garden Street on foot. The Crimson broke the news that the university plans to trim shuttle services next year. Quad open lists EXPLODED with protest...
...Proposals for a nonprofit organization to trim its workforce in light of a recession are rightly controversial, even from economic point of view. In the Keynesian model, a recession can lead to a vicious circle of self-perpetuating cutbacks unless the government steps in to buttress demand. Under this logic, any actor claiming to act in the public interest (including but not limited to the government) ought to buy more goods (and labor) in a recession than a for-profit corporation under comparable constraints in order to maintain employment and demand levels...
...there is such a thing as sentimental value. My clunker has loads of that. We raised three babies and a toddler in that old van, which means it was doomed from the start to be both filthy and loved. That trim we sheared off during our first family vacation. The crayon mural across the backseat. The permanent apple-juice glaze at the bottom of the cup holders. The energetic scribble engraved with mommy's keys in the car door. The Cinderella stickers fused to the back window. We have stories, and memories, to match every disgusting inch of that...