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...With next year’s budget still in flux and the University??s financial situation bleak, administrators say they have been put in a tough situation—having to cut back on House life while simultaneously promising to bolster...
...spring 2007, the Undergraduate Council reignited the discussion, calling for a student referendum on support for the calendar revision. Of the 3,467 students who voted, 84 percent responded in favor of the change.At the end of that academic year, Bok announced that the Harvard Corporation—the University??s highest governing body—had approved a calendar modeled on the Verba committee’s initial suggested schedule.But in August 2007, just months after Bok’s announcement, Gross stepped down as dean of the College. David R. Pilbeam served as acting dean until...
...reality.”A year and a half later, with the world fully steeped in financial turmoil, that report in the Boston Globe—which suggested that Faust was distancing herself from the confrontational, fast-moving style of her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, and rethinking the University??s outsized Allston plans—seems remarkably prescient. The University has not only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary—and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible—plans to construct...
...undergraduates. The debate on the matter came to a head during a May 3 meeting, during which the Council passed legislation authorizing a capital campaign in a down-to-the-wire vote, pitting McLeod against Flores. Early on in the social space debate, Flores advocated channeling energies through the University??s Committee on Common Spaces as a way to improve options. But the Council went forward with an alternate plan that skirted the need for administrative interaction: they decided to raise their funds independently in order to purchase property that could be made into a student center.Flores seemed...
...high-risk, in accordance with recommendations from the Mass. Public Health Commission. A May 22 update on H1N1 testing guidelines issued by the Mass. Department of Public Health suggested that “individuals with mild illness should be advised to stay at home.” The University??s announcement comes weeks after several now-confirmed cases of H1N1 occurred at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, which prompted University and Boston health authorities to temporarily suspend classes at Harvard’s Longwood medical campus and close the dental school’s treatment clinic. High absenteeism...