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Anxiety didn’t disappear for everyone when students finished their exams before Christmas—in fact, for many employees of Harvard University Dining Services, it was only beginning. While students reveled during Harvard’s new five-week winter break, the dining halls closed one by one, leaving the staff essentially unemployed from the last week of December to the last week of January...

Author: By Sofia V. McDonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the Heat of the Kitchen | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Harvard does allocate paid leave for the breaks in the academic calendar. The system is based on seniority; according to the existing contract, which is set to expire next June, HUDS employees accrue an annual three weeks of paid vacation after five years of continuous service, and every additional five years of continuous service results in another week of paid vacation every year. However, with the long-awaited arrival of J-Term, workers are forced to spread their paid vacation over not one but two lengthy breaks...

Author: By Sofia V. McDonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the Heat of the Kitchen | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Following the end of Harvard’s season three weeks ago, Lin took less than a week off before beginning individual workouts with assistant coach Kenny Blakeney...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lin’s Hoop Dreams Lead Him to Portsmouth Invitational | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

...role at McGill, Rosengarten spends his time in Cambridge only every other week. But that commuting arrangement, which disrupted Master-related plans in the early 2000s, is set to end in July. McDonald says this “dovetailed perfectly” with the House Master search...

Author: By Danielle J. Kolin and Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New House Masters Bring Twin Interests to Mather | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Miles giggles joyously. He turned four last week, but his speech development is lagging, and while April understands him, Miles is often unintelligible to outsiders. When the problem was first flagged a couple years ago, he could speak only a few words. “I just wanted him to say ‘Mommy,’” April remembers...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Baby Balancing Act | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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