Word: wente
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...administration went beyond the report’s initial recommendations. Noting that about a third of undergraduates eat breakfast and the University would save $900,000 as a result of the cut, the administration decided to keep only Annenberg open for hot breakfast during weekdays next year...
...decision that was made as fully or carefully financially as it should have been,” says the professor.Faust recently said in an interview that she thinks the Science Complex was “on a fast track” and that “we went ahead with the design of the building before we went and raised money from people,” though she added that this is standard practice at Harvard. With markets deteriorating, Shore, Harvard’s CFO, says that by the fall, it was clear “the old capital plan...
...volatility of the market before securities prices took a nosedive, says Aaron C. Brown ’78, a risk manager at the quant hedge fund AQR Capital Management. But when the forward-looking VaR suddenly rose—reflecting a dramatic increase in risk—warning signs went unheeded.“People have a tendency to ignore that and to say, ‘Well, just clean up the numbers,’” Brown says. “If the model never surprises you, the market surprises you instead.”In light...
...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 to struggle to find her voice on the issue, vacillating between being a neutral facilitator and opposing...
...about the current standard, “that in practice it was often ‘more likely than not.’”According to the Ad Board’s guide for students, in 2007-2008, about half of disciplinary cases put the students who went before the board on probation or required them to withdraw for some period of time, typically one to two years.FACULTY LEGISLATIONReview committee members will also be working with deans this summer to draft legislation for the faculty to amend student handbook policies on the Ad Board.Some major changes that will...