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...here,” wrote Adams Allston Burr Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell in an e-mail about J-term to Adams residents yesterday evening. “Students who do not uphold expectations related to conduct will be asked to leave, and may lose the privilege of having Winter Break housing in the future...
Last week, Faculty of Arts Dean Michael D. Smith announced he would lift the salary freezes placed on faculty and staff last winter by providing two percent merit-based raises to professors and increasing stipends for graduate students by three percent. The Harvard community has not been given a brief on the state of the budget since Sept. 15, so we are unsure of whether the announcement is a sign of budget security or an exception to the FAS policy of late that dictates trimming spending wherever possible. Regardless, Dean Smith’s spending decisions are misdirected. Given...
Befitting his role as a personal-finance adviser, Farrell has plenty of penny-pinching commandments at the ready. "Clip coupons," he intones. "Watch for sales. Trim cable, cell-phone and Internet costs. Don't pay ATM fees. Find no-fee checking and savings accounts. In the winter, turn down the thermostat, and in the summer, use ceiling fans instead of air-conditioning. Feed your family home-cooked meals and take the leftovers for your lunch at work...
Kogos’s host mother—a former resident of Kenya—took it upon herself to assimilate Kogos to his new environment by taking him shopping for winter clothes...
Codrea said that host families may have been more important to students last year when the two-week-long winter break was not enough time for many students to return home...