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...Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America and Lehman Brothers collapsed.And as might be expected in a time of economic turmoil, fewer seniors—usually looking for their first full-time jobs—were able to find work this year than in the recent past.In this year??s Crimson survey of over 500 seniors, 59 percent of those seeking employment said that they currently have a job lined up, a drop from 66 percent in 2008 and 73 percent in 2007.The economic slump will also impact the support Harvard provides to undergraduates?...
...Citing a failure to create formal programming for next year??s inaugural “January Term” and a reluctance to divulge the contents of the Administrative Board Report—which proposed reforms to the College’s main disciplinary body—students have criticized the Hammonds’ administration specifically for a “lack of transparency,” says Christopher A. Johnson-Roberson...
...McLoughlin, who serves as Hammonds’ senior aid, says that the Dean had hoped to use her “freshman year?? to accustom herself to College life, including learning how to navigate the College bureaucracy. He and Kidd say that the nature of this year has prevented her from getting the chance to ease her way into the deanship...
...financial maelstrom. Faust praised her handpicked dean as one whose guiding hand has been “very steady at a time that has been one of great pressure.” Unfazed even as students and staff noisily protested outside the windows of University Hall during the year??s last Faculty meeting, the computer science professor has a distinctively scientific—perhaps even stoic—approach to the difficulties of the budgetary crisis...
...just such an opportunity. Many of you held assumptions about next steps after graduation that no longer seem viable. Some will need to take what may seem like a detour but which could ultimately become a welcome new path. If there is one wish I have for this year??s graduates, it is that they see this fiscal crisis as a freeing moment in which, since professional expectations are low, they are free to create and imagine a life that does not have a name or an established path. Our society needs many of you, even...