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Just two days after the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) raised questions about an Undergraduate Council (UC) plan to establish a center that would reduce coursepack costs, the UC passed a new proposal last night urging Harvard to help low-income students pay for course materials.The proposal, co-sponsored by the Students Taking On Poverty (STOP) Campaign, supports the establishment of a Course-Cost Assistance Program, which would use Financial Aid Office funds to provide $125-per semester stipends to undergraduates with family incomes under $40,000. Under the UC plan, students with family incomes between...
...Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) passed legislation calling for a much-needed reduction in the cost of coursepacks. We commend the UC leadership for taking this first step in fulfilling one of its major campaign promises and urge the College to follow through on the bill’s provisions. Ranging from $10 to over $400, coursepacks can be exorbitantly expensive for students. Thus far in 2006, sourcebooks and coursepacks have costs students over $700,000, most of which is spent on Core courses. The financial burden raises questions of educational inequity, as some students are driven away from otherwise...
Procrastination-prone Harvardians just got another reminder, courtesy of the Harvard College Library (HCL), that their vice will not be tolerated in the libraries any time soon. The next last-minute dash to Lamont to take out that never-purchased coursepack better not run over the mandated borrowing limits for on-reserve items, lest the violator fall victim to the recent 100 percent hike in per-minute fines. On Feb. 1, all reserve-holding libraries—Cabot, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Littauer, Loeb Music, Tozzer, and the Quad—upped the penalty for late items from...
...Though the Quad recently added Saturday hours this fall and increased its coursepack reserves, complaints persist about both issues. The Quad Library is only open until 1 a.m. from Monday to Wednesday, and closes at 10 p.m. on Thursday night...
Griping about sections is just about as tired—and tiresome—as lugging around that 400-page coursepack you’ve never opened. We all know your teaching fellow (TF) doesn’t speak English, we are all painfully familiar with those awkward silences, we know how awesome you are for mastering To the Lighthouse, albeit via Sparknotes, in under an hour...