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Echoing Bergren’s comments, Hammonds says figuring out how J-Term can best work for Harvard will be a gradual process...
History Department Chair Lizabeth Cohen says that graduate students in her department, too, did “incredibly well” this year, despite the tough job market. Many students were able to procure tenure-track jobs, postdoctoral fellowships, and short-term visiting lectureships, according to Cohen...
...compostable materials at the popular Fly-By eatery in the basement of Memorial Hall, and encouraging students to recycle, leading to a high 55 percent campus-wide recycling rate. We are also proud that Harvard instituted its new Green Building Guidelines for projects costing over $5 million. Such long-term commitments—which have brought the University wide recognition for leadership in the green arena—are worthwhile because they promote habits of sustainability among students and aim to protect the environment. We are also appreciative of the new community garden; the centrally-located plot of land...
...semester exams after winter break, opting instead to do away with intersession, start and end the school year earlier, and standardize its schedule with those of most other American universities. Although we were originally positive about the calendar change, we were disappointed by the lack of programming over J-Term, as what actually came to fruition was rather different than what was originally planned. We hope that, in the future, more options will be available to students so that they are not forced to stay at home for five weeks...
...halfway through the fall semester, they had already surpassed the amount of legislation passed by the previous Council in one semester. They had fought for the ethnic studies secondary, established new lines of student outreach, and made progress on projects such as J-Term and social grants...