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After the Harvard College Dean’s Office airlifted the UC out of its social programming nightmare last spring, furnishing the newly independent College Events Board (CEB) with a handsome budget all its own, the UC was left swimming in its lingering insecurities and its constituents’ cash...
...became painfully obvious that UC members’ ineptitude, not money, was the real issue, the council rightly jettisoned its social programming function—and a third of its membership—but was left with its termbill windfall intact. As it stands, the UC’s budget exceeds...
...Teaching Hotline” last month. Neither of these initiatives cost the UC anything, except its members’ time. But when it comes to a buy-back program for PRS clickers, or $1,700 for daily newspapers, the UC comes up empty. With a $400,000 budget, that kind of avarice is uncalled-for, particularly when the UC only has that money in the first place to fund campus-wide activities—which it no longer does at all—not to fund student groups ad infinitum...
...also would have allowed houses a certain freedom in choosing which newspaper was placed in dining halls. Neither aspect of the amendment proved to be enough to allay the concerns of the bill’s doubters. “We’re already on a very tight budget,” Jon T. Staff V ’10, a vice chair of the UC’s Financial Committee (FiCom), said, adding that the money earmarked for newspapers “will not go to cultural events” or “political rallies...
...Detroit's chronic deficit, however, has forced the mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to take officers off the street when more are needed. The state of Michigan, which is also facing a $2 billion budget deficit in the wake of the rapid downsizing of the state's automobile industry, is doing all it can to help Detroit, says Liz Boyd, spokeswoman for Governor Jennifer Granholm. The state has cracked down on offenders caught using guns in a crime and has worked to improve the coordination between federal, state, county and local police in and around Detroit. Cox says poverty and unemployment certainly...