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...late-night ridership recently led University Hall to consider scaling back service to 3 a.m. or 2 a.m. But faced with a volley of student e-mails imploring them to keep the shuttles running, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 last week wisely decided, in spite of the high cost, to maintain weekday late night shuttle service for the rest of the school year...
...first glance, Gross and McLoughlin seemed to have a reasonable justification for, at the very least, scaling back the weekday shuttles. Unlike the late-night weekend shuttles, whose ridership remains high well into the early morning, shuttles on Sunday through Thursday nights have been running nearly empty. According to McLoughlin, an average of one or two riders per day rode a weekday shuttle after 3 a.m. this semester, and the post-3 a.m. service was spared only because shuffling the drivers’ schedules would not have saved a substantial amount of money...
When Jigme Singye Wangchuck was crowned king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in 1972, he declared he was more concerned with ?Gross National Happiness? than with Gross Domestic Product. This probably didn?t come as a surprise to the forest-laden country?s 810,000 to 2.2 million (estimates vary greatly) residents, most of whom are poor subsistence farmers. Bhutan?s GDP is a mere $2.7 billion, but Wangchuck still maintains that economic growth does not necessarily lead to contentment, and instead focuses on the four pillars of GNH: economic self-reliance, a pristine environment, the preservation and promotion...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 appointed a committee in the fall of 2003 to cut back on alcohol abuse on campus. In a report this fall, the committee recommended the creation of a post to oversee alcohol-related issues at the College and to make Harvard’s drinking policies clear to students...
...according to the World Bank, aid to developing countries by developed countries has fallen 20 percent since 1990. Developed countries, including the United States, are only giving 0.2 percent of their gross domestic product in international aid, far short of the 0.7 percent pledge that the UN estimates would halve world hunger...