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...they sparked countless initiatives??though initiatives less focused on immediate and public ‘gratification’ or ‘quick-fixes’ than on carefully crafted structural and policy changes which seemed to promise significant long-term benefit to the College and its students...
...coordinating academic work across disciplines and schools requires exactly the support an intermediary administration provides. And then there’s Allston, the first University-wide project to be planned and budgeted as a single entity. Without a president who will continue to push forward on these sorts of initiatives??initiatives that cannot help but dictate academic priorities—Harvard will stagnate. So where does that leave us? Administrators can be uninformed and inflexible, and faculties can be self-interested and shortsighted. I don’t want Summers writing the syllabi for new Harvard courses...
Domestically, we are faced with two enormous challenges that will plague our children and grandchildren if left untackled: Social Security and healthcare costs. I have proposed two privatized initiatives??individually invested Social Security accounts and the 2003 Medicare Reform Bill—as attempts to alleviate those problems. However, as this month has shown, the implementation of the Medicare prescription drug plan has met many logistical challenges...
...Reiterating the views of many in the higher education community, Day, the Harvard official, said in an interview last month that money cut from certain aspects of the student loan program should have gone to fund education initiatives??not toward deficit reduction or other measures such as tax cuts...
...Lions’ eighth straight loss of the season after beginning the year 2-0. In three seasons with Columbia, Shoop posted a record of 7-23. In the press conference, Murphy said that the Columbia athletic department has been formulating “short-, mid- and long-term initiatives?? to improve the infrastructure of the football program. The Lions have never won the league title outright, and only once shared the crown (with Harvard in 1961). —THE CRIMSON STAFF