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...Crimson reported in April that Kirkland House library cut three student positions, while Quincy House implemented a new electronic access system to reduce the need for employees. In addition, Mather House library may also reduce its number of employees in the future, according to library tutor Joseph S. Ronayne...
...Teachers and administrators in several departments also confirmed that they would not be reducing undergraduate employment. Computer Science 50 Professor David J. Malan ’99 says he plans to hire the same number of students this year as last year, while Chair of the Mathematics Department Shing-Tung Yau says he had not been informed of any need to cut undergraduate instructors...
...June 4 news article "Students Feel the Pinch" incorrectly implied that the fact that a smaller number of student tutors were hired at the Writing Center resulted from a reduction in the Center's budget. In fact, the reduction in new hires only reflected a smaller number of tutors graduating that particular year, according to Writing Center Director Jane Rosenzweig, who said there are no plans to reduce the budget for tutors at the Writing Center...
...temporary suspension of transfer admissions was explained last March as the result of overcrowded upperclass Houses that, when taking into account the number of students who would already be living in the Houses in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 academic years, could not feasibly take on the burden of any more students. Could the school not even accept 12 transfer students per year? That would amount to a grand total of one additional resident of each House...
...While we are all intimately familiar with the overcrowded nature of many or most of the Houses, the value of having a transfer program outweighs the very small number of extra beds gained by not having one, a number that does not actually ease overcrowding to any considerable degree. Moreover, there are some extra beds here and there in the Houses; I lived this year with four other people in what is typically a six-person suite. I would have happily sacrificed having two common rooms for the continuation of the transfer program. Certainly I recognize that my living situation...