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Both the FAS and the Medical School recently called for 10-15 percent reductions in their budgets, and just two days ago, top FAS deans told department chairs to pause the majority of current searches for tenure-track and tenured faculty...
...seen our economy so negatively affected by the current financial crisis—I’m glad we decided we were not expert enough to risk gambling with student money. When University President Drew G. Faust announced that the value of our endowment had dropped precipitously by 22 percent since its June 30 estimate of $36.9 billion, the reality of the crisis hit home. Given that approximately one-third of the University’s operating budget is derived from the payout of the annual interest generated from the endowment and that tuition and donation income are expected...
...questionnaire, which was given earlier this month with results released Wednesday, allowed students to rank various aspects of their dining experiences on a spectrum of relative importance. As past surveys have found, students’ foremost concerns remained related to food and hygiene, with 96 percent of respondents citing the taste of the food as very important, followed by its freshness (86 percent), and the cleanliness of plates and utensils (81 percent). However, only 42 percent of students called the sustainability of their food very or somewhat important, indicative of what Dining Services’ Executive Director Ted A. Mayer...
Evan D. D’Avolio ’12 agreed with the survey’s results, which found that 81 percent of students made food choices based on taste as opposed to 12 percent based on environment. “I like good food. I’d rather the food taste good than be sustainable,” he said...
According to the results of the survey, 21 percent of respondents called their knowledge of sustainable foods very or somewhat complete, a response that Kogan said was “a bit disconcerting...