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FiCom has taken one small step to ameliorate the problem: whereas student groups could previously only be reimbursed after an event took place, they can now apply for money before the event and before funding runs out. But not all groups with May events will be able to work out the budget details by March, particularly if they have to coordinate with other outside organizations or guest speakers. Further, this change could just lead to money running out sooner, as every group rushes to submit its application before the pot runs...
...most important focus of mental health services should be their image problem. Given that students using resources already rate them highly, improving the resources’ image would have the single greatest impact on student mental health. Students may ultimately be responsible for perpetuating this negative reputation, but Harvard’s mental health system should take a proactive and aggressive approach to improving its name...
Neill added that another change, the delay in concentration choice deadline, poses a problem for her department...
Economics is the study of how society allocates its scarce resources. Perhaps some Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators should brush up on their Ec 10, because there seem to be some problems with resource allocation around Harvard. This time, the economics department has drawn the short straw and found its library space expropriated by an inefficient and imperious University Hall. The economics department has been hoping for a renovation of its aging Littauer Center since the early 1990s. Once the Government department moved out of half of Littauer and into its swanky, new $140 million Center for Government...
...today. The researchers found that gun ownership elevates the risk of suicide among all groups by a factor of 1.9, and as much as 2.4 among people under 20. “I hope [the study] will make people realize that suicide is in fact a preventable public health problem,” said Matthew Miller, an assistant professor of Health Policy and Management and lead author of the study. This was the first study to examine the relationship between household firearm ownership rates and successful suicide attempts on a national level, he said. Joe Waldron, the executive director...