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...faculty hiring during the 2008-2009 academic year, according to FAS Dean Michael D. Smith, who recently proposed the measure. While University Hall’s desire to maintain a manageable faculty size in the face of administrative and programmatic changes is completely understandable, this hiring slow-down will ultimately disadvantage students who face gaping holes in their departments of choice. Harvard currently lacks sufficient tenured and tenure-track faculty to provide instruction in a number of fields—from philosophy to history to language studies. For example, the Philosophy department remains incomplete without course offerings in aesthetic philosophy...
...Pavlos Protopapas, a senior scientist at the IIC, said the slow-down in funding has hampered his projects, forcing him to rely on outside support. He added that the Initiative’s non-faculty members, like him, had been encouraged to pair up with faculty to get funding...
...Green seemed very comfortable with the Tigers’ slow-down style in Hanover. And it’s not simple enough to say that Dartmouth should struggle on the road, as it has already recorded a 10-point win at Columbia (the same environment that tripped both P’s up last weekend) and took Brown to two overtimes in Providence...
Krieger speculates that the recent slow-down with Allston planning stemmed from a realization that there was slightly more growth potential in Cambridge than previously thought...
...alliance—but not from France, whose modern history has been closely intertwined with that of the United States. Unfortunately, France may be looking out for its supplies of oil from Iraq. With a global turndown still underway, France is trying to avoid the inflationary pressures and production slow-down a war—or the serious threat of war—can cause...