Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...students have just voted to add a layer to the Harvard administration, our own personal student administration, which will handle student complaints about the services the adult administration provides. They will eek out small crumbs for us from those who hold tight the purse-strings, crumbs that will, ostensibly, make us a happier, wiser student body...
Finally, undergraduates should consider the important roles that TFs play in their education. At Yale, the TF union was the primary voice in favor of small section sizes, English-language training for foreign TFs and improved teacher training overall. Better working conditions for graduate students mean better classroom conditions for undergraduates. Undergraduates help themselves when they champion TF concerns...
Quite frankly, this contract is so stupendous that the traditional arguments brought against excessive spending will no longer offer solace to the small market teams. For the past few years, one only needed to look at the antics of Peter Angelos and the Baltimore Orioles and realize that money does not buy success. And even as the payroll of the vaunted New York Yankees ratcheted ever skyward, at least Yankee fans could point to the core of their team as homegrown--Andy Pettite, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams and, of course, Jeter...
...fact is, not only cannot the small market teams not compete with expenditures of $252 million, even the mid-size teams cannot conjure up this kind of cash. Entire teams are not worth that much. ESPN.com broke it down: Rodriguez' contract would be the 13th most valuable baseball franchise. It would rank fifth in the NBA; only the New York Rangers are more dear in the NHL. At least it falls $50 million short of the poorest NFL team...
...able to make the calculus before a season that since they can't win with a payroll of $45 million, they should just pare it down to $15 million and take their chances. It forces every team in the league to compete. And if your market is too small to meet this burden, then it is time to either fold up shop or move...