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...prevent the use of UC funds for underage drinking. I had a party when I turned 20, and even though I invited Ryan Petersen, he didn’t come. Had he or one of his peers had the time to come to my party, I would have spent the evening engaged in meaningful conversation. Instead, I chugged boxed wine in the back of the room and wondered how he fits into such tight pants on a daily basis. It is equally hard to slip into and zip up the fly of the idea that large, overcrowded events should...
...five members of the ad hoc committee assembled to advise Rudenstine “showed bias, conflict of interest, or lack of expertise.” Later that year, however, a Harvard investigation found Berkowitz’s allegations “clearly without merit.” Berkowitz spent over a year wrangling with the grievance process., which he felt was also compromised. In March of 2000, Berkowitz sued Harvard for breach of contract. His petition was ultimately denied, but not before the case reached the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
...says Casey. “For a small department to conduct a senior search the process can be extraordinarily arduous and take an enormous amount of time. There’s a limit to the capacity of a faculty to search.” And the time spent recruiting faculty may take away from the academic pursuits of the members of search committees...
...think we all did ok but we were spent from the Saturday night game,” Leone said...
Citing booming wealth at universities across the country even as college tuition continues to rise, the U.S. Senate is considering ways to regulate university endowments. The move brought a rebuke from Harvard, which insisted that Congress should not dictate how university funds are spent. At a Finance Committee hearing on Wednesday, senators considered measures including the repeal of university endowments’ tax-exempt status and mandating minimum yearly payouts to help lower tuition costs. The discussion at last week’s hearing focused on the spectacular growth of university endowments, which collectively increased by 17.7 percent to dollars...