The New York Times reports on the painful cost-cutting measures that Harvard has undertaken in these terrible times:
Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweat suits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at faculty meetings.
No cookies?! No hot breakfasts?! No free sweat suits?! How will they ever survive?! Many thanks to the newspaper of record for such wonderful, hard-hitting coverage in these dire times.
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As much as I’d also like to make light of the cuts, I don’t understand why they cut hot breakfast. Shouldn’t the board money paid by students be directed only to the cost of food? So unless they cut the board fees, I don’t understand why they’re cutting food services.
On another note: It’s Harvard — they have more money than God — they can’t afford to heat up breakfast for their students?
Students still will get their bathrooms cleaned (by work-study classmates) in the dorms. Why not employ work-study students to scramble eggs in the morning?