[1463] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: urop cuts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Tue Sep 30 10:36:55 2003
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:34:18 -0400
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
To: MIT-Talk@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <E1A4L0F-00006B-00@altoids.mit.edu> (Anne Hunter's message of
"Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:57:23 -0400")
Anne Hunter <anneh@eecs.mit.edu> writes:
> I've heard Harvard's had huge endowment losses and is shutting down
> some libraries, limiting hours on others, having massive layoffs in
> their museums, etc. Definitely affecting student services.
I've definitely seen claims that the Harvard endowment is coming
back. Google finds the _Harvard Gazette_ (apparently their equivalent
of _Tech Talk_) claiming that their endowment gained 12.5% last year;
see http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/09.25/15-endow.html.
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David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
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