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The Harvard Graduate Council reviewed new resolutions and reflected on challenges wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic during its final public meeting of the academic year on Monday.
Both the resolutions introduced at the meeting aim to ease the financial and mental burdens facing graduate students as a result of the pandemic.
One resolution, brought by Graduate School of Education student Said Bilani, among others, advocated for the use of the Council’s One Harvard Catalyst Fund to provide “financial support to students challenged by the circumstances of the Pandemic.”
The other resolution, organized by Rutvij Merchant, a student at the School of Public Health, presented a slew of recommendations including the extension of University emails for 2021 graduates for at least two years after graduation. The resolution, in response to the intersectional challenges graduate students have faced during the pandemic, posits that access to Harvard emails will assist recent graduates with
Verizon Outage Hits East Coast As Users Begin Work
Verizon users across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic began experiencing internet issues or outages on Wednesday morning. By Gina Narcisi March 03, 2021, 12:33 PM EST
Service provider giant Verizon experienced an internet outage on Wednesday morning, right as the East Coast began signing on to telework or distance-learn.
Reports of internet connectivity issues began rolling in a little after 8 a.m. ET on Wednesday. The Verizon outage, according to Downdetector.com, impacted parts of Washington D.C. and several states, including Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
A Verizon spokesman told CRN that there was an “issue impacting internet routing for some of our customers. The issue has since been resolved.”
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Harvardâs Undergraduate Council launched a weeklong campaign last month to support a project aimed at explaining how the University collects and uses student data.
The campaign â dubbed the Transparency Project â started as a final project created by Yousuf Bakshi â23 and Anjali Chakradhar â23 in the class Computer Science 105: âPrivacy and Technology,â taught by Computer Science professor James âJimâ H. Waldo. Bakshi and Chakradhar are Council members who represent Mather House and Cabot House, respectively.
The project â a collaboration with newly formed club Harvard Undergraduate Initiative for Technology and Society â aimed to bolster student awareness about data privacy, Chakradhar said.
âWe want to help build the next generation of data-aware citizens who can then go on to advocate for themselves and other people,â Chakradhar said. âWe thought that the best place to start was right here.â