When Christina M. Tedesco received word about the pay cut last fall, her first reaction was, “Oh my God, I have to call my coworker Mark.”
Many of her colleagues at the Harvard Art Museums, where Tedesco works as an attendant, do not have computers or cannot access their work emails from home. She had to call them to break the news: Harvard had decided to cut their wages already the lowest of any union at the University by 30 percent, and she wasn’t sure for how long museum employees would continue to be paid at all.
Soon afterward, panic set in. “It’s very unsettling to not know if you really have a job or not, if the museum is going to lay you off in a few months,” Tedesco says. “It creates a constant environment of anxiety.”
Harvard undergraduates residing on campus said they were surprised and excited after the Dean of Students Office announced the College would move into âLevel 3: Yellowâ of its campus reopening plan Monday.
In December, the College announced a color-coded system to indicate the different phases of campus reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the most restrictive campus guidelines occurring under âLevel 0: Purpleâ and the least restrictive under âLevel 5: Green.â
In Level Three, students can reserve slots for individual use at common spaces, such as the Smith Campus Center, Memorial Hall, Malkin Athletic Center, and the Student Organization Center at Hilles. In addition, each student can host another on-campus student in their suite and will be allowed to travel within a 10-mile radius of campus.
As the United States enters the most dire stage of the coronavirus pandemic yet, the Ivy League told student-athletes and coaches in a Thursday email that it has yet to determine whether the spring sports season will occur.
âUnfortunately, the current trends of the virus have not improved, and in fact have gotten worse,â league officials wrote in the update. âStudents should understand that there must be significant changes in the state of the pandemic before competition becomes feasible and that a number of factors are outside institutional control.â
âShould competition become feasible this term it will, at best, result in an abbreviated, and likely significantly curtailed, competition schedule,â the update added.
Maryland s Katie Benzan isn t afraid to shoot and isn t used to missing
Kareem Copeland, The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2020
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Maryland guard Katie Benzan launches a three-pointer against Towson this month.Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey.
The driveway battles began when the kids were in elementary school. Little Katie Benzan would pair up with her father, John, in the Boston suburb of Wellesley, Mass., for showdowns against her older brother, Pat, and her mother, Kim. These weren t simply a fun way for the family to get exercise.
Competitive basketball was a way of life in the Benzan household. Kim was a point guard at Holy Cross before she coached high school and AAU basketball for years. John was a manager on the men s team at Holy Cross, where they met. Those two-on-two confrontations could get intense, and a little blood or a few tears were not uncommon.