MIT Plans To Shut Part Of Campus Temporarily
Associated Press,
The Day,
Dec 01, 2003
When institutions such as MIT begin to have budget problems, you know the system is groaning and creaking at the joints. And MIT's issues may be more significant than they let on: the university "will shut down part of its campus over the holidays, cut spending and eliminate hundreds of jobs to close a looming budget shortfall blamed on higher expenses and lower-than-expected returns on its endowment. The university has asked staff and students to save costs in small ways, such as turning down the heat, using e-mail instead of regular mail, bringing brown-bag lunches to departmental meetings, and writing fewer checks, which cost 70 cents each." Brown-bag lunches to departmental meetings? How the mighty have fallen.
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