In your most recent edition, an article points out that HLS has made it very difficult for students to pick their own classes on a timely basis. The article explains that for some reason known only to the under-employed HLS staff, students are forced to select their courses almost a year before they take them, making the classes irrelevant, and often reflective of a passing interest rather than a true vocational passion.
As an HLS graduate, I couldn't agree more with this well written article. One must wonder why the HLS staff so consistently places its own interests above those of its customers (the students). Let's explore other ways in which this trend also exhibits itself:
1) Why does the HLS staff sit on hundreds of millions of dollars of cash, and then turn around and consistently jack up tuition beyond the rate of inflation?
2) Why does the HLS staff provide the best parking spaces for the faculty, when students and their vehicles have the status of the homeless?
3) Why does the HLS staff protect hundreds of millions of dollars in endowment, while forcing students to take on 100,000 dollars in debt in 3 years, which when interest is added in, will force the students to pay back 200,000 dollars over the first 10 years after they graduate?
4) Why does HLS pay faculty a fortune, while at the same time providing poverty wages for those employees of HLS who are not faculty members?
5) Why does HLS sit on hundreds of millions of dollars, when its students live in dorm rooms that have all the luxury of an orphanage?
6) Why does HLS not care more about its students or its graduates?
7) Why don't the students do something about the situation?
Year after year, students and graduates plea for redress of their grievances, and time and again the HLS staff turns a deaf ear to their weeping! The ivy at HLS grows faster, than the HLS staff is willing to promote positive change! At some point in time, when the students of HLS are noticing their own tortured faces carved into the rock of Austin Hall's outer walls, will they not sorrow for their own destiny? (AND WHAT MIGHT BE THEIR DESTINY? ) A large law firm working 100 hours per week to pay back HLS debt? Their youthful brilliance fading in the withering light of windows which cannot be opened? Their hands veined stained with the exhaustion of too many computer keyboards? Their eyes permanently etched in red, from too much work, while the world wanders around them having a real life? The joy they will watch on the faces of a stranger's children; when their own children are again deferred? A life that could have been great before HLS debt drowned the baby in the bath?
Enough! The destiny of HLS is in all of our hands; the future ought not be as dim as the past has been. If enough students demand peaceful change from the indifferent HLS staff, will not the soft winds of hope blow upon our sorrowful campus? Cannot we advocate for ourselves, if we are ever to advocate successfully for others?
Please don't accept the low expectations that the HLS staff has set for HLS. We can do better!
Fair Winds and Following Seas,
Charles Facktor HLS Class of 1990
My wife's father is hessaby as in www.hessaby.com (they stole his cash and put it there) and my mother-in-law family is related by marriage tot the Pakravans., who headed the SAVAKPan Am was nicknamed PanIran as the Shah's family was the largest shareholder. I have extreme amount of details of exactly was going on
from the Iranians wanting him to return their assets to other coup attempts to 6 months before the Shah son pretended he was bankrupt in a public trial, to my wifes relative coming to our house talking about the coup and we did not know they were in Washington DC, to the Iran Contra hearings trial that was going to start Feb 20 th, 1989 to the tipping of the coup to the Iranian govt, ,to something in writing I can prove the coup to the Salamon Rushtie Feb 14th insult to islam to get the people on the street to avoid the coup to the Iranian govt announcement of a coup by 'dissent mullahs' announced at the time to the negiotations between the Bush people involved pretending they were going to make a deal to the 'nice' stories plant in US newspapers at the time (including the Post) as part of the negotation to the fact the bomb had to placed out of London based on the flight path as I worked at USAir at the time creating the flight plans for the 'planes to fly themselves' to overt CIA agents around me at the time to the fact that Bollier, the guy who made the timer for the bomb's wide was IRANIAN and the Libyans told me and said they were not allowed to say... there were 3 witness only.. the main one was trashed.. Bollier and a guy whom said he soldm the Libyan a suitcase in Malta.. hence, one the suitcase guy would be left.. the Libyans did not put up a defence in exchange for evidence to trash the main witness on the stand to what an overt CIA agent told me in the US 4 years later.. etc. etc and the details of several coups to the new World bank (my wie's cousin involved who used to work at the work bank)and US loans starting May 1990 to Iran to the fact that PANAm was shut down 18 months later as they thought it would be targeted again because of the Shah connection (the US airlines go in and out of bankruptcy all the time - this was the one of the first US airlines - an ICON) etc
I also know where the Iranian govt officials have money in the US, Canada and UK; the back door dealing etccall me for details.. Barry Lanza 00 44 1786831554.. My father-in-law was a convicted spy given amnesty