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More than two-thirds of full-time St. John's employees have been offered buyouts, according to University officials. At the end of January, University President Rev. Donald J. Harrington sent an internal e-mail stating full-time St. John's employees would be receiving Voluntary Separation Offers in an effort to maintain a balanced budget.
The long-awaited Global Language and Culture Center, designed to help St. John's students further their study of foreign languages, opened its doors in the renovated Council Hall this week.
Members of Haraya, the Pan-African Students Coalition, brought Lorainne Hansberry's award-winning play, A Raisin in the Sun, to life at St. John's over the weekend. The event, a part of this year's Black History Month celebration at the University, was the first play organized by the group in its history.
In the face of ongoing budget cuts, one student organization wants to take on the MTA in an effort to extend public transportation discounts to St John's commuters. According to Campus Activies, roughly 83 percent of St. John's students are commuter students.
St. John's will be changing the class schedule format in the fall semester, according to an e-mail sent out Monday from University President Rev. Donald J. Harrington. In the e-mail, Harrington explains the need to alter the current schedule "to a more flexible format of Monday/Thursday and Tuesday/Friday.
Kirk Kraeutler, assistant foreign editor at the New York Times, spoke to students Tuesday, Feb. 9 in Bent Hall about the his experience covering Afghanistan, Pakistan, and South Asia. Over the past decade, Kraeutler has had several bylines in the travel section of the Times.
Jamaica High School will close its doors due to poor performance after more than 100 years of educating the community. The city proposed that the school, located only a few minutes from St. John's at 167-01 Gothic Drive, stop accepting ninth grade students in 2010 and then slowly phase out the enrolled students.
Plans to renovate the second floor of the University's library, as well as other small projects have been "put on hold," according to a University official. The Humanities Center, located on the second floor of St. Augustine Hall, was originally scheduled to open in fall 2009.
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