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...privilege to study with Skip Gates and Stephen Greenblatt and Michael Sandel—by offering the experience to anyone who signs up, students might feel slightly duped, despite it having no direct effect on them?MJS: I don’t think you should worry that giving others access to distance learning will somehow dilute or devalue the college experience. Even at its best, distance learning can’t replace what goes on when students and teachers gather, in-person, in the classroom, in a lab, or around a seminar table. If it can, then something is wrong...
...Nelson and Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd, five members of the UC Executive Board requested a meeting with the Office of General Counsel to discuss the legality of the party fund program. UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ‘09 said that without access to the Office of General Counsel, the UC is at a disadvantage in negotiations with the administration because they do not know if the party grant program is violating the law. Nelson and Kidd could not be reached for comment yesterday. Interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam, who signed...
...hear on Wednesday. The Administration is siding with Jose Ernesto Medellin and his lawyers, arguing that he along with 50 other Mexican nationals should have their convictions reviewed because, in what the International Court has ruled a violation of a treaty signed by the U.S., they were not offered access to Mexican consular officials after their arrest...
...worry about their finances. That alone makes the ones with at least a modicum of participation worth protecting, even at a slight burden to the Athletics Department. The non-financial requirements of club athletes—finding their own coaches, scheduling their own games, and arranging for facility access, for example—become incredibly, and often prohibitively, demanding. While there are good reasons for a JV team to switch to club status, such as more flexibility in scheduling games and practices and not having to deal with NCAA bureaucracy, the Department of Athletics should not pressure teams with committed...
...However, the Red Cross's findings on U.S. detainee treatment have leaked repeatedly, presumably from opponents of the Administration's interrogation techniques who had access to them. In those reports, the ICRC has consistently and repeatedly asserted that some U.S. techniques amount to torture. ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal declined to comment on the reports but said, "The dialogue between the ICRC and the U.S. on all matters of detention has always been very vigorous. Where we felt that there were things that needed to be addressed...