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...possible to the existing River Houses. A student center should be built sooner rather than later, and it needs to be centrally located. In the meantime, social space on the current campus should be expanded and renovated.The UC should also be putting pressure on the University to address faculty accountability and pedagogy. A position paper “On Better Teaching and Learning” was passed in March, focusing on shortcomings in the teaching fellows (TF) program. The UC has not spoken up on the issue since, and has not addressed the more important question of faculty teaching...
Ride-sharing sites like Ridester have tried to alleviate safety concerns by requiring users to register and instituting a feedback system in which passengers can rate the quality of their driver. The site also offers an escrow account that holds a passenger's carpooling fee until the transaction is completed. It's no guarantee, admits Jake Boshernitzan, CEO of Ridester. "We are not able to ensure the safety of our riders, just like an online-dating site can't guarantee the safety of someone you meet," he says...
...playing field has started to change. For one thing, the big airlines aren't that big anymore. They have been weakened by competition and can no longer use cutthroat pricing to scare off newer, low-fare airlines like AirTran, Frontier and JetBlue. In fact, low-cost carriers (LCCs) now account for 25% of all airline traffic, up from 10% five years ago, which has helped drive down fares. Last August, low-cost king Southwest Airlines carried more passengers than any other U.S. airline, the first time an LCC has claimed the top spot...
...pull up their socks when it comes to customer service, once a Delta strength and always a US Airways weakness. And integrating the US Airways fleet, which favors European-made Airbus planes, with Delta's all-Boeing operation might be difficult. Also, the combined US Airways--Delta would account for 18% of the market, which competition watchdogs think is too high. But the government, which must approve the merger, gets a vote and presumably could order the merged carrier to sell off routes, and that might mean more opportunity for LCCs...
JUDITH REGAN, head of ReganBooks, defending her imprint's decision to publish If I Did It, former football star O.J. Simpson's controversial account of how, hypothetically, he could have killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman...