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Rumblings around campus suggest that a faculty member will offer to amend the legislation. If no one does, however, we hope that the Faculty will reject the current legislation. Holding TFs hostage is an unfortunate cost to pay, but one well worth paying if it leads to a system where all professors’ teaching abilities are evaluated by students...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: TFs vs. Professors | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...Massachusetts must follow the lead of states such as New Jersey and amend its Constitution to make the position of attorney general one that is appointed by the governor. Until then, our attorney generals will chow down on Oysters Rockefeller with the same executives they investigate for years to come...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Filling the Coffers | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...risk that the panel's proposals would be obsolete before consensus was reached. "It overshadowed everything," says an aide to one member. "They were constantly dealing with new developments over there." Baker turned up last Monday with a draft report he wanted panel members to consider or amend and then get into the President's hands. Democrats led by Hamilton, Perry and Leon Panetta, Clinton's ex--chief of staff, were adamant that the report recommend a firm starting point for troop withdrawals. When the Republicans again refused, members agreed on language that would leave the date vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Looks for an Exit | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...Western democracies. After all, central tenets of a Western, liberal education include a striving towards objectivity as well as the encouraging of independent enquiry among students. Unfortunately, my current enrollment in a seminar taught at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has forced me to amend this view. The seminar, entitled “U.S. Hegemony and International Law” and taught by Professor Shirley Scott, consists of weekly classes in which U.S. foreign policy is routinely lambasted. Should the legality of a U.S. action be dubious under international law, it will indubitably be viewed...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Terror in the Classroom | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...proposal will amend the Michigan constitution to “ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.” And the question’s definition of public institutions is all-encompassing, including “state government, local governments, public colleges and universities, community colleges and school districts.” The results of this amendment could be disastrous to the missions of Michigan’s state institutions...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Taking Away the Salad Bowl | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

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