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Gingo said he was unsure whether the ban would be enforced by physically blocking chimneys and fireplaces or simply by threat of disciplinary action. Lewis declined to comment...
Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman said that the ban was not provoked by any particular fire caused by fireplaces in the Houses...
Matthew W. Mahan ’05, who is chair of the Undergraduate Council’s Student Affairs Committee, said that concerns could be addressed without a ban on fireplaces...
Eliot House Master Lino Pertile—who student representatives said had vocally opposed the ban when it was discussed at the May meeting of the Committee on House Life—expressed a similar resigned acceptance...
...secondary tremor could come this week in a pair of University of Michigan cases involving the use of race as a factor in the admissions process. It's true that some colleges and universities around the country are already using creative ways of getting around a possible affirmative-action ban. But if the court bars or narrows affirmative action in admissions policies, it will nonetheless put a chill on many of those nontraditional efforts, while public schools nationwide will have to throw out the traditional ones as well. "The court has shown a distinct distaste for race-based remedies," says...