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...politics. "The [KMT] has become a very wealthy monster," says Huang Huang-hsiung, who has spent the past 10 years tracking party assets as an investigator for a government oversight agency. "It became impossible for anyone else to compete. Now we have the chance to remove the final barrier to Taiwan's transition to a full-fledged democracy...
...ordinary chain link fence just won’t do at the Graduate School of Design (GSD). So when Harvard broke ground this summer on an expansion of Gund Hall, the GSD erected a barrier more befitting a modern art museum than a construction site. The treated plywood fence undulates in and out towards passersby on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets. Orange support posts both add color and denote caution. Gaps in the fence give the passing pedestrian multiple views of the puddles of water and mountains of gravel inside...
...fence is the winner of a cash-prize competition last spring. Ten teams composed of GSD students and alumni submitted designs meant to ensure the safety of workers and the public, provide a sound barrier from construction for residents and students and exploit the vast artistic potential of a construction fence. A jury composed of GSD faculty members, construction representatives and a neighborhood representative chose Susie Sanchez, Kiernan Mathews, Michael Goorevich, G. Russell Fason and Jason Casero’s fence proposal. Designed in one week and built over the summer, the fence manipulates light and color to give...
Even if preregistration is not binding, having to add and drop courses will always create a barrier for students who want to switch classes. Preregistration would also discourage students from visiting a wide range of courses during the first week of classes, resulting in students taking less risks with their course selection and sticking to safer, impersonal intro-style classes. And preregistration would encourage professors to start teaching actual course material from day one, making it difficult for students to catch up if they join the class in the second week...
...this way, students would be provided ahead of time much of the knowledge usually only available during shopping period, and their choices would be more accurate, allowing the registrar to select more appropriate classrooms and professors to hire an adequate number of TFs. And there would still be no barrier to switching classes over shopping period...