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...committee structure and to put in place chairs who are in the position to make decisions,” Smith wrote. “I would like to clarify, however, that the role of committees is to provide recommendations to the deans, who then make decisions with the benefit of those recommendations. It is important that we not conflate the two activities, even if the dean empowered to act is participating in the work of the issue.” While many believed that the Dowling Report left more issues open than resolved, its recommendation that student-faculty committees...
While research funding should stay constant, what must come to an end is the accompanying gifts doctors sometimes receive from drug companies—money that provides no benefit to the research being done. These gifts, similar to political kickbacks, only work to bias professors and physicians in their care and teaching, thereby harming students and patients...
...partnering with the students behind ‘Get Out of Cambridge’ because it will benefit students,” said Daniel V. Kroop ’10, co-chair of the Student Relations Committee. “It’s a fully functional Web site that can provide student services better than the UC could...
...various parties promising to look after the two Slumdog children - including the movie's director, Danny Boyle - might benefit from the experience of the Salaam Baalak Trust, which was formed to look after the kids who were part of another Western-financed movie made in India. Set up by the producers of Salaam Bombay!, the trust looked after the welfare of 27 slum children who were part of Mira Nair's film about Mumbai street kids, which was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 20 years ago. With several thousand dollars raised at the film's premiere...
...counsels that while the producers of a movie "have a moral obligation to ensure that the kids benefit from their involvement with the movie, [they] cannot be held to ransom if the children are unable to make it in their lives." Almost everything, says Roy, depends on an individual child and how he or she matures after the spotlight shines elsewhere. The problems begin almost immediately. "When a slum child becomes famous and comes into money," says Roy, "all sorts of relatives start coming out of the woodwork and laying claims on the money and alleging all sorts of things...