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...saying goes, though, it’s always darkest before Fleet Foxes plays “Sun It Rises.” And so, to my disbelief, the College Events Board (CEB) deigned to reach down and pull me, Lazarus-like, out from the abyss of despair by inviting Ratatat to this year’s Yardfest. All at once I felt like maybe I wouldn’t have to spend my whole postgraduate life telling girls at concerts that I went to Brown...
With just a month left before the end of the spring term, time is dwindling if the Ad Board Review Committee’s report is to be implemented by the end of this academic year. The report—which addresses potential changes to the Administrative Board, the College’s main disciplinary body—was presented to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds on March 6. Many of the suggestions proposed by the report, including any potential changes to the disciplinary policy appearing in the Student Handbook, must be presented to the Faculty Council...
...Bersin's seven-year term as San Diego education superintendent - at the time one of the longest in the nation - was notable for the vehement opposition it drew from teacher unions and school board members. Both groups decried Bersin's "Blueprint for Student Success" plan - which placed an emphasis on basic math and reading programs and a single curriculum - as limiting (and even, said some extreme critics, "fascistic"). By the time he left, a huge rift had opened between teachers and San Diego principals, over 80% of which he hired during his term...
...myself failing to listen seriously to my opponents ... That has never happened before to me, and I find it unacceptable in myself." - during a first-ever "state of the district" address delivered while superintendent. Near the end of his tenure, Bersin's opponents in the teachers union and school board were attacking him as often as possible. (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...
...praise. When Obama said that Chávez aids Colombia's Marxist guerrilla violence (which Chávez in fact has renounced), the Venezuelan President shot back that Obama had "the same stench" as Bush. But when the U.S. Coast Guard called Venezuelan authorities last week for permission to board a Venezuelan boat involved in a cocaine bust, Chávez called it a "positive signal that never would have happened" under Bush...