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Currently the chair of the Financial Committee, the branch of the UC charged with disbursing funds to student groups, Sarafa is known within the Council for his collaboration on projects that include universal swipecard access to freshman dorms, which he and Sundquist spearheaded while still underclassmen. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...critical means of congressional oversight, IGs have never been particularly popular with the executive branch. Virtually every federal agency testified against the draft IG Act legislation, with the Justice Department arguing it constitutionally violated the separation of powers. Two years later the Reagan Administration tried to eliminate the system altogether, and since then all administrations have tried gaming the system to avoid embarrassments...
...field conditions, says Frederick Hitz, CIA IG from 1990 1998 and now a lecturer in public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. "That accusation is leveled at every IG; I got it in spades," he recalls, even though he began his career in the clandestine branch, running spies in West Africa...
Kennedy School of Government professor David R. Gergen, an adviser to Clinton while Rubin and Summers were in the executive branch, said the Citigroup position should not affect Rubin’s Harvard role...
...others on the UC have been vocal about their ambitions for the upcoming election, and it appears unlikely that the council’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC)—the advocacy branch whose chair has gone on to win the top post in four of the past five elections—will yield a presidential candidate this year. Current SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09, who succeeded current UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 in that post, has insisted that he will...