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Other factors affect the ice sheet's stability. One of the most important is the balance between the rate at which the ice sheet is growing (because of snowfall) and the rate at which it is shrinking. An ice sheet is, in essence, a viscous plateau, and under the burden of its own weight it is ever so slowly sliding downhill. Because of variations in underlying terrain, however, its slide is not uniform. In the Ross Sea sector, for example, ice is most efficiently conveyed out of the ice sheet's interior by ice streams, which spill onto the Ross...
Preregistration inherently works to limit the amount of classes that students will visit. The administrative burden of filing add/drop forms may limit students’ interest in enrolling in many classes. Since the signatures of professors, advisers, or both, will still be required on these forms, preregistration will add a level of bureaucracy to the first week of classes. Students wishing to change all four of their courses—as presently happens quite often—would need to file eight forms, secure four professors’ signatures and visit their concentration advisers. Simultaneously, students may feel unspoken obligations...
Asking students to make choices about their next semester without having even finished the midterms for the current one is inherently unfair. Students already have intense mid-semester workloads; this proposal would further burden them with researching and choosing classes for a semester that is still two vacations away. Furthermore, success—or lack thereof—in the current semester commonly dictates the classes one takes in the next. For instance, first-years often decide their concentration based how well they enjoy their fall classes. Preregistration undermines the effectiveness of student decisions by providing insufficient information about their...
...potentially ease the suffering of millions of people. But the extent of these proposals are miniscule next to Bush’s budget cuts. In effect, they are just sugar-coating a nonsensical and unfair economic platform that will disproportionately benefit the richest Americans and place a fiscal burden on future generations who will be forced to deal with today’s rising debt...
...taxes on stock dividends paid to investors. But because stock owners are disproportionally wealthy, under this new proposal, the richest one percent of Americans would be granted more tax relief than the bottom 95 percent of taxpayers combined. Surely, making the first perogative in tax cuts easing the burden of the rich is not the most effective way to aid citizens who are in dire need of economic relief. Ironically, putting money in the hands of the poorest Americans—who would spent it more quickly than the rich—would do more to boost demand and increase...