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...November, all student groups will be required to re-register online, which will create a database containing contact information for officers and the group bylaws. While this has been the policy in the past, it has not always been strictly monitored by the College, McLoughlin said. In the past, he said, some student groups had lost copies of their bylaws and in some cases lost track of their bank account information...
...will enable the College to determine which organizations have become “defunct,” in which case the College will contact the members and work to reform the group, McLoughlin said...
...Hmong, but a Lao trader who for years made a comfortable living selling supplies to remote mountain communities around Phonsavanh. "He was very well liked and respected," says a villager in the district. "He always helped people out if he could." In 1993, says Va Char, a Hmong business contact told him about a remote community in the jungle that needed supplies. "I had never been political until I went to the jungle," he says. "I went there carrying salt and shoes, expecting to find a normal mountain village. Instead I was faced with thousands of people, screaming from hunger...
...into a network that occasionally ferried supplies to the Hmong. In 1997, he was arrested and jailed for two years. "I was so angry," he said. "I was helping people who were suffering, who were not bad. Children were dying. It was not right." Released in 1999, he made contact with the Fact Finding Commission, a Hmong human-rights group in the U.S., which was trying to make contact with the Hmong trapped in the mountains. They supplied Va Char with a video camera to record what...
...faith here has many moods. Some mosques bar non-Muslim visitors; others welcome them. Some pesantren strictly limit contact with strangers, Western music or the mass media, while others let students mingle freely with visitors. And whether it's the pesantren where a Sharon Stone movie is hurriedly replaced with a prayer video when visitors arrive, or the one where teenage girls can't leave their dormitories unveiled but clutter their rooms with pictures of American pop stars, the outside world seeps in. In Java, the call to prayer echoes across highways on which unveiled women ride motorbikes in Western...