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...other members of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling include Frances G. Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council; Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Terry D. Garcia, excutive vice president for mission programs for the National Geographic Society; and Frances Ulmer, chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage...
Antunes says Council members have made a conscious choice to put the fall’s events behind them...
Many representatives feared the drama of the election had significantly damaged the UC’s reputation. Some were especially upset because they felt the events did not reflect the current Council, but were rather a product of former members who had been involved in the “partisan politics of last year,” according to Antunes...
Bowman, who was re-certified as the winning candidate by a vote of the Council the following week, says that the controversy surrounding the election has made it even more important for representatives to focus on their projects rather than dwell on past struggles to “repair the UC’s image...
According to a survey conducted by the Student Relations Committee to assess student opinion and the efficacy of the Council’s projects during the spring semester, 40 percent of students reported having a positive impression of the Council...