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...campus-wide events" that the staff is referring to, I would be interested in having them explain exactly what events they are referring to. The truth is, because of the scarcity of funds, these events and the holiday shuttles to Logan Airport have comprised almost the entirety of the council's campus-wide events over the past four years...
Over the past years, the council has steadily become a more professional and trustworthy organization. Over the last six years, the efforts and leadership of council members have elevated the council's ability to make real changes on behalf of the student body. The discovery of the missing $40,000 was a direct result of the council's new professionalism, in particular the conduct of an internal review of the council's books and the institution of better financial controls...
Argue for or against the term-bill increase to your heart's content. Argue that only downsizing the council will allow the council to obtain the representativeness that it needs. Ask a representative to propose that the question of council downsizing be administered by referendum at the same time as that of the term-bill increase. Argue about whether increased funding should go towards student groups or towards large campus-wide events. But don't use baseless assertions about the success of the council's events and the council's competence without supporting your statements in some meaningful...
...writer is the former vice president of the council and a current council House representative...
...weight and feel that he is unlikely to get proper mental-health care in prison. "It's throwing away a life without regard for the possibility that Kinkel could change or that the circumstances that led to this could be mediated," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. But Jennifer Alldredge, a student shot by Kinkel, is unmoved: "I don't see how you could ever justify someone who did this being outside and free to do this again," she says...