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Smith’s plans were announced at yesterday’s Faculty Council meeting, where the members of the Faculty’s 18-member governing board discussed measures that are underway to address the worst economic crisis in decades...
Despite the heavy focus on finance, the council found room to discuss proposals for language reform. Romance languages professor Virginie Greene, the co-chair of the ad-hoc committee advising Smith on foreign languages, gave a presentation before the council concerning foreign language requirements...
...committee is scheduled to present its final recommendations to the Council in January for a vote...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) Election Commission lengthened this year’s presidential campaign from four days to 11, giving student government hopefuls an extra week to preen and be vetted before polls open on Dec. 12. In the face of last year’s dismal voter turnout, the extension of the campaigning period for UC candidates is undoubtedly a good thing. With a sufficiently large student body, it is hard for any candidate to be known widely enough on campus for all students to make an informed voting decision. Freshmen have had only three months to meet other students?...
...election in May, they will be hard pressed to find multilateral support for military intervention. The United Nations and most developed states will not support a repeat of Bush-like bellicosity, especially when it involves Saudi-financed Pakistan. In any case, China will most certainly block a Security Council vote to invade its closest partner in the region. And India is unlikely to go it alone with the risk of nuclear...