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...elections in 2012 in favor of a vague promise to consider them in 2017 and 2020. Pro-democracy activists, impatient with the pace of reform and skeptical of Beijing's guarantees, carried banners denouncing the Chinese Communist Party and demanding direct elections for both the chief executive and legislative council - now largely chosen by a small group of pro-Beijing business leaders - in four years. Under cloudy skies, a throng of demonstrators that rally organizers claim swelled to 22,000 (police estimates were closer to 7,000) walked through downtown Hong Kong under banners that read "Democracy Delayed is Democracy...
...unfortunate but predictable decision, the Dean of the Faculty and the Faculty Council announced last week that they had decided to cancel tomorrow’s Faculty meeting. While this marks the 23rd time in the past 25 years that the Faculty has declined to meet in January, a tradition of extra long vacations does not justify skipping a meeting, especially one at which the Faculty was primed to discuss several important proposals. The Faculty’s decision to play hooky reflects a laziness and complacency that must change. Matters that were scheduled to be discussed at the meeting...
...boost support for Lee; he won by a large margin. Since then Beijing has slowly been learning its lesson. "Whenever Taiwan has a big election, if Beijing makes a remark about local politics in Taiwan [it] will have a counterproductive effect," says Andrew Yang, secretary general of the Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies, a Taipei-based think tank...
University President Drew G. Faust received the gift at an open meeting of the Undergraduate Council last night, where she fielded questions for over an hour as part of an ongoing effort to be visible to undergraduates...
...Evaluations would allow students to receive grades earlier and require evaluations for all classes with more than five students, among other modifications. Discussion of the Q will now be pushed back to the next scheduled meeting on Feb. 12 in light of the decision by the Faculty Council, the 18-member governing body of FAS, to cancel the January meeting. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said he was unconcerned with the delay. “The lack of a Faculty Meeting in January won’t impair our forward progress,” he wrote in an e-mail...