Word: counsels
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...case has outraged civil-liberties advocates, but Francisco Negrón, general counsel of the National School Boards Association, says students and parents should expand their understanding of a school's boundaries. He notes that schools in Prince Georges County, Md., and elsewhere now hold some classes online and that many public schools are as much virtual communities as real ones. "When kids go on MySpace and make threats against teachers or other students," he says, "that becomes a safety issue for schools...
Sally Jensen Dutcher, general counsel for the Napa Valley schools, says the dress-code case will cost the district at least $50,000 in expenses if it goes to trial, and perhaps "hundreds of thousands" if it's appealed. That's a small piece of the district's $118 million budget, but it "bothers me when that money could be better spent educating students," she says...
...wholeheartedly sympathize with many of its complaints. The Harvard administration’s chronic deafness to student voices has alarmingly limited undergraduate input into the conduct and affairs of our University. As students, we do not demand that our opinions be put into immediate effect, but that our counsel be heard and given some degree of credence. We do not think this too much to ask. Undergraduates are an integral part of Harvard’s community with a completely different perspective from most administrators. As such, students should be able to present their needs, preferences, and interests by serving...
...University’s seven vice presidents—Vice President for Finance Elizabeth Mora, Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, and Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser. Faust wrote in her e-mail that Vice President for Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ‘83, Vice President for Policy A. Clayton Spencer, and the incoming vice president for alumni affairs and development, whom Faust has not yet appointed, will continue to report directly to the president...
...head of the Vatican's doctrinal office. At the time, in the heat of the campaign for the White House, several U.S. bishops had declared that pro-choice politicians like Kerry should be denied the rite of Holy Communion at Catholic Mass. When he was formally asked for doctrinal counsel on the matter, Cardinal Ratzinger wrote a carefully worded letter to the U.S. bishops conference that simultaneously reaffirmed strict Catholic opposition to abortion, yet urged Church leaders to do their best to avoid getting involved in electoral politics...