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...council’s Constitutional Revision Committee (CRC) presented its proposed new constitution yesterday, to update what Mahan called the “essentially useless constitution that we currently have...
Jack P. McCambridge ’06, who chairs the council’s Campus Life Committee, objected that the CRC had not consulted sufficiently with council members before issuing its recommendations...
When the Smithsonian announced that it was closing its Conservation & Research Center (CRC), where veterinarians and biologists work to preserve the rarest species, scientists recognized the handiwork of Lawrence Small, the Institution's controversial secretary who has been ruffling feathers--not all of them on stuffed emus--since he took office last year...
Which makes it all the more difficult for scientists to accept the loss of the CRC. The center's budget this year was $5.2 million--about the price of a single panda. "Scientists are wondering what the hell is going on," says the CRC's Chris Wemmer. At a rancorous meeting at the National Museum of Natural History last month, somebody shouted at Small, "What do you know about science? You're a banker...
Those choices still have to get by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, which meets next Monday, and through Congress, where the CRC has some passionate supporters. At stake, they say, is the mission of the 155-year-old institution: Is it a place where people do science or go to look at it? "The big challenge here," says Small, "is we've got to get a story about science that's completely understandable. To get money in wholesale amounts, you have to sell concepts." In other words, more giant pandas and fewer tree kangaroos...