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...Megan L. Peimer '97 and Ezra W. Reese '97 asked seniors to withhold their gifts from the college and place them in a privately held escrow fund to protest the University's tenure policies. The several thousand dollars raised will only be given to the University when it meets criteria for tenuring of female professors...
...NCAA Selection Committee will try to rank teams more objectively than the seemingly-arbitrary NFHCA poll. In the off-season, the committee approved the use of a ratings-percentage index as part of the selection criteria for the first time. Head-to-head contests and records versus common opponents should also be major factors under consideration...
...companies did propose certain restrictions. Even with over-the-counter approval, statins would not be available on drugstore shelves next to cold medications and aspirin. A patient would have to produce a blood test for a pharmacist showing that his or her cholesterol levels met whatever the eventual criteria would be for moderately high levels. Only the pharmacist would be able to review that test and dispense the drug. But a panel of experts was unconvinced, and advised the fda last summer to deny the petition, at least until further studies are completed...
...more moderate resolution passed easily after more than an hour of passionate--but not contentious--debate. The resolution said that MCAS is unfair to students in special and vocational education programs and to bilingual students. The resolution also said students' graduations should be determined by many other criteria, like projects and portfolios, and not just by the MCAS tests...
...opponents often claim that family farms and small businesses must be sold to pay the tax. But, like the impact of the tax burden, this problem is not as serious as it sounds. Only a small number of farms and businesses--less than one in 20--even meet the criteria needed to pay the estate tax, and among those who do a series of exceptions allow most of them to avoid paying a tax at all. For instance, owners of farms and small businesses have higher exemption levels, and for tax purposes they are allowed to value their assets...