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...suggesting that we abolish the House system and the alleged community that it fosters. I’m just suggesting that we delay that process and build it on a more solid foundation of class cohesion. The new system would assign sophomore blocking groups to a house while they’re living in the quad—much like at Yale—allowing them to enjoy the benefits of the House system while entering it as a more prepared and bonded group...
...Loker Commons, the creation of the Lamont Library Café, the renovation of the Mather and Dunster dining halls, and the creation of a new dance center when the old one was shut down. All of these major student life initiatives were on the brink of doom or significant delay because of the whim of one person—the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...stayed as much as for those who have left. Interest in the campaign is running high in France itself, and many émigrés are following it closely. Jozan, the M.B.A. student in London, believes the stakes are significant. "The question is, do we have another five years' delay or do we take the bull by the horns and confront the big issues?" he asks. "It's fine to debate, but France needs a leader. It needs to adjust to a new world. If it wants to be competitive, it needs to move...
...rendering of Daisuke that has become his new American nickname) can't blow a bubble without the media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition...
This is not the sign of mismanagement or incompetence, however. In fact, the UC is doing precisely its job by distributing its budget to student organizations without delay. Although much noise will be made when the UC inevitably runs out of money and must make an end-of-the-year, across-the-board cut for all student groups in the last grants package, this practice is the most fiscally responsible, fair, and un-arbitrary way that the UC can handle its money shortage. The UC Finance Committee (FiCom) should be applauded for employing such a method already...