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...moment, though, Faust's cabinet includes several temporary members, including interim deans at Harvard Medical School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and two deans—at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design—who agreed to delay their resignation until permanent replacements are found...
...turns out that the BTS data on tarmac delays is inaccurate. Currently, the BTS does not record the total time a plane spends on the tarmac if the plane returns to the gate and then later takes off. It also does not include the tarmac delay times if the plane had been diverted from another airport or if the flight is ultimately cancelled, says David Smallen, a BTS spokesman. Those flights are just recorded as "diverted" or "cancelled," regardless if passengers have sat on the planes for hours, according to Smallen...
...even exist," says Kate Hanni, a passenger onboard flight 1348, which she says had overflowing toilets and little food or water. She went on to found the Coalition for an Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights, a grassroots organization that is lobbying Congress to federally mandate that all tarmac delays be capped at four hours. When Mark Mogel, a member of Hanni's coalition, logged onto the BTS website to find data on Hanni's flight delay, he turned up empty-handed...
...Mogel wasn't the only person to discover delay discrepancies. Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Republican from Ohio, did some digging of her own after being delayed on an airport tarmac for two hours in January. Schmidt, who sits on the House Infrastructure and Transportation Committee, was also shocked to find the loophole. In June, she introduced a bill that would require the BTS to record tarmac delays of all flights, regardless of returns to the gate, diversions or cancellations. "I think we need to know what the true picture is of these delays, because it could be underreported...
Fast-forward four years, and it appears that Gross has accomplished his initial goals: the faculty voted on a new undergraduate curriculum this spring, an office of undergraduate advising now exists in University Hall, a peer advising program, a delay in concentration choice, and a secondary-field program are all in place, and students now can congregate in a student organizations center, a women's center, the Lamont Library Café, freshman common rooms, and even an undergraduate pub. Additionally, offices for alcohol safety and sexual assault prevention exist on campus to serve students, and changes to the student handbook...