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After graduating from law school, Uviller worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, part of the United States Department of Justice. As this job did not permit him direct contact with persons who needed legal aid, Uviller left the Department for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, where he worked for 14 years...
Perhaps the most significant change the UCRC has suggested is the direct election of candidates to each of the UC’s three committees. For years, UC critics have noted that students tend generally to favor service on the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) first, followed by the Campus Life Committee (CLC) and the Finance Committee. Under the old system, the House candidate garnering the highest percentage of the vote picked his or her first-choice committee, while the second and third-place winners were often placed on committees with missions they weren’t as passionate about...
...respective committee, that many sophomores have defeated junior and senior incumbents in the past suggests otherwise. Neither would it be bad to force SAC-aligned sophomores to “prove their mettle” on CLC before graduating back to SAC. With the proposed direct elections, UC candidates will work harder to craft committee-specific promises before elections. And they will show greater dedication afterwards...
...that I had a voicemail. It was from a bunch of my friends. They had gotten together to call me and see if I was alright—specifically, to see how my “crippled ass” was doing (yes, that’s a direct quote). A simple gesture, sure, but a meaningful one too. Perhaps my exhaustion or my rattled mind enhanced the effect of the voicemail, but that was the first time I really understood how lucky I was to have these friends. More than two years later, that message is still saved...
Questions of dual loyalty aside, Oppenheimer willingly agreed to direct the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb in 1942. Edward Teller suggested that such a device might ignite the hydrogen in the atmosphere and wipe out mankind. But Oppenheimer dismissed Teller’s calculations...