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...Faculty advisory committee on University spending would do much to dispel such suspicions. While it might seem like only adding another bureaucratic arm to the entire process, such a committee would undoubtedly lead to a greater sense of trust between the two groups, and perhaps a fairer, wiser and more efficient distribution of resources. Faculty members may not be experts on the University's finances, but they, along with students, are primary recipients of large-scale spending. This allows them to evaluate University proposals from a practical perspective...
...benefits mainstream culture as well as minority groups. Perhaps the next step toward achieving an environment in which ethnic-specific clubs can be viewed without suspicion, is to encourage interaction between the groups and the rest of the campus. AACF and other ethnic-specific organizations have the potential to dispel distrust, but this will only be possible if there is a genuine effort on the part of the groups to reach outward, and on the rest of the campus to reciprocate...
Gettysburg, as everyone knows, is in Pennsylvania, but George W. Bush can't wait that long. And so he's going to make his stand here, turning South Carolina into his battleground to once and for all dispel the notion that Republicans should consider voting for John McCain. Bush says he can certainly see why Democrats would; on Sunday he told Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" that those sly Dems were planning on pulling the McCain lever just so they could stack the deck in favor of their candidate in the general election. Although this seems to veer dangerously...
...goals of these sessions is to dispel the myths about Harvard: that all classes are taught by TFs; that advising at Harvard is poor; that it's really competitive and only rich, snobby people come here," Lamar says. "We just want to tell applicants what it's really like...
...Abeles adds that she tries to give recruits an honest impression of the team and the school, rather than actively trying to dispel stereotypes...