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...Being aware of our two roles I think was an important first step,” Kaufman said. “We discussed very carefully who we wanted to sit on the docket committee, since they serve a very important function as gatekeepers...
...docket committee prepares the agenda for each full Faculty meeting and its members are among the few with the power to shape the agenda of highly-scripted Faculty meetings, though any faculty member can offer an item for discussion. During Faculty meetings, the docket committee members also have procedural powers—last spring, the committee members recommended extensions to the two tense meetings preceding the no-confidence vote, and they counted the ballots cast in that vote on March...
...least one case on the docket may challenge new Chief Justice John Roberts' stated intent to pursue judicial modesty. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in former stripper ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S appeal to win part of the $1.6 billion fortune left by her late husband, Texas tycoon J. Howard Marshall, whom she wed in 1994 when she was 26 and he was 89. Sure, the Justices may be a more prudish audience than Smith is used to, but then again, they do wear those silky robes...
Tuesday’s agenda is currently available only to faculty members, but a copy obtained by the Crimson also shows two other docket items—a discussion of the recommendations of the two task forces on women faculty, and a presentation by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol on the establishment of a Graduate Policy Committee...
According to one member of the Faculty Council, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been officially released, the docket committee—Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, Ulrich, and Thomas—along with Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Pforzheimer Professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthropology Department Chair Arthur Kleinman, and Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Lisa M. McGirr, will represent the Faculty Council at the October meeting...