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...discussion of the financial situation will be the main docket item on today’s agenda...
...conduct consultations and meet with still more committees and working groups. These subcommittees convene and then write a report, which is then redistributed to other committees for discussion. Since these committees are advisory and cannot make binding decisions, a bill may or may not reach the next stage: the Docket Committee. The Faculty rules stipulate that this group determines what the 18-person elected Faculty Council will discuss. If an issue passes though these committees, it is placed on the agenda for a full faculty meeting, though the time between the Docket Committee and the faculty meeting is likely...
...core of Sudan's strategy is simple. The ICC may only take on cases of war crimes and crimes against humanity if the country where the crimes allegedly occurred doesn't pursue the cases itself. Since the ICC got the Darfur docket in 2005, Sudan has repeatedly assured the outside world - not very persuasively, experts say - that it is trying Darfur atrocities cases itself. The ICC itself remains unconvinced that Ali Kushayb's arrest, or Sudan's prosecution of low-level officials in Darfur, is sincere. "No cases involving serious violations of international humanitarian law have been tried and therefore...
...withdrawn from the council, the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Robert A. Lue, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, will fill the seat until Jenkins’ return. Additionally, history professor Ann M. Blair confirmed that she will replace Jenkins on the docket committee. Chaired by former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, the committee directs the proceedings of Council meetings and plans the agenda for the meetings of full Faculty. As for the other changes, Susan L. Lively will replace Noel Bisson as the Secretary of the Faculty...
...early ’90s, with Bowers v. Hardwick (the case which upheld the criminalization of sodomy) on the Supreme Court’s Docket, and the AIDS crisis exploding into the news, LGBT students were louder and more visible than ever. These students insisted that their professors address issues central to queer identity, demanding a class on sexual orientation and the law, and collaborating with other student groups to push for faculty diversity. Activism flared up more recently when the school decided to let military recruiters on campus rather than risk the University’s federal funding...