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...totally relaxed until the water gets down and we can actually see how much damage there is," says Andrew Stewart, a University of Iowa junior, who was among hundreds sandbagging in Iowa City, even though he's on crutches following recent surgery. With one-eighth of the campus affected by flooding, the university suspended this week's summer classes. "At some point, you're going to have to turn around and move all those sandbags and I'm sure there's going to be a lot of houses with debris. They'll be looking for volunteers. We're going...
Only in second grade at the time of 9/11--I'm now in eighth--I had been utterly confused by the tragic events. However, your article about the heroic efforts of Rick Rescorla and the risks he took for his colleagues sent my mother and me into tears. Rescorla's ability to remain calm and assertive in a dangerous situation is inspiring, and I hope we can learn from his example. Martha Harding, PALO ALTO, CALIF...
Media outlets and peers expected me to say something insightful at University President Drew G. Faust’s inauguration, asking for my opinion as only the eighth woman to lead The Crimson in 134 years. I shrugged, because the feminist cause was not really speaking to me at the time. My biggest “woman’s issue” at Harvard was the recent removal of the free tampon dispensers from the Lamont Library bathroom...
...rest of the semester, however, was not as productive. Having faced several meetings in recent years—including November’s infamous debate—in which the Faculty failed to meet quorum, the Faculty put a proposal to lower quorum from one-sixth to one-eighth on the agenda for the next meeting. Perhaps out of shock at having accomplished something during the February meeting, or maybe out of fear that the meeting would not reach quorum itself, the Faculty decided to cancel their March meeting, putting off their discussion of the quorum question until April?...
...entrusted with a tremendous responsibility with the power to vote on all of these issues. If they were willing to commit a few hours every month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth. The institutional inertia affects not only the issues that were put off, such as the quorum vote, but also issues that have received insufficient oversight from the Faculty this year, such as the General Education program...