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...board.Currently, resident deans present students with their cases, often serving as representatives in hearings or advisors, yet they can speak against those same students in hearings in which the students are not present. Next year, the secretary of the Ad Board, currently Associate Dean of the College Jay Ellison, will present students with their cases, according to Hammonds.Students will also be allowed to select anyone in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as their advisor for Ad Board proceedings, according to former Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Sundquist was the only student member...
...tests en masse in order to demonstrate the demand for anonymous testing. But a majority of protesters were turned away by UHS because they did not have an appointment or an actual medical ailment, according to Craig B. Colbeck, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student. Linda Ellison, who teaches in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality department, organized the event after hearing about the policy change from UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59 at a May 11 meeting. She said she hoped that the protest would make people aware of the importance of anonymous testing...
...policy change, Linda Ellison—who teaches in the department of Women and Gender Studies—is encouraging undergraduates to support anonymous testing at a “test-in” next Wednesday. In an e-mail that was forwarded to various campus lists last night, Ellison wrote that when Rosenthal was asked by one of her students “what kind of person” should get HIV/AIDS testing, the UHS director responded, “promiscuous” people. “The students said they felt judged,” Ellison said...
Everybody has Apple envy - even Larry Ellison. The dashing playboy founded Oracle Corp., whose relational database software makes it the 137th largest company in the world. Ellison, who likes to pilot old fighter jets and lives in a faux Japanese-style mansion, is one of the richest men in the world and another of the great, big personalities of Silicon Valley. Just like his old buddy, Steven P. Jobs. So it was at once surprising - and not - when the news broke this morning that Oracle intends to purchase Sun Microsystems, for around $7.4 billion...
...observation of some analysts that this deal makes Oracle more IBM than Apple. (Just two weeks ago, IBM had made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Sun, meeting vociferous opposition from Sun's board, particularly from its chairman, the company's legendary founder Scott McNealy.) With the Sun acquisition, Ellison gets a soup-to-nuts business and the ability to integrate everything from chips to boxes to software. But better than serving the fickle consumer market, as Apple does, he gets to slice off the top of the far more lucrative business market. That allows him to protect his margins...