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...sacrifice pursuing sustainability in order to maintain food quality. The committee discussed student perspective on sustainability as a long-term issue. But Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, one of the three student representatives at the meeting, said institutional memory can be difficult to establish given the typical four-year college career. “The easiest way to mitigate that is to ensure that there is transparency in terms of those decisions being made,” Sundquist said. Clear communication between HUDS and students about impending changes would most likely elicit positive student response...
...announced an award bearing his own name. Chadbourne’s Web site called for nominations and a description of the award was sent over the Dunster House open list, but last night an administrator called to inform Chadbourne of a University policy regulating the establishment of awards that would jeopardize his position as a proctor if he created an award himself. “Had I been fully aware of this policy, I wouldn’t have even gone down this road,” Chadbourne said, adding that he had not come across the rule when searching...
...processes of the UC before I sat on this committee,” Lee said. “And I think this is a problem because I consider myself fairly informed on student affairs.” Because of concern that freshmen do not have enough time to establish themselves on campus before running, the idea of moving freshman representative elections to later in the year was also discussed. Ellora A. Derenoncourt ’09, who attended the meeting hoping for a discussion of student governance on a more general level, said she was disappointed that the meeting...
...dollars in new funding has been made available this decade for health delivery programs in AIDS and other diseases; however, in order for these efforts to succeed in developing effective health systems that are accessible by the poor, universities must continue to support the quantitative and qualitative research that establishes decision-making principles in global health delivery. Universities must also commit to training a generation of future leaders, especially those from developing nations, in the multi-disciplinary field of global health delivery. Just as medical schools require two years of hands-on training through clinical rotations, so must research universities...
While this program will only include about 5,000 students, we hope that it is successful enough to lead to similar experiments in the future. In addition to providing greater opportunities for students, a large base of such programs would help to establish connections between younger generations in China and the United States. Although we are unsure at how much effect this particular, somewhat limited program will have on cultural exchange, its introduction is a sign of greater global community, and it signals a future in which the Internet allows different countries to share cultural and intellectual innovations...