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...Francisco, Urban Diversions, tel: (1-415) 776 7455, arranges events such as a games night, river rafting and skydiving. According to spokeswoman Kumiko Yoshida, people sign up because "they're busy, active professionals who don't have time to plan social events." To participate, they pay a nominal membership fee...
...Francisco, Urban Diversions, tel: (1-415) 776 7455, arranges events such as a games night, river rafting and skydiving. According to spokeswoman Kumiko Yoshida, people sign up because "they're busy, active professionals who don't have time to plan social events." To participate, they pay a nominal membership fee. If you're heading north, roam through the Seattle Art Museum, drink in hand, listening to live contemporary music at "Thursday After Hours." This weekly event draws hundreds of people between the ages of 25 and 40, says the museum's spokeswoman Cara Egan. "It's known as a good...
...since it instituted a database designed to track students while in the U.S. Despite the fact that the approximately 583,000 internationals enrolled in American universities contribute about $12 billion to the economy, on Oct. 27, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed that each should pay a $100 fee to fund an elaborate scheme to monitor them. The suggestion that international students should submit to such fees for the privilege of studying in the United States fails to appreciate the value of international students’ presence on U.S. campuses and gives the message that...
...fee for SEVIS is also problematic. Unlike Harvard, most institutions do not have the funding to cover additional costs for these students. Such a policy can only lead to a loss of diversity in student bodies nationwide, as fewer resources are available to recruit foreign talent. What is worse, an independent consulting firm projected the cost per student at $54, indicating that the DHS plans not only to charge the students for the maintenance of the project, but to profit from them as well...
...still have the chance to stand up against SEVIS: written comments on the proposed fee will be accepted by the DHS until Dec. 26. If Harvard fails to stand up against these overreaching regulations, there is little hope that the rest of the American university system will take serious action. By instituting not just an invasive database but a tax on foreign students, we will ultimately take one more step towards affording victory to those fundamentalists in the world whose aim is to distance us all from each other and stop the global exchange of ideas...