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Based on the arguments about downsizing at Harvard, one might think that across the Ivy League, all student governments had "deadweight" to cut from a large membership, but this is not the case. Twenty students represent an undergraduate population of 4,000 on the Columbia College Student Council and fewer than 30 students represent 12,000 undergraduates on the Cornell Student Assembly...
...most of this century, hospitals were central in the teaching of young physicians," he said in a statement. "Today, with fewer inpatient admissions, shortened hospital stays, and more patients being diagnosed and treated in outpatient clinics, hospitals provide fewer teaching opportunities...
Under the terms of the six-season agreement, players who have been in the league for more than 10 years can make no more than $14 million in the first year of their contracts. The ceiling drops to $11 million for players with fewer than 10 years experience and $9 million for players with under six years of experience...
Researchers hope it won't take too long to convince doctors that they can safely prescribe beta-blockers for congestive heart failure. "Fewer than 5% of these patients are now on beta-blockers," says Dr. Milton Packer, professor of medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. "But if we could get 75% to 90% of them on the drugs, we'd be saving tens of thousands of lives...
...have said before on this page, the only way the council has a shot at achieving some sort of legitimacy is to cut its size. With fewer members, who are actually forced to compete against one another to gain seats on the council, council representatives will be forced to run on legitimate platforms (or at least popular ones). Some members object that reducing the size of the council will make it less representative. This is nonsense, for as it stands now our student government is more of a volunteer organization than an elected body; essentially the council represents the views...