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...Reyes-Bonar ’06. Rinere officially announced last Tuesday that the prefect program would be incorporated into a new peer advising fellow program, created by her office and its Student Advisory Board (SAB). Under the new program, fellows will not only fill the entryway community-building function that prefects do, but will also serve as informal academic advisors to a group of 10 freshmen. Peer advisers will be expected to meet their advisee group weekly and to offer extracurricular and college-life advice. Some advising fellow applicants said that when forced to choose between several extracurricular activities...
Critics don't buy it and see the credit- debit function as the thin edge of the banking wedge. "I cannot believe they are doing all of this to save $5 million a year," the equivalent of about nine minutes of sales, says Terry Jorde, president and CEO of Country Bank USA in Cando, N.D. The fear, says Lawrence White, a professor of economics at New York University, is that the company will do to retail banking what it has done in apparel and groceries. Indeed, the application Wal-Mart filed would allow it to request a changed business plan...
...there is also the question of Rumsfeld's ability to function along the Pentagon's polished corridors. A veteran of the highest level E-Ring meetings predicted that Rumsfeld will wonder whether he is hearing what the uniformed officers are really thinking. A natural instinct in that situation, he added, would be to invite fewer military officers to high-level meetings--thus potentially adding to the distance between the uniforms and the civilians...
...turn off lights. Apart from Prince Charles, whose Duchy of Cornwall estate funds his private and official duties, and Prince Philip, she supports the other royals using her own money. Walker says, "If you look at the number of people and amount of expenditure supporting the head-of-state function, it's much, much cheaper than virtually any comparable country...
...freed the social programming board of these constraints. The new social programming board will be able to organize during the summer, over breaks, and on a schedule of annual funding as opposed to being allotted a certain amount from the UC per semester.Finally, the UC’s primary function is as an advocacy group, not a social programming institution. Social events require a large degree of collaboration, but advocacy initiatives tend to put themselves in an adversarial position with regard to the administration. Navigating the red tape necessary to organize a large-scale social event will be much easier...