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...draw more candidates for elections. The sessions will be required to meet various standards including acquainting students with the procedure for standing for election. Yesterday’s legislation will allow participating student groups to bypass the Financial Committee’s typical grant application process in applying for funding for the informational sessions. Tracy E. Nowski ’07, the former campaign manager for UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, expressed her support for the new outreach legislation on the UC floor, saying that...
...What makes this massive undertaking significant is that all this information will be overseen by paid experts (known as "stewards") to ensure accuracy, and each portal will be contextualized in relation to other portals. For example, the expert of the Ocean portal can grant editorial control to a steward for the Reef Portal, then in turn the Fish Portal, then the Shark Portal, The Angel Fish Portal, and so on. "The editorial network builds itself, like a tree, so it grows organically and exponentially, with editors choosing editors," says Firmage, 36. "It creates a global editorial room allowing for checks...
...that this study was in the works, released its own report that, shockingly, found no bias. Most players just scoffed at the academics. "They must not have studied me, because I've had more issues with black referees calling fouls on me than white officials," says Orlando Magic forward Grant Hill. "It's just foolish. Someone had too much time on their hands...
...slightly more academic collegiate oriented version of Cosmopolitan or Seventeen,” came out in December 2005 amidst questions over its financial sustainability. This year, the magazine printed only 200 copies—3300 fewer copies than last year’s pioneer issue—with grant money from the Ann Radcliffe Trust and the Undergraduate Council. “[We] printed out exactly as many copies as we had grant money,” Sebastian said. But despite the limited funds, Freeze’s sophomore issue has expanded in both length and range of content with...
...plan was to impose not just British laws and technology on India but also British Christian values. That way India would be not only ruled but redeemed. Local laws that offended Christian sensibilities were abrogated. The burning of widows, for example, was banned. One of the company directors, Charles Grant, spoke for many when he wrote of how he believed that Providence had brought the British to India for a higher purpose: "Is it not necessary to conclude that our Asiatic territories were given to us, not merely that we might draw an annual profit from them, but that...