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...what he actually is: a University administrator who takes his job seriously.Poor Pilbeam landed in a hornet’s nest last week, when he posted a letter to the Undergraduate Council (UC) on the College’s Web site announcing his decision to suspend the UC party grant program. Conceived of in 2003 as a means to bolster undergraduate social life, the program dishes out $1,750 weekly to students who wish to host parties. In his letter, Pilbeam wrote that although he is “sympathetic to the goals of the program...
...marathon's halfway point by noon. But Hayes says he had crossed mile 15 at 11:30 a.m. and was officially removed from the course at 12:04, re-rerouted by officials who by that point had closed the marathon and ran the runners back to Chicago's Grant Park...
Just over a decade has passed since Andrew Cunanan became infamous as a serial killer, murdering at the height of his rampage the designer Gianni Versace. Now, his life has become the basis of a new musical, one subsidized by a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and being workshopped at the prestigious La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. While musicals about murders are no longer novelties - Chicago, Sweeny Todd and Assassins come to mind - they are usually generations removed from their audiences. Most Wanted is not only a contemporary story, but it is being produced...
...Council’s defiance of the College’s decision to end the party grant program sets up a confrontation with University Hall administrators still in possession of the bulk of the UC’s funding for the year...
...yesterday that he believes the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, with its 1982 vote, remains “the sole authority that could affect Undergraduate Council funding,” and he has said that Pilbeam overstepped his authority as an official of the College by ending the party grant system...