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...between student forums and the proposed dean. Though the dean’s role requires nuanced coordination of both the sentiments of the student body and the administration, the new dean should recognize that accepting student expression is the first step in creating a beneficial atmosphere between students and high-level decision makers. The new dean must also strive to achieve a transparency in decision-making processes. The nature of the Administrative Board is one crucial matter in which progressive reform must be greatly amplified. The representation of students on the Ad Board is shrouded by bureaucratic banalities and many...
...Pilbeam’s aversion to the interim tag may be due in part to the negative associations that the label seems to evoke among representatives of both students and the Faculty, who believe that the transient tenures of top University officials in the past few years have retarded high-level decision-making...
...former UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, difficulties in pursuing policy arose when high-level University positions—among them the College deanship, the FAS deanship, and the University presidency—turned over in the middle of his tenure, yielding, in his words, “administrators unfamiliar with their new roles, and the Undergraduate Council...
...Samak has proudly proclaimed himself the nominee of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister ousted by the army in September 2006 and now living in self-imposed exile in Hong Kong. And that's where high-level members of Samak's People Power Party - widely regarded as Thaksin's proxy political vehicle - flocked over the weekend to start lobbying for Cabinet posts. "Samak faces real credibility problems," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "Of course, he's not the one in charge...
...upon. That means refraining from redundant reminders that military force is still "on the table," which only strengthen the hand of hard-line Islamists and nationalists. It means broadening cultural contacts with the Iranian people, bypassing the regime through Voice of America and the Internet. And it means trying high-level political negotiations, something the Bush Administration has so far shunned. Supporters of engagement should not equate dialogue with concessions. We should ask international negotiators to insist--as we did with the Soviet Union during the cold war--that Iran address human-rights issues as well as security concerns...