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Though the University Library Task Force’s preliminary recommendations remain vague, representatives identified establishing and implementing “a shared administrative infrastructure?? and more efficiently acquiring materials for “a single University collection” at an open meeting Friday where Hyman was not present...
...room full of old dogs and these are some new tricks that you’re proposing to teach.” PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 raised the possibility that “already overstressed demands on the infrastructure?? would cause the University to divert resources from already existing artistic endeavors on campus. But Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literature and visual and environmental studies, stood with arms akimbo at the podium and sought to allay Lewis’ concerns...
...eager venture capitalists, charismatic young politicians are awarded power by voters, and basketball virtuosi are drafted to the NBA before the age of 20. But the less gifted are also well tended to in America. Investment in the mass of men—best achieved through investment in public infrastructure??has always been even more important than nurturing genius. All babies get vaccines, everyone has access to excellent roads and the Internet, and we all get clean water to drink. Young people have the hope that springs from a land that produced Sam Walton and Barack Obama...
...immersion, faculty involvement, and curricular integration. The CEA provides oversight for the University’s development of travel abroad programs and will evaluate all student applications for the Rockefeller grants, according to Lue. He added that the Office of International Programs will provide the “logistical infrastructure?? necessary to administer the grants. Lue said that faculty involvement could come in the form of “leading a study abroad program, or also guiding students in their selection of the right program.” The CEA also wants to ensure that...
...ASCE estimates that it would take $1.6 trillion over a span of five years in order to bring the nation’s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects—transportation infrastructure??the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient...