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...urge those in positions of authority to make the process of policy revision as transparent as possible. College and House administrators have sought student input on topics as varied as House renovations and environmental sustainability through the creation of committees and the use of online surveys to gauge student interest and collect responses. We urge those responsible for our alcohol policies to do the same. Similarly, once a policy revision is made, the administration should be as transparent as possible regarding its implementation. During the party grant controversy last year, many students were more upset about former Interim Dean...
...Perhaps negative campaigns are inevitable, and perhaps they are necessary. In the interest of discourse, we rationalize argument; in the interest of reform, criticism; in the interest of transparency, gossip. Perhaps. But what ends, exactly, justify these means...
...Conyers says the evidence raises "serious questions" about the U.S. Attorney in the Siegelman case, who, documents show, continued to involve herself in the politically charged prosecution long after she had publicly withdrawn to avoid an alleged conflict of interest relating to her husband, a top GOP operative and close associate of Bush adviser Karl Rove. Conyers' letter also cites evidence of numerous contacts between jurors and members of the Siegelman prosecution team that were never disclosed to the trial judge or defense counsel...
...prosecution e-mail describes how jurors repeatedly contacted the government's legal team during the trial to express, among other things, one juror's romantic interest in a member of the prosecution team. "The jurors kept sending out messages" via U.S. Marshals, the e-mail says, identifying a particular juror as "very interested" in a person who had sat at the prosecution table in court. The same juror was later described as reaching out to members of the prosecution team for personal advice about her career and educational plans. Conyers commented that the "risk of [jury] bias ... is obvious...
...Taylor met her 40-year-old husband, David Pollard, in an online chat room in 2003. Their mutual interest in Second Life helped their relationship flourish, and the couple married two years later. To mark the occasion, Laura Skye married Dave Barmy, Pollard's avatar (who clearly opted for the modest lifestyle on the game, living in a chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it), in a lavish ceremony on Second Life. "People find love in lots of different ways," Taylor said...