Word: job
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Trembaly's toughest job will be attaching the 'muscles...
This is not to say that these individuals will not do a good job on the committee. Many of the students might be extremely experienced or otherwise qualified for the position. Still, the fact that there has been no open application process for the positions, nor any real disclosure about how exactly the Trust will be run, is deeply troubling. Will these handpicked student representatives be voting members of the committee with equal status to the other members? Who will preside over the committee? What kind of criteria will they employ for dispensing funds...
...Senator Kennedy and the rest of the Massachusetts delegation did a great job of getting hospitals relief. It was very much an uphill battle, and they won that battle," Watson said...
...this job were delegated to a unelected group, what would be left of the council? Ostensibly, the council also speaks for the student body, both to the administration and to the world. But again, on this campus a democratically elected assembly from the houses is not the best way of gauging and representing student opinion. Nearly any yahoo who wants a council seat can get one, and even if elections were to become competitive overnight, it would still be impractical to expect the council to genuinely reflect student opinion...
...poor reputation of today's council comes from a mismatch between what it calls itself and what it actually does. Many current council members do a good job trying to make the campus a better place. But it's a joke to say they "govern." Scrap these farcical elections and pretensions of democracy, and the council will have a clearer role on campus and the flexibility to accomplish more...