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...Faculty Council moved Wednesday to eliminate five standing faculty committees, some of which were dormant—part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s larger initiative to reexamine all standing faculty committees. The Science Center Executive Committee and the FAS Standing Committee on Benefits, which were dissolved, have not met for years. Former FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles originally founded the FAS Standing Committee in 1995 in response to the University administration’s intended one-percent reduction in its contribution to faculty pension funds, which had not been discussed with faculty...
...have not changed our commitment to having enough teaching for graduate students who need to support themselves, so this is having a larger impact on section leaders who are not graduate students in GSAS,” McCarty said...
...group plans to hold a larger rally outside University Hall, where the Faculty meeting will be in progress...
...That sort of thinking, while valid, misses the larger picture. If one brackets the equally legitimate notion that Americans probably should have less access to credit-card borrowing and simply dissects the bill before Congress, one starts to see that the proposed changes aren't really about dictating what a card company can or can't charge borrowers. There's a way to do that: impose interest-rate caps, as many states' usury laws do. That isn't what Congress is on track to do. Instead, the new law, which would build on regulations issued by the Federal Reserve...
...most dangerous part of the Antarctic ice cap is in the west, where much of the continent lies slightly below sea level. Ice shelves that fringe the land keep the seawater out, but if those should melt, the water would rush in and destabilize the larger sheet, leading to slipping, more melting and the possibility of a catastrophic collapse. Picture New Orleans when the levees overtopped; now picture the flooding going global...