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...also been a steadfast advocate for international students and easing the difficulties they face in procuring H1B visas. Over the past semester, he has worked with the administration and the Woodbridge Society in efforts to have the College write letters on behalf of foreign students and provide them with legal help in navigating the complex lottery process.Finally, Schwartz and Biggers propose small, yet meaningful, reforms that address the day-to-day concerns of students, like extending dining hall hours to help athletes with late practices, improving cross-registration, and extending the drop/add deadline. Their practical solutions represent the work...
...closing Gitmo is the relatively easy part. Far more complex will be what Obama decides to do about Guantánamo's so-called "military commissions" - the Bush Administration's controversial legal apparatus for judging accused terrorists. The Supreme Court and other federal courts have repeatedly found fault with the commissions, which critics say are show trials unworthy of American jurisprudence...
...there are plenty of other defendants who could be tried under Guantánamo's unique legal process. And carrying the banner for that process is Brigadier General Thomas W. Hartmann, 53, a lawyer and Air Force reservist who as the top legal adviser and chief administrator of the trials has managed to put 17 complex war-crimes cases on the docket in less than 18 months. Now Obama's promise to shutter the facility seems to have spurred Hartmann to even greater activity. Motions and hearings are currently under way in at least half a dozen cases, and this...
Behind the scenes, Obama's team is struggling to get a handle on Hartmann's plans for bringing the Gitmo suspects to justice. Several days ago, a team of Obama legal advisers quietly met at the Pentagon with Hartmann and others involved in the Guantánamo trials, sources tell TIME. Hartmann vigorously defended them, arguing that they should continue regardless of the change in administrations. Though specifically asked to do so, Hartmann declined to discuss legal alternatives to the trials, a topic Obama's representatives had been eager to explore...
There are other changes that Hartmann would apparently like to see at Gitmo if the camp's legal system survives - changes detailed in a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that TIME has obtained. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. (The former officer overseeing that project reports to Hartmann, who helped select...