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That is not to say that the directors of undergraduate studies in each department have no valuable contribution to add to the election process. PBK should welcome more information about the quality of each candidate, not less. After all, directors of each department are the people who are most familiar with their respective concentrations and, as such, can offer key information concerning the difficulty of each candidate’s course-load. Still, while this input is significant and deserves to play a role in PBK decisions, the value of student-sought faculty recommendations should not be understated in relation...
...intended to help students by not needlessly giving them hope of being elected, they actually detract from students’ power to advocate for their admission into PBK and unfairly disadvantage some students. As such, PBK should reverse trends and insert more transparency into its selection process, not less...
...water. In March, Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, toured Yunnan for three days, pledging governmental aid and advocating water-conservation efforts. Chances are that the arrival of summer showers will give the land respite in the next month. But until then, Vice Minister of Water Resources, Liu Ning, confirmed less than two weeks ago, about 30,000 sq. mi. (78,000 sq km) of soil are too dry to bear crops, which has resulted in more than $3.5 billion in agricultural losses. Across the parched terrain, the government has been rationing drinking water, digging emergency wells and shooting clouds with...
...that the sprinkling spree would be cut down from five hours to two. The government of the Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture, on the other hand, has decided to cancel official festivities and leave citizens to their own devices. The general consensus among locals is to splash with less water and focus on other celebratory activities. As a consequence, this year's festival, which runs from Tuesday through April 15, is likely to look much more authentic than it has in recent years. "Water-splashing is supposed to be a short, almost minor, part of the three-day holiday...
...water-splashing portion of the festival is organized in a shallow pool every day at 3:30 p.m. Cable describes the spectacle as a "large-scale wet-T-shirt contest." For $5, tourists can rent plastic basins for splashing each other and scantily-clad Dai women. "Authenticity is much less important than entertainment in China," says Cable. "Tourists don't come to see authentic rituals. They come to see outrageous ones." The park, which is run by a management company owned by Han Chinese, the country's ethnic majority, still anticipates over 1,000 visitors to the water-splashing pavilion...