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...opposed to the phones a mere six months ago; that is, until the Undergraduate Council, which is not mentioned once, began lobbying for the phones. Between meeting with Mayor Sullivan, stubbornly pushing the issue in Safety Committee meetings, engaging the Boston Globe, and threatening to start a letter writing campaign with local neighbors—all of which was publicly done—this is a clear example of initiative, hard work, and results on the part of the Undergraduate Council...
...Georgians tried to enlist government authorities to their cause but failed. Then Bagnato called an old medical-school friend from Mississippi, David Merideth. Also a lawyer, Merideth suggested talking to Scruggs and asked Bagnato to write up his findings, at that point encompassing dozens of hospitals, in a letter. "I knew we were onto something really good when I gave Dickie the letter and he kept studying it," Merideth recalled. Scruggs was outraged by the accumulation of hospital wealth and seemingly abusive collection efforts. "He wouldn't give it back to me for a while," says Merideth. "When he finally...
...their June 18 letter, professors warned Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers that the decline may be an unintended result of new policies—including a push to tenure younger faculty—enacted over the past few years, Science reported...
...Most members of the search committee are men, and they’ll often bring in a token woman candidate after they’ve decided to hire somebody else,” one signer of the letter told Science...
...letter said Summers’ emphasis on tenuring younger faculty—because it comes at a time when many women have children—may have contributed to the trend...