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...group,” even if the group would be barred under the UC’s nondiscrimination clause. The grant still must fund an event or project that is not discriminatory—even if the group otherwise excludes members based on gender or religion.UC Finance Committee Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 blasted the bill, saying that “at the most fundamental level, funding explicit discrimination is something that the UC should not be in the business of doing.” But the council nonetheless voted 26 to 19 for Hadfield?...
...against the bill.Thomas D. Hadfield ’08, a sponsor of the bill, said that it “allows for UC funding for non-discriminatory events organized by official student groups” and will lead to more non-discriminatory events on campus. But Finance Committee chair Lori M. Adelman ’08, who opposed the act, said that, “at the most fundamental level, funding explicit discrimination is something that the UC should not be in the business of doing.”—Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached...
...County, Fla., investors are saving more than $7 million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check out when the Courtyard started welcoming guests last year: in 2005 the cows chewed some...
...Harvard College Democrats also presented on behalf of their grants. In creating the inital grants package, FiCom acted as they have in past years, allocating money as if they had unlimited funds and funding all groups based on what they were eligible for, according to Finance Committee (FiCom) Chair Lori M. Adelman ’08. Afterwards, FiCom reduced all awarded grants proportionally by 45 percent in order to accomodate the approximately $20,000 total available to student groups. Last year, FiCom had to reduce all grants by 35 percent. “We wanted to treat all student groups...
...dams and reservoirs, and many would still not benefit directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director of the Africa program at the International Rivers Network (IRN), an environmental group based in California. "It assumes that a lot of things are going to go very well, and history shows us with big projects like these, big dams, that it won't." Exhibit A for both sides...