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...addition, the task force reports called for the creation of an “endowment or some other durable funding mechanism?? to support “targeted hiring.” The eventual goal is to appoint 40 additional faculty members over the next five years...
...curb global emissions. The way Kyoto sought to do this was through variants of emission trading schemes where investors from the industrialized countries could capitalize on the cheaper emission reductions in developing countries. The jury is still out on whether this so-called “clean development mechanism?? (CDM) will be successful. There are many potential reasons why this experiment might fail. But even if it does not, picking low-hanging fruits cannot be a long-term solution. Ultimately, developing countries will wish to use the cheaper emission reductions for themselves. Moreover, we cannot indefinitely postpone difficult...
...Columbia’s Anti-Semitism Problem” (Nov. 4) the Crimson Staff outlined a procedural remedy they believe would “ensure a safer, more welcoming learning environment.” More specifically, they suggest the creation of a “formal complaint mechanism?? separate from academic departments. Such an entity, they point out, ought to safeguard students from religiously motivated improprieties. A wonderful idea, to be sure, but somewhat misplaced in the temporal order of things, namely because at Columbia such an entity already exists. We call it the Ombuds Office; it functions...
Regardless of the results of the investigation, we believe there are steps Columbia should take to ensure a safer, more welcoming learning environment. Columbia ought to establish a formal complaint mechanism??an office or liaison separate from the academic departments that would hear students’ formal complaints concerning intimidation or discrimination. Such mechanisms exist, for example, to safeguard students who experience racially- or sexually-motivated harassment. It should exist to guard against improprieties motivated by bias against religious groups as well...
...attractive are these benefits, said Somerville, that the program is “starting to act as a recruiting mechanism?? for accomplished singers trying to decide between a liberal-arts education at Harvard or training at a conservatory...