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...mention in the editorial that students can have no alternative choice of representation other than their resident dean. Again, this is incorrect. Students can ask for a Board alternate if they so choose and the Dean readily appoints one, ordinarily from the pool of Board members who are not also resident deans. In addition to the representative to the Board, a student can also ask for a personal advisor, someone who is an officer of FAS (a professor, coach, tutor, etc.), to come to their appearance before the Board or its subcommittee with them...
...What the World Needs Now I appreciated Michael Kinsley's essay on the desirable leadership quality that is toxic to mention because of its allegedly élitist overtones: intelligence [Oct. 27]. I have long felt that U.S. presidential candidates, much like graduate students, should be subject to a preliminary examination in their area of expertise. Candidates should have some knowledge of, if not proficiency in, world history, religions, cultures, geography. As it is now, we assume the media and debates will ferret out deficiencies in candidates' education that might lead to serious, perhaps deadly decisions - and that is not always...
...even our valiant efforts couldn’t affect the painful food waste and water runoff from tray washing, which is starving seals in the third-world, not to mention maintaining the funding of Diamond Magazine. Somehow there are still students who fail to see tray-less dining’s clear benefits...
...their political views by age 15, but also students are more affected by the media and their peers than by their professors. But disproving this conservative dogma does not eradicate the resentment that feeds it—a resentment born out of political frustration with no productive (not to mention logical) end. Nor does it prevent the measures this dogma engenders, including calls for universities to hire only “apolitical” faculty members. In reality, many conservative hawks who support such measures, including the notorious David Horowitz, are precisely the sources of the political radicalism they publicly...
Obviously, he wanted to be gracious, he wanted to recognize the historic significance I talked about. He specifically wanted to mention Obama's grandmother. He wanted some line in there saying racial injustice still has the power to wound. And he wanted to call the country to come together...