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...layoffs. She said that she has witnessed “overwhelming willingness” to participate among faculty. But according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell, the institution of even an across-the-board 2 percent salary reduction for non-union workers would have only a “minor impact,” saving less than $5 million—only a fraction of the $143 million that remains to be cut. “Those who enjoy great privileges also have great responsibilities, and that means making great sacrifices for the common good when circumstances require...
...Board. Instead, House administrators should handle smaller cases, the committee encouraged, doling out official “House warnings” as punishments.According to Losick, a former Ad Board member, going before the board can be a punishment in itself in cases, when students are only accused of minor transgressions and are forced to cope with the sometimes stressful policies of the Board.“People have been threatened with the Ad Board for propping a door open in their room,” Sundquist said. “That’s a local issue that can easily...
...seat in the Brussels body still appears strangely attractive to a raft of minor celebrities. Among the candidates hoping to be elected or re-elected are former Czech astronaut Vladimir Remek; Finland's four-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, Ari Vatanen; Bulgarian Taekwondo champion and nightclub impresario Slavi Binev; and Paul Georg Maria Joseph Dominikus von Habsburg, the grandson of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor. Also making a bid is Gigi Becali, the owner of Romania's Steaua Bucharest soccer club, who is facing kidnapping charges...
Hammonds has reemphasized the importance of handling minor matters within the Houses, and next year, they will be urged to issue warnings in response to minor offenses that occur within them. Evidently, the Board is sometimes used as a threat when local sanctions might be more effective. For example, if a student propped her door, it could be handled within the House and would not require the Board. Hammonds has also committed to making the sequence of events for cases more clear, whether through flow charts or through revised and simplified guides. Across the College, there is a commitment...
...phone said he was from a news Web site—one that I recognized. He told me that someone from The Crimson had given him my name. The Mountain was coming to me! After months of sweaty-palmed interviews and unnoticed cover letters, my hard work in the minor leagues of journalism was finally about...