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Make way for the reformers. Last week, by fewer than 50 votes, Beth A. Stewart '00 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. Her running mate, Samuel C. Cohen '00, also triumphed by a narrow margin. Our new leaders pledge to steer the council away from progressive politics and toward more realistic goals. They want to focus on student services and prioritize issues on which they know they can see results...
Faculty diversity, meanwhile, has been deemed a controversial political issue better handled by student groups. Stewart and Cohen plan instead to fight for causes on which they believe they can make more progress. But Faculty diversity is not a political concern supported by a narrow segment of the student body; it is about undergraduate education and the College experience in the most direct sense. And it is an issue about which many of us care deeply. Indeed, in a Crimson survey on race published last week, a vast 72 percent of the student body said the College "needs more" minority...
...more than a year Reno has viewed the scandal as a series of narrow, unrelated legal questions, not a massive plot. That's partly because Reno's a careful prosecutor and partly because the stories of Asian money, fake donors and trading favors for cash have often dribbled out in incomprehensible pieces. But Reno's reluctance to view these parts as belonging to a larger whole may also be the product of the curious way she has managed the department's internal probe. Three months ago, Reno brought in Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles LaBella from San Diego to shake things...
Despite the obstacles, GM officials claim to be satisfied with their racy roadster's first year. Even gasoline-powered sports cars have a narrow market, they point out, and the EV1 is only the first in a line of GM electrics that will presumably include more practical four-seaters. GM also notes that the VCR took 34 years from introduction to significant market penetration; the microwave oven, 30 years; the PC, 15 years...
...carriage Gina M. Ocon '98-'00 steers is too wide to fit into the narrow aisle of the shuttle bus that stops in front of Mather House at 8:20 a.m. on its way to the Science Center every morning...