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...some determination must be made if Harvard wants to continue to take Native American ethnicity into account when making admissions decisions. No matter what admissions officials say, it’s clear that a non-white ethnicity can, in certain circumstances, be a positive factor in admissions decisions. The onus is on Harvard, then, to ensure that these decisions are made with full and accurate disclosure from all applicants...
Ultimately, then, the onus is on both the UC and the College Dean’s Office (which assigns classroom space) to decide whether a coalition-sponsored event is really as advertised. In the UC’s case, current, ongoing reforms will hopefully lead to more specific definitions about what the UC will and will not fund. Until FiCom meshes its group-based discrimination clause with its project-based funding architecture, there will be no lasting solution. The Dean’s Office must also develop its own, clearly-explicated policies, so that coalition-sponsored events of the future...
Without the Supreme Court’s intervention, the onus is now upon state governments to reform the redistricting system. Some have already taken steps to overhaul their redistricting processes. Independent commissions have drawn the lines in Iowa since the 1990 census and in Arizona since the 2000 census. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has made redistricting one of his top legislative priorities, and the Florida Democratic Party has also made plans to introduce redistricting efforts. While these recent efforts are laudable, many of them are still overtly political. California Republicans, such as Schwarzenegger, support redistricting in large part because...
...onus lay squarely on the forward’s shoulders when he returned to the lineup the following evening against the Saints—not as a member of one of the higher lines on which he had previously skated, but on the Crimson’s gritty, hard-nosed, physical fourth line...
...Badaracco put the onus of restoring Summers’ leadership capacity on FAS faculty...