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...want is a hedge against rising consumer prices, gold may not be your best option. Consider Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS), which are bonds for which the return rises with the CPI. If you are sold on gold, keep it to 5% of your portfolio. Here are some options...
...psychology. “We’ve designed the concentrations to make it better, based largely on what students are telling us,” Lieberman said. “There is clearly enormous enthusiasm for new clusters.” Current life science concentrators will have the option of staying within the established concentrations, although most are likely to switch, Lieberman said. Members of the Class of 2010, though, will not have the option of concentrating in Biology or Biocehmical Sciences. Freshmen considering life science concentrations have expressed excitement about these new changes. Andew P. Oakland...
...option is for the UC to obstinately redouble its opposition to funding groups that discriminate in their constitutions on any of the bases proscribed in the UC constitution. This position would have the UC eliminate the loopholes that have allowed it to fund events put on by “discriminatory” groups in the past, without regard to the nature of the events themselves...
...funding has on student life. The wording of an organization’s constitution is surely secondary to the nature, audience, and impact of the events it puts on, and if the entire campus stands to benefit from an AACF event, the UC should fund it. Supporters of this option respond that money is fungible and that funding an individual event frees up an organization’s resources for other, more exclusive, and more sinister activities. Fine. But frankly, if UC support would make an event bigger and better, or possible in the first place, for the benefit...
...UC’s second option is to abandon its own vetting process completely and open funding to all CCL-approved student groups. Opponents argue that decisions about funding should be based on the judgement of elected representatives, not administrators. This position is unnecessarily stubborn; what the UC might give up in the power to vet student groups for non-discrimination, it would gain in consistency and coherence. When CCL approves a student group, it considers its membership policies with respect to the College’s non-discrimination policy and federal law, which makes exceptions for single-sex singing...