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...other business, the council approved by universal acclamation a resolution to support the overhaul of study-abroad policies that will be voted on by the Faculty tomorrow. The Faculty legislation would streamline the process of study-abroad approval and make it more accessible to students...
...Unlike the Israelis, Arafat's Palestinian and Arab critics are not calling for his ouster, but instead for an overhaul of the institutions of his governance to make him more accountable. As the siege of Ramallah showed, any attempt by the Israelis to sideline Arafat actually has the opposite effect, forcing even his staunchest Palestinian and Arab critics to rally behind him. Moreover, the Bush administration is keenly aware that the political-military crisis that drew the U.S. reluctantly back into Mideast mediation is in no sense reducible to one man, and Washington remains convinced, for now, that Arafat...
Pryor’s legacy at the IOP has been one of change, as he instituted major overhaul of SAC last year that he said would make the group less exclusive. He previously has said he hoped to “open the doors to hundreds of new students...
...undergraduate enrollment, the English department is by no means an exclusionary women’s domain. “We want to make it a comfortable and open environment for everyone, no matter what their sex,” she stresses. To this end the department recently instituted an overhaul of its entire departmental advising structure, with the hope of creating a more open and accessible environment for prospective concentrators. The department has instituted thrice-weekly e-mail updates, walk-in advising hours and special reading events. Ameer hopes these new initiatives will encourage prospective concentrators...
...afford to wait for every research institution to react to its own lapses. That's the impetus for a sweeping overhaul of the OHRP, designed by director Greg Koski--with advice from a newly motivated Johns Hopkins--to make the agency more aggressive in protecting human subjects. It's also behind legislation that will soon be moving through both houses of Congress. Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado will introduce a bill this week that is aimed at finally giving humans the same legislative protections that animals receive; the rules will apply to all research on humans, not just federally funded...