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...example, four separate groups (ERG/CUE the Academics committees of both the assembly and RUS, the Educational Policy subcommitte of CHUL) are all charged with investigating academic policies. Such an overlap is not only wasteful, but also potentially divisive because the different groups invariably reach different conclusions on the same issue...

Author: By Ross Boylan, Andrew Hermann, Peter Ohtaki, Sharon Orr, and Natasha Pearl, S | Title: $60,000 for What? | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...does not even officially recognize. But by mandating that all undergraduate committee members be drawn from a student council, the proposed system allows for more organized and unified--and, therefore, representative--student government. Because student committee members would report back to the council, that body could act to check overlap in committee topics of discussion. And, perhaps, the establishment of a recognized council might force the Faculty to take student opinion more seriously...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Mccarthy, | Title: A Possible First Step | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...there are no coalitions for any individual changes, but there are different people throwing in suggestions," Capuano said. Many of them overlap on proposals to override some of the mechanisms and override restrictions of the amendment. Cities and towns can override Proposition 2 1/2 only in a biennial election...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: State Legislature to Meet Tomorrow | 1/6/1981 | See Source »

...about religion. The United Ministry is an official group which for years has been inserting a pamphlet that, as its former director say, introduces students to the personnel and the programs of the United Ministry." And the American Repertory Theater (ART) is different too. Both Epps, who explains the overlap between ART and the official Loeb Drama Center, and Law agree they would allow ART to stuff its promotional pamphlets into the packets. (There is, of course, confusion over whether this has happened in the past...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Out of the Closet, Into the Packet | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

...these tasks usually overlap. Most acquisition editors must be adept with the pencil as well as the fork. And they must not only coax a blocked author into action, but also negotiate with copyreaders, handle the details of jacket design and flap copy, and send galleys out to well-known writers in the hope they will respond with enthusiastic blurbs. Once such jobs are completed, editors must become in-house cheerleaders, urging their publicity, advertising and sales departments to make an extra effort on behalf of their books. The average editor is doing all this on at least a dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Decline of Editing | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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