Word: oversight
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...aging, dilapidated warehouse hardly accomodates the athletic needs of this vigorous student body. Moreover, on a campus dotted with new classrooms, dining halls and sporting facilities for varsity athletes, the MAC stands out as the Rudenstine Administration's greatest oversight. Despite interminable pleas from students, nothing has been done apart from the purchase of a scant few treadmills. This situation must change. It is Rudenstine's obligation to build his students a non-varsity athletic center worthy of the Harvard name...
...would like to comment on a couple of points. First, as the students interviewed indicated, a proposal for improved student oversight (in the form of thesis committees formed well before the student's defense) was made to the chemistry faculty by the graduate student Quality of Life (QOL) Committee in November...
...belief, though, that Harvard has some responsibility to monitor the choices available to highly driven students such as Jason, to make sure they don't find themselves in the situation he did. Greater student oversight from other faculty members is an important departmental step toward achieving this goal; recognizing faculty achievement in mentoring on a university-wide basis is also a laudable effort...
WASHINGTON: The contempt is running both ways between Dan Burton and Janet Reno. After Burton's House Oversight Committee finally voted to cite the attorney general for contempt for refusing to play ball with Burton, Reno was icily defiant at an afternoon Q&A, calling the citation "a form of political tampering that no prosecutor in America can accept." In this case, the tampering shouldn't run very deep. The full House would have to endorse any contempt citation, and that vote wouldn't come at least until September. The next stop? Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who would supervise...
While Congress debates two competing proposals to give patients a bill of rights, many states have passed their own regulations in the past several years. Those regulations can apply to only about 60% of Americans because of a 1974 federal law that exempts self-insured plans from state oversight. But Governors are lobbying hard to change that. Some of the most progressive states...