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...Officers trekked to 180 Longwood Ave. in response to two individuals who allegedly seized computers from a building without proper paperwork last Saturday. But police determined that the individuals did, in fact, have the authorization to remove the computers after...
...processing. Such a feature is undoubtedly technologically feasible, and would save time for both students—who would be spared long walks and the experience of writing $2 personal checks—and the registrar—who would no longer have to process those checks and additional paperwork...
...students interested in studying abroad. Just five years ago, Harvard offered only two programs abroad, leaving most students to look elsewhere for more varied course offerings. If their hunt for a program through Harvard’s scattered resources proved successful, they would be greeted by mounds of paperwork and bureaucracy in the way of petitions for credit. Thankfully, today, much of the frustrating hurdles have been done away with, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) administrators can be found eagerly pleading with students to go abroad through brochures, fairs, and advising. Nevertheless, more can be done. Financial burden...
...size of individual grants shrinks, university researchers have to win more of them to keep research going, which requires enormous amounts of extra paperwork. "It's decreased their quality of life," says Paul Jennings, provost of Caltech and a civil engineer. When students see how much time a professor spends on bureaucratic busywork, says Jennings, they say, "I don't want to do that." It's not just red tape either, says Paul Nurse, president of Rockefeller University and a 2001 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine. "If we compare what our best undergraduates get paid as a graduate student...
...were the only issue, there are some relatively easy fixes. The legal standard Justice Department lawyers must meet to obtain a FISA wiretap warrant could be lowered from the current threshold that there's "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed or about to be committed. The paperwork required with a FISA warrant application could be trimmed. In emergencies, FISA now allows the attorney general to approve a wiretap as long as he gets court authorization within 72 hours; that time frame could be lengthened. FISA could also be changed to give intelligence agencies the authority to quickly...