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...disciplinary portion is the piece that the Leaning Committee had the least ability to make changes on, and its certainly one of the most difficult pieces of the system,” Levit-Shore said. “It’s the piece that still really needs to be rigorously reviewed and fixed...
...during the 1990s, Ford was part of the first wave of disabled students who received any protection at all. Legislation promising accommodations and services to people in his situation was first drafted less than 30 years ago. Today that first group of disabled students makes up an increasingly large portion of undergraduates attending regular four-year colleges...
While students rejected a mandatory fee, had that portion of the referendum passed Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II said he doubted that Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 would have supported...
...diet industry is in distress. Massive numbers of dieters have migrated to low-carb strategies in the past couple of years, exiting programs that emphasize portion control. The heavyweights of the diet industry, Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, are feeling the pinch. "Any time there is anything new in the market, it is going to affect clients who want to lose weight quickly," says Cozette Phifer, spokeswoman at Jenny Craig. She concedes that new business is depressed but asserts that the dip won't last long. Both companies say they have refrained from introducing low-carb items because their nutritionists...
...drives in New York in an attempt to create a Haitian-American voting bloc, and he is compiling a computer database of Haitian-American voters in the U.S. The average annual per capita income in Haiti is just $440, a figure supplemented by many Haitian Americans who send a portion of their wages to relatives back home. Vernet, whose resume includes an unsuccessful run for the New York City Council in 2001, argues that because of those financial links, increasing the political and economic fortunes of Haitian Americans will have an impact in Haiti...