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...without delay, the president said, criminals are being set free--Administration extremists didn't take the time to see how well they knew the unkown quantity they were trying to foist upon Court and country. There were hints that Ginsburg, a student of the University of Chicago's Richard Posner, was more inclined to law-and-economics than to law-and-order. Former colleagues on the Law School faculty suggested we might be surprised by his liberal views on social issues. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink...
...order to provide enough financial aid to everyone who needs it, administrators "are hoping to focus recruiting on people who can pay for all four years, which isn't really in keeping with the need-blind [admissions policy]," Posner said...
Under the proposal, the warden program, similar to Harvard's proctor program, will be cut, and undergraduate hall advisers will take the place of the graduate students who act as wardens, Posner said...
...seems to me that that’s an awful lot of pressure to be putting on one's own peers," said Posner, who said she will serve as a hall adviser next year. "We also don't have the same perspective that graduate students have, so I think that could be dangerous," she said...
Faculty response to the proposals varies, Posner said. "The people who aren't upset are those who've been in the college for forty years and feel that the change is not significant...