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...your parents and the community. That’s much harder to do when your frame of reality is so fundamentally changed,” says Ann E. Chernicoff ‘03, who moved 3,000 miles from her native Berkeley, Calif., and went from being a casual Reform Jew to a committed member of the Hillel community. “If you’ve always been told that you belong to this tradition, there’s a place to turn, at least initially, and to say, does this have anything to say to me? Can this...
...hasn’t been an easy 28 years for Amtrak. The national railroad company, which has continuously operated at a loss since its inception, is now in danger of being terminated. Since January, the bipartisan Amtrak Reform Council has called for the company to break up, selling its profitable routes to private sector companies while the government maintains responsibility for the rest. The time has come for the government to make a difficult choice: to reinforce and improve the national railway system or to cut off government funding completely. Although Amtrak is plagued by a multitude of problems...
Ellison’s administrative resume is equally impressive—of the three, he has by far the most experience in University Hall. After chairing a committee on graduate student financial aid reform in 1998, Ellison has followed through on that committee’s recommendations as dean of GSAS, winning $4 million in new aid for graduate students last fall...
...said University-wide reform is necessary to create the best possible ethnic studies program...
...issue” attack ads of union and corporate interests. The judiciary should deal with this matter expeditiously given the longstanding restrictions on campaign contributions that are already in place. This new law simply updates and reinforces widely accepted principles by eliminating several loopholes left by the campaign finance reform legislation of the 1970s...