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...don’t think we’ve done the thorough intropection required to think up an effective and worthwhile proposal, and we certainly haven’t reached out to the student body in the way that we did when we were considering social programming reform,” Abdallah wrote...
...debate over OSC has extended beyond the UC’s e-mail list to the blogosphere. Campus blog Team Zebra has written extensively on the reform proposals, and Team Zebra writer and former council member Neeraj “Richie” Banerji ’06 has also sent messages over the UC’s open list criticizing OSC as an unnecessary third committee...
...serve a function, functions don’t exist to serve the UC.Since the UC refuses to redress their ineptitude when it comes to restructuring, students should do so. We call on students to exercise their constitutional right to organize a petition and force a referendum on UC reform. Specifically, we advocate the dissolution of the CLC to a “2x2 system” in which the UC is structured around the two remaining committees with two representatives from each district. With social programming outside the jurisdiction of the UC, downsizing will lead to increased efficiency and sensitivity...
...government had fully expected such a clash. More than 10,000 black-clad riot police had sealed off entire areas of the city in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from expressing their support for two pro-reform judges who were scheduled to appear in front of a disciplinary hearing that morning. The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud during last year's parliamentary elections. Their case is fast becoming a cause celebre in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak...
...with remaining demonstrators, chasing them down alleyways and cornering them against barricades. "I saw some of them being carried into police trucks while their noses and mouths were bleeding," said Bahgat, the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights. "As soon as the judges arrived to offer the reform movement the moral leadership it direly needed, the government realized how dangerous these government demonstrations could be," Bahgat said...