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Finally, the Committee on Advising and Counseling has made a number of good suggestions (we particularly applaud their decision to reject Yale-style housing), but clear implementation problems threaten their future. Having all members of the faculty involved in advising undergraduates is impractical. And it should not be assumed that faculty will make better advisers than proctors or resident tutors. Indeed, many faculty members don’t know much about undergraduate education beyond the scope of their departments. Instead of faculty involvement, the key to better advising, regardless of who does it, is extensive training and support for advisers?...
...last year partly on a promise that his G.O.P. connections would protect Ellsworth Air Force Base, is livid that it is on the closing list. The Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend Rumsfeld's list, and Bush and Congress must accept or reject it by the end of the year. Until then, Thune has vowed to lead the congressional fight to delay the closings and may vote against key White House legislation--bringing new meaning to the election-year tactic of playing to your base. --By Douglas Waller
...member assembly voted in over the weekend is whether Taiwan's 59-year-old constitution, written before the Communists won the Chinese civil war, should be updated. Its members won't find the task an easy one. The assembly will convene by June 1 to approve or reject a package of constitutional amendments drafted last August by Taiwan's legislature. Some of the changes, like increasing the terms of lawmakers, are uncontroversial. Others, such as allowing national referendums, are anything but: Beijing, which considers Taiwan a renegade province, thinks Chen wants to hold a referendum on independence in the remaining...
...draft reports largely echo and expand upon the recommendations of the April 2004 Report on the Harvard College Curricular Review, but reject last year’s controversial suggestion to move to a Yale-style housing system...
...We’ll reject this and send it back to him,” said Rep. Daniel E. Bosley, D-North Adams, chairman of the House Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Committee, according to the Boston Herald. “I don’t think it will have any traction...