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Their idea, Gonsalves and Trembaly say, was to create an unprecedented challenge to fears about the millennium computer...
This is not to say that these individuals will not do a good job on the committee. Many of the students might be extremely experienced or otherwise qualified for the position. Still, the fact that there has been no open application process for the positions, nor any real disclosure about how exactly the Trust will be run, is deeply troubling. Will these handpicked student representatives be voting members of the committee with equal status to the other members? Who will preside over the committee? What kind of criteria will they employ for dispensing funds...
...Cashman's reaction was typical of the way sports people treat incursions by the real world into the sports community--an inevitable tendency to say that athletes' personal lives, or higher ideals, or commitments to virtues that aren't sports-related are forever more significant...
...poor reputation of today's council comes from a mismatch between what it calls itself and what it actually does. Many current council members do a good job trying to make the campus a better place. But it's a joke to say they "govern." Scrap these farcical elections and pretensions of democracy, and the council will have a clearer role on campus and the flexibility to accomplish more...
...Critics say the ADHD "epidemic" - which, depending on who's giving the diagnosis, can cover nearly any child who's ever nodded off in class or can't stand waiting in lines - is merely a social byproduct of modernity: Children raised on cable television and video games have short attention spans. But by siding with medicine as the treatment of choice, the NIMH says that there's a clear biological component that can be chemically modified. That's not to say that every time a kid acts up we should drug him. "This is not just handing out Ritalin...