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...soliciting applications for student seats on the College’s Committee to Examine the Role of the Student in College Governance, even though Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith has given no indication as to whether he will accept the UC’s recommendations.The Council will select three non-UC undergraduates and two UC members to fill the five students spots on the committee. Smith will have the final say on the makeup of the committee, and the UC’s selections do not guarantee that he will accept the Council’s choices...
...still flawed, student government: the UC. Perhaps, some things never do change. And if they do change, it’s typically for the worse. For worse is the only possible way to describe the resolution passed by the UC last Monday, demanding that the UC be responsible for selecting the students serving on Dowling II. The resolution, which states that the Council should “recommend and/or appoint” the five students belonging to Dowling II, stands in firm contradiction of the idea of impartial review. No institution should be able to pick its own review board...
...Blattler reminisced. “Everybody gets these emails from their house fellowship advisors, and I guess my brother encouraged me to apply.”But the process was no small task for Blattler. The first essays for the application were due in September of last year. Select essays were then sent to the National Division in October and applicants were notified if they got an interview or not later in October. The interviews were then held in November.“That was actually really neat about the process...you sit in on your interview and interviews happen...
...entanglement,” is at the heart of the exhibit. Of course, in any well curated show the individual pieces mediate and enhance each other, but this process is traditionally not its central feature. The gallery brochure cautions against looking for a unifying theme: “To select the grid as a leitmotif for the show might exaggerate the relationship between art and architecture in Caracas. It might also exaggerate the relationship between the grid and Caracas, and the grid and art.” However, a geometric grid is an important aspect of nearly every work...
...well fall to some 800 party insiders known as super-delegates. Yes, that's right: the perverse result of all this additional democracy, in which more people than ever before will have had a voice, could be that Democrats have to turn to old-style backroom politics to select a nominee...