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...election of Zach Fox as editor in chief of the Daily Trojan, objecting to his call for greater financial transparency and a reorganization of the paper’s senior positions. The administration’s willingness to actively intervene in the student publication’s elections raised serious concerns about the independence of the collegiate press. Universities, like society at large, rely on a free press to provide a check on administrative authority and misuse of power. Administrative oversight, has a chilling effect by forcing students to weigh their journalistic duty against fear of disciplinary sanction from...
...Council, through a subcommittee chaired by Jerry Goldberg ’57, administered a college-wide survey about overcrowding in the Houses, tutorials and classes. The survey results, compiled in a report entitled “Growth and Development of Harvard College,” showed that the most serious problem lay within the Houses, as 71 percent of respondents felt that the Houses were overcrowded. In addition, the report highlighted problems springing from the overcrowding, including a lack of student-faculty contact and feelings of isolation among students...
...showed that a bunch of Harvard kids could get together and put on a serious dramatic production,” Poppy says...
...just as in Boston and New York, serious criminal activity in this city of non-angels has declined markedly on Bratton's watch. Since 2002, there are 31% fewer serious crimes and homicides are down almost 44%. Civil rights lawsuits against the department have declined, as have the number of settlements to non-Rampart-scandal plaintiffs. And under Bratton, L.A. has been the birthplace of innovative counterterrorism initiatives, such as Operation Archangel, which identifies critical infrastructure and resources in the L.A. area and develops a multi-agency response to protect them against catastrophic attack . "In terms of the three goals...
...High-altitude international soccer competition has never caused a player serious health problems and it certainly has never killed anyone," notes Bolivian sports medicine specialist Dr. Guillermo Aponte. "On the contrary, high heat and humidity has cost several lives. If FIFA really wanted to protect players they wouldn't be focusing on altitude...