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While it is unfortunate that incidents like the ones depicted in the latest set of photographs occurred, we do not want to have a government that systematically suppresses the release of information that could damage its political standing. We believe that the release of the photographs would allow the American people to document the abuse of detainees and create a system in which future mistakes could be prevented. As such, we are extremely disappointed in the Obama administration’s change of heart and hope that this does not mark a turn away from its heretofore transparent and praiseworthy...
...Monday, May 11, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences outlined a wide-ranging set of changes to programs and services across all parts of FAS. It launched a website to share those changes and provide contacts for questions or more information. The website will be the portal for the reporting of further progress and the collecting of broad community input. These recently announced changes to programs and services were the result of a cost-saving effort involving all units of FAS, launched as we began the process of budgeting for fiscal year...
...publicized and explained, our efforts to trim the FAS budget focused on local planning and efficiency-increasing measures, and it asked the community for ideas. It produced an extensive set of suggestions, and the academic deans of FAS approved those that made better use of our limited resources within the context of our core mission. The approved list equates to a $77 million reduction in our annual operating budget but represents only 35 percent of the $220 million deficit that FAS will face in two short years (based on what we know today...
...think about why I am here, I somehow find myself returning to the ideas of value and values. Perhaps what is important about education is, first, to develop and articulate for myself a set of values—whether about social justice or civic participation, art or scholarship—and, second, to learn to produce objects that I believe have value in themselves. The first could be called the ethical and aesthetic side of the word “value,” and the second could be called the productive or material side...
...Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), believe that the detainees should be treated, more or less, under the civil-justice system as described by Article III of the Constitution. The soldiers, misled by former Vice President Dick Cheney, believe that in a time of war, the President has unlimited ability to set the rules necessary to protect the nation. "They're both wrong," says Senator Lindsey Graham, a lawyer-soldier who still serves as a JAG in the Air Force Reserve. "You need a hybrid system, which is why I favor military commissions...