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...stay in contact with students is positive and his appointment of Kidd is heartening, the responsibility cannot be Kidd’s alone. The delegation of responsibility to the assistant and associate deans should serve to insure that students are heard, not simply add another level of bureaucracy to shield undergraduates from contact with Gross himself. It is necessary for Gross to maintain a personal relationship with as many students at the College as possible—only in knowing the student body can a dean understand and legislate the myriad issues that affect student life...
...worthwhile Teach for America organization was defunded by the Federal Government's AmeriCorps program [IN THE ARENA, Aug. 25]. Limited resources plague even the richest nation in the world. When we insist on funding items like the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and a missile-defense shield with billions upon billions of dollars, we crowd out money for valuable things like education and social programs. President Eisenhower, a five-star general, warned us to increase our scrutiny of defense spending. Nonetheless, we find ourselves with a $400 billion defense budget. Neither Klein nor the rest of us should look past...
...bear on his school. While Bulger’s tenure at the helm of UMass is not without its significant accomplishments—he oversaw increases in both academic standards and funding levels—it was all too often overshadowed by Bulger’s personal choices to shield his fugitive brother from justice...
HONOLULU "Sunglasses are a perennial here. No matter what, everyone wants a pair," says a spokeswoman at the Emporio Armani boutique at Ala Moana Center. The hot look: the "shield," a mono-lens mask, above, that sells...
...government? I say not. I think [Jefferson] intimately connected God and government because it was those rights that God gave us that government was to secure for us. We've changed the First Amendment into a sword to take our life rights from us instead of a shield to protect them...