Word: shifts
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...Dean Kagan, said Dein. Staying in touch with student concerns and communicating them to the administration will be the main focus of the student government, said Aune. Student government leaders have served as liasons between administrators and students on major reforms like the Law School’s recent shift in grading policy and the decision to advance its recruitment schedule, said David K. Kessler ’04, the outgoing student government president. Dean Kagan has received widespread praise for making the environment at the Law School more student friendly, and both the newly elected president and vice-president...
...first African-American president. “It’s a milestone election,” Dean said. “The most important thing Obama’s election means to us, I think, is not just [his race] but that this is a new paradigm shift in who runs America.” Dean also discussed the power of the Internet in grassroots campaign movements, as well as the importance of using a “50-state strategy,” in which Democrats compete for votes in traditionally Republican states. Dean spent most...
...every right to believe that what they are doing is just as valuable as handing over cash. Indeed, the charity world puts a cash value on volunteers' time--$19.51 an hour, estimates Independent Sector, a think tank for charities. But food banks still need supplies to distribute, and volunteers' shift toward time, not money, is only part of what threatens nonprofit budgets for years to come. Traditional bastions of financial support have plenty of their own problems. Corporations and foundation endowments have been crushed by the stock market. State governments, a key source of fee-based support, are seeing slumping...
...graduate student Leonid Fridman founded the Society of Nerds and Geeks, citing a need to correct “prevalent and harmful” anti-intellectual attitudes. He editorialized: “We are not clamoring for a single-minded pursuit of academic excellence. We are simply urging a shift of values…There is no necessary connection between striving for knowledge and being a social misfit. In many cultures where intellect is valued more highly than it is here, academic achievement and social success go hand in hand.” SONG garnered national attention and then, within...
...politics began to shift during her time at the University of California-Santa Barbara and radicalized further following her graduation. After moving to Berkeley in 1972, Soliah befriended Angela Atwood, an aspiring actress who introduced her to members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the domestic terrorist sect best known for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst...