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...Intercollegiate Athletics, a watchdog group, 85% of the presidents of schools with major athletic programs feel that compensation for football and basketball coaches is excessive. "The commission is concerned that the commercial values attached to college sports programs are becoming more important than the educational values for the student athletes," says Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission. "That can cause problems if 'win at all costs' becomes the dominant mentality...
...group’s archives are visible to everyone, but members must join through the Harvard system, Majadla said. Majadla, an international student from Palestine, advertised the group through the International Students list, because many of the students staying on campus are either international students, thesis researchers, or athletes...
...Council. Forgive us. But who can call it a satisfying school year without an appearance made by our governing body? It all began on the night of Nov. 19, when the UC Election Commission decided to "de-certify" the results of the presidential election released that night, leaving the student body in confusion and the decision pending. Less than an hour later, a message signed off by then-UC Vice President Kia McLeod '10 was sent from the official UC presidential e-mail address, stating that then-vice presidential candidate Eric N. Hysen '11 may have had access...
...those were the numbers. The reality of the souring fiscal climate hit especially close to home when Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith unveiled in May a series of sweeping cost-cutting measures throughout FAS, which left few areas of student life untouched: fewer hot breakfast offerings, the closure of two campus cafes, the downgrading of three junior varsity teams to club status, and even reduced shuttle service. The cutbacks published on the FAS Web site amounted to $77 million in projected savings, or a third of the total $220 million projected annual deficit that FAS administrators...
...another government had identified him as a person of some concern. British officials barred Abdulmutallab from entering last May after he submitted the name of a questionable school in an application to extend his student visa. That fib bounced him to a U.K. suspicious-persons list. "If you are on our watch list," British Home Secretary Alan Johnson told BBC Radio on Monday, "then you do not come into this country." But under British policy, this information was not shared with U.S. officials because Abdulmutallab had not been linked to terrorism. (Why was Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab banned in Britain...