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...past, the Undergraduate Council determined how money from the Student Life Fund would be distributed. However, Dean Hammonds has announced a change: University Hall will now take on this responsibility. While we agree with Dean Hammonds that the UC is not the appropriate body for the task, we remain concerned about the lack of student input in the fund’s appropriation. To correct this, the administration should ensure that a student representative is included in the decision-making process. Specifically, a committee should determine the funds’ distribution—emphasizing transparency—with an undergraduate...
...High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) was intended to replace the Bush Administration's intelligence-gathering procedures for captured terrorist suspects. One of President Obama's first acts after taking office was to suspend his predecessor's controversial detention and interrogation practices, and convene a task force to recommend new ones. When the Department of Justice announced its findings on Aug. 24, among the proposals was the creation of HIG, a mobile team of experienced interrogators, linguists, al-Qaeda experts and others would swing into action to question captured suspects. Intended for deployment overseas, according to Director of National Intelligence...
...Pentagon would not want to build the mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, that would have saved many of those soldiers' lives. Instead of budgeting for MRAPs, the Pentagon was still spending money on outdated weapon systems. So Gates bypassed the normal procurement process, created a special task force, went to Congress and got the money to build them. "Those vehicles saved hundreds of lives and limbs," says a senior Pentagon official. (See TIME's photoessay "Beers at the White House...
Thus considerable support exists for artistically inclined students, and the Task Force has laid down the groundwork for slow but effective expansion of this trove of resources. But its endeavors rely on student engagement as much as the administration’s initiative...
...most bang for its buck. This means thinking about resources that are not strictly financial. For example, the richest resource we have is the intelligence and energy of our students,” said Kelsey. “If we are to realize the dream of the Task Force, we need the students’ involvement...