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...University of California has reached a financial impasse that cannot be overcome without painful measures. Its Board of Regents recognizes this inconvenient truth and has resorted to increasing tuition costs by an additional $2,500 for the next academic year, a proportional increase of about a third for in-state students. This is an unsavory solution to an unavoidable problem—the Golden State faces empty coffers and a projected deficit in the tens of billions and must make cuts across the board to stay afloat. However, while some tuition increases might be necessary, the in-state students...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Californian Compromise | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Alene G. Anello ’10, the group’s co-president, said that the potluck dinner was in its third annual iteration. It featured a lineup of food that included Asian fried rice, eggplant stew, roasted eggplant, and candied pumpkins, among other food items...

Author: By Damilare K Sonoiki, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vegetarians Give Meatless Thanks | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Neither Bowman-Hysen nor Hayward-Zhang received the majority of first place votes due to the presence of a third-party joke ticket headed by Robert G.B. Long...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: After Chaos, UC Okays New Leaders | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...March 10, 2000. (Recent levels: 2150-2200.) The economy went into a recession that now seems laughably mild. What followed wasn't funny at all: the most divisive and confusing presidential election in history, a discombobulated drama that we once thought could occur only in the Third World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...Transport doesn't have a specific DBE participation target for stimulus-related projects, but it says it exceeded its goal of more than 8% for all federally funded (not just stimulus) work in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Still, given that Florida's workforce is about one-third minority, watchdogs like the MWC suggest the target should be higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Minorities Being Fleeced by the Stimulus? | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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