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...three faculty from related departments and other universities sit on each ad hoc committee. Those who have gathered in the Perkins Room for ad hoc committee meetings say that the president’s personality changes the atmosphere of the meeting—and that Summers is serious and thorough, especially when compared to his predecessors.“It’s not pro forma. Different presidents have had different approaches to the ad hoc—I remember one president who never asked one question on a committee,” says Philip A. Kuhn...
...abnormal 12 violations at their last inspection in February, while fast-food joint b.good on Dunster Street outperformed other popular Square establishments, with zero violations in March.Although food-handling violations attract the most attention, there is more to sanitation than just clean dishes. The inspection process is intricate and thorough, involving hands-and-knees investigation and sometimes lasting for hours.‘CRITICAL VIOLATIONS’ On a warm but blustery Friday, a baseball-cap-clad inspector, Lauren Sullivan, with flashlight in hand, began her inspection of Redline restaurant on JFK Street. Although Fallon does not usually tag along...
...Goss spokeswoman Jennifer Millerwise Dyck would not discuss details but said the unauthorized disclosure was discovered in the course of "thorough internal investigations" that examined which CIA officers might have had access to classified information that had appeared in the news media. "Through the course of these investigations, a CIA officer acknowledged having unauthorized discussions with reporters in which the officer knowingly shared sensitive intelligence," Millerwise Dyck said. "Every person who works at the CIA signs a secrecy agreement specifically stating they're prohibited from discussing classified information with any individual who is not properly cleared to receive that material...
...they wanted; they are stuck controlling budgets and planning social soirées. This is the system of indirect election—leaders are assigned to their posts by the UC, and not voted into them by the student body. As it stands today, indirect elections discourage sensible and thorough platforms when candidates are running. Since students do not know which committee they will eventually be on, they run campaigns filled with tedious generalizations and clichéd trivialities—“longer dining hours” anyone? A lack of platforms has also resulted in UC elections...
...blame the rape victim. But the Duke lacrosse situation is not, thus far, a Jane Doe case. Lattimore’s concern—that the media firestorm has played a major role in discrediting the alleged victim, an exotic dancer—has been substantially outweighed by the thorough vilification of the ostensibly rich, white, privileged team members and the elitist university they represent. Never have I heard a Duke student utter, “Well, she is a stripper.” Blaming the victim and using her occupation to destroy her credibility cannot be condoned. But typecasting...