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...added after the event. But a divergent opinion did not justify Wei’s tactics, according to Kwong. “I think at a place like college, you should have a level of respectful decorum for a speaker, and the audience tonight clearly did not understand that,” Kwong said...
...upcoming faculty meeting. The problem is that the report is stalled in consultations and has not been publicly released yet. Until it is released, the faculty cannot vote on its recommendations. At the moment, the administration seems completely preoccupied with the College’s financial troubles. We understand and sympathize with this focus. But, while Ad Board reform will not save a dollar, let alone the $200 million needed to cover this year’s FAS deficit, this is one issue on which a marginal increase in attention from the administration and Faculty would result in considerable goodwill...
...addition to balancing other interests and personal integrity, there is also the issue of paying the bills. Harding, who now teaches only at the Extension School, puts the financial matter bluntly. “If you’re going to be a fiction writer you have to understand that you’re not going to make any money out of it,” he says. “You need to assume a profession to get the paycheck.”DON’T ASK, DON’T TELLEric D. Bennett...
...work with faculty and administrators to establish a sustainable program in ethnic studies,” she said. As for how to win over critics, Lin said the answer is education. “I feel like this mostly stems from the fact that people don’t understand what ethnic studies is,” she said. “People who make those arguments haven’t delved into it in depth. It’s a very challenging field...
...afternoon or a freezing cold January night. Suddenly, vast sections of the U.S. power grid go black. The lights go out, air-conditioning (or heating) shuts down. Once it becomes clear that this is no temporary brownout, the public begins to panic. At the power utilities, engineers can't understand why the network shut off, and can't get it to start up again. It's hours before the truth emerges: a terrorist group (or a hostile country, or some evil-genius hacker) has broken into the computer networks that control the power grid, bringing the U.S. to its knees...