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...UC’s decision to censure its vice president was bold and unprecedented??but necessary nonetheless. Since it passed major internal reforms in 1995, the UC has never censured one of its members. Thus, we applaud the council’s use of this constitutional provision despite a lack of precedent. It provided the proper forum to show disapproval for McLeod’s actions, which included authorizing an inappropriate email that was sent from the ucpres@fas account. The message’s premature and unproven accusations were distributed in negligence of UC and EC procedure...
...Still, both professors in FAS and College administrators say that it is unfair to compare the legacy of Gross to the “unprecedented?? reality Hammonds is currently facing...
...Space constraints threaten the democratic nature of the House system today. The “unprecedented?? housing crunch, as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 termed it, has resulted in a ban on transfer admissions for the next two years. Not only does this limit a potential source of diversity and peer learning for undergraduates, but it also drives House occupants away from their cramped quarters to decamp in inevitably less microcosmic facilities, like student organizations, final clubs, and off-campus venues...
According to Smith, administrators assumed FAS would have $750 million in endowment funding available to them for next year’s budget. But if outside estimates projecting “unprecedented?? endowment losses of 30 percent prove accurate, Smith said, that figure would be slashed to around $550 million, leaving the Faculty at least $200 million in deficit if plans are not modified...
...meeting comes more than a week after University President Drew G. Faust alerted the community in an e-mailed statement of the need to consider greater financial constraints in the face of an “unprecedented?? economic downturn. But in interviews yesterday, many department chairs said they have not yet been informed what the new caution will entail and hope that today’s meeting will begin to answer their questions...