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...Council voted to go into executive session twice yesterday—drawing upon a measure taken only two other times in the previous two UC administrations. In both prior cases in the past two years, the minutes from the closed portions of the meetings were later released. But the Council voted not to make public the minutes from the first executive session of yesterday’s meeting—a decision that the UC’s Student Affairs Committe Chair Tamar Holoshitz ’10 later decried...
...while the incoming Class of 2013 will not have a choice to make with regard to curriculum, it is unclear what their understanding of Gen Ed might be upon matriculation...
...come away with the win, but Princeton played slightly better than we did.” Crimson sophomore Mia Kabasakalis tore her way through the par-72, 6018-yard course, leading her team with a total score of 154, which put her in a tie for fifth. Building upon a first-day 78 with a second-day 76, she finished only four strokes behind Eva Mayr of Fairleigh Dickinson, who earned medalist honors at 150. “Mia’s been playing really well,” Rhoads said. “I’ve been expecting...
...However, the release of the memos was accompanied by a statement declaring “it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel expanded on this statement in a weekend interview, declaring that the president “believes that [those who devised policy] should not be prosecuted either, and that’s not the place that we go.” We find this...
...brutal treatment of “high value detainees” at the hands of American interrogators. In contrast to previous statements by Bush officials in which specific forms of interrogation were never discussed, these OLC memos specify particular techniques, ranging from facial slaps to waterboarding. Upon learning that one detainee had a fear of stinging insects—the OLC authorized confining him in a small box with insects–a technique that seems eerily reminiscent of Orwell’s Room...