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...Jewett '57, minority student representatives voiced their concerns over the continuing lack of minority presence both in the faculty and in the administration. With the recent round of musical chairs in the administration, minority student groups are watching closely to see how the College goes about filling two currently vacant administrative posts: dean of admissions and director of the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...Craigie Arms, who began to suspect that the University had little intention to rent them their apartments over the long term. The building's residents discovered several apartments stripped of appliances and fixtures. Even toilets were missing. Heaps of garbage accumulated in certain units which the University purposefully kept vacant in a city with fewer than three percent of its rental apartments vacant...
...tenants affiliated with Columbia were quickly relocated to other apartments in the Morningside Heights area--where the university owns 4800 units of housing, more than 200 of which were vacant at the time...
...here. I'm staying," said Paul Volcker last week to a relieved audience of international bankers. With those unequivocal words, the Federal Reserve chairman squelched rumors that he would leave his post to assume the presidency of the World Bank, which will become vacant when A.W. Clausen steps down next year. At a Washington conference sponsored by the American Stock Exchange, Volcker admitted that "the question arose" of his taking the World Bank job, but added, "My answer was no." Federal Reserve officials confirmed that the Administration had formally asked the chairman to replace Clausen...
...cholesterol is popularly regarded as an enemy, the body needs it to manufacture new cell membranes, steroid hormones and bile acids. Made primarily in the liver and also obtained through food, cholesterol travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...