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...addition, I believe it is improper for elected City officials to appear in person before city boards to promote their positions on various issues. Councillor Duehay, on a consent basis, appears before the Zoning Board and Licensing Board to express his views and opinions. This has a real potential for influencing the outcome of an administrative agency decision. If not in actuality, at the very least, the appearance of impropriety is present in the subtle influence that a person holding public office can have on board members, particularly since board members are appointed by the City Manager, who in turn...
...titles: Fuzzy Systems, Fuzzy Set Theory and Fuzzy Reasoning & Its Applications. The bedtime reading of scientists gone soft in the head? No, these academic tomes are the collected output of 25 years of mostly American research in fuzzy logic, a branch of mathematics designed to help computers simulate the various kinds of vagueness and uncertainty found in everyday life. Despite a distinguished corps of devoted followers, however, fuzzy logic has been largely relegated to the back shelves of computer science -- at least...
...Americans live on a vast patch of the earth, a sweep of scattered geography in which states tumble together around barely visible boundaries, and we have no idea who the hell we are. Of course, various people have tried to find out; we have drifted down the river with Huck Finn, poured across the highways with the Joads, maybe followed Kerouac through his woozy continental high-jinks. We somehow believe that there exists a sense, a spirit, something, that defines this tumbled vastness as distinctly American...
This letter is addressed specifically to all those house masters and superintendents who have perceived a problem with the door-dropping of various materials to their houses, but I hope all of you will read it. I sympathize with the occasional little problem that affects the houses as it would affect any college dormitory at any college, and appreciate that it takes clean-up time and money. Forbidding door-delivery of free materials, however, is a drastic and unnecessary step that offers little gain for the houses involved while depriving students of ideas and information and threatening the financial viability...
...Council improved various aspects of the University Health Services, including the structure for students to submit complaints...