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...forum for public discussion, with representatives talking about real issues and producing new ideas instead of congratulating themselves on following Robert’s Rules of Order.In this sense, the UC needs to do more, not less, as some of its critics have suggested. It should be more aggressive vis-à-vis the administration on issues ranging from extended dining hall hours to the selection of a new president. On many social and political issues, students are left voiceless because the UC stays silent; a new UC could express the general student spirit and opinion. At the same time...
...last chapters of Summers’ tenure—and particularly the relative remove of the Overseers from the decisions made during the final days—saw at least some Board members grow frustrated with their position vis-à-vis the Corporation, even if the lines of communication were more open than before...
...chairs present decided to create four working groups, dealing with the issues of finance, the curricular review, governance, and planning for faculty hires. Some of those subgroups ultimately reshaped FAS operations. For instance, FAS previously approved searches for hires well after Commencement. That put Harvard at a disadvantage vis-a-vis rival schools, which acted much earlier in the spring, chairs say. This year, FAS approved its new faculty searches in late May, they add.“There was a clear evolution...from the crisis of the spring semester ’05 to dealing with urgent issues facing...
...contrast could not be more marked between Putin's increasingly assertive stance vis-a-vis the U.S. and the pliant posture of Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin was always more popular in the West than he was among his countrymen, especially as they felt the effects of his reforms on their standard of living and watched their country's geopolitical status plummet in as little as five years from that of superpower to that of a harmless family drunk...
...community, the reality is that The Crimson’s position vis-à-vis the University Police is similar to the New York Times’ stance vis-à-vis local and state law enforcement agencies. Some members of the HUPD force are special officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Some members of the force are deputy sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. The Crimson took Harvard to court in our effort to gain access to HUPD records because we believe that members of this community should monitor the campus police force vigilantly—just...