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Council member Jason L. Lurie ’05 says he is worried that a dean with increased focus on academic life will weaken the council’s role...
...about administrative support for the arts under a president whose artistic commitment is a wildcard. The performing and creative arts face a severe space crunch and need more funding just as a budget squeeze across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) toughens competition for resources. But restructuring may weaken arts administrators’ influence if the OFA moves down the reporting hierarchy, which College officials say is a strong possibility, and the merger of the positions responsible for undergraduate education and student life will eliminate one of the most outspoken advocates for extracurricular arts activity. Meanwhile, curricular review?...
Though restrictions can be said to strengthen the House community, they come at the cost of creating ugly rivalries and resentments between students in different Houses. And even worse, interhouse restrictions weaken the University community as a whole. A recent event at Quincy House necessitated that the dining hall close early, and many Quincy students were turned away at every neighboring dining hall. Students in Houses with restrictions assume that they have a natural and inalienable right to exclude intruders from their dining hall...
...adds that biological weapons in this war at this time are of little use. Iraq?s suspected bio-weapons (anthrax, botulism) take days to weaken the human body and would do little to blunt a fast moving force. He also says coalition troops have biological and chemical weapons detectors and decontamination units in the field, making it tough for bio-weapons to be much of a factor...
...talk of making a civilian top dog to take some of the onus off a military occupation. But a senior White House official tells TIME, "A civilian czar is not what people have in mind." The U.S. feels that one more link in the chain of command would weaken the effectiveness of the operation...