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...discipline/safety concerns.” Kelley asked that the budget “do a better job of explaining that to everyone.” The 2008-2009 budget—to be voted up or down on April 15—represents a 2.36 percent increase over last year??s budget, with a large proportion of additional funds allocated to personnel-related costs. However, resolving the budgetary gap between the projected proposal expenditures and revenues this year is now expected to result in approximately 3.1 million dollars in spending cuts, including administrative restructuring. “Even...
...coming weeks Sea Shepherd’s decrepit black trawler, the Farley Mowat, will patrol the ice-clad waters of Newfoundland, as Canada’s 2008 seal hunt begins. The Canadian government has increased this year??s permits to allow the killing of 275,000 seals, 98 percent of them babies, in what Watson calls “the world’s largest marine slaughter.” And in spite of new government regulations designed to stop the live skinning and clubbing of seals, Watson says that his crews have already documented seals bleeding...
...paying public-interest jobs simply untenable. Some students who enter public interest law now are forgiven of their loans after graduating, but the loan forgiveness program hardly provides explicit encouragement for this branch of law. The new program seeks to rectify that by guaranteeing a tuition-free third year??a psychological frame shift that will hopefully make a public sector career seem more manageable in terms of debt resolution. By combating the pay disparity between such jobs and more lucrative corporate opportunities, this new tuition aid commendably “levels the field,” allowing students...
...Columbia College admitted 8.7 percent, Stanford University 9.5 percent, and Dartmouth College 13.2 percent. The change was not confined to Ivy League schools and Stanford. Other elite universities faced challenging admissions decisions too. While Bowdoin College’s admit rate of 18.4 percent was nearly identical to last year??s, Dean of Admissions William M. Shain said applicants for the class of 2012 demonstrated “more powerful” qualifications overall than in years past. “It’s definitely the most competitive of the 25 years we have data...
...percentage of students interested in engineering also rose again, from 9.5 percent last year to 11 percent this year??an increase Fitzsimmons attributed to the attraction of Harvard’s new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...