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...addition to expanding the number of seminars offered, the University should allow students to count them for departmental credit. Freshman seminars, like tutorials, offer an intense exploration of issues presumably germane to the studies of at least one department. Seminars should therefore be accepted for departmental credit, either within a naturally related concentration or for one of the Core requirements. Accepting seminars for credit should accompany an expansion of the number of students who can take them; for example, first-years who accept advanced standing should have the option, which they currently lack, to take a seminar during spring term...
This would finally allow the phasing out of the decrepit Nut Island plant, but would also result in the first of several water and sewer rate increases that would eventually more than triple rates region-wide...
...real union, of course, but a sort of pre-union: a collective bargaining unit that would allow students, and not the companies, to set the terms of recruiting season. Faced with the options of negotiating with the union or losing access to their most desirable recruits, companies would be under great competitive pressure to recognize the union...
...vice president would spend part of about $115 billion to boost teacher salaries, provided the instructor is certified. He'd force under-performing schools to shape up. He also promises to triple the number of charter schools. Gore would also allow parents to invest in a tax-free savings account for college tuition...
Bush would allow younger workers to invest part of their payroll taxes--about 2 percent of their income--in personal retirement accounts. He promises not to raise payroll taxes and says he won't cut benefits for current retirees. Since the money paid into Social Security by workers now is paid directly to older beneficiaries, the Gore campaign wonders where Bush will make up the incomes slated for the new personal retirement accounts...