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...Petersen who, at a May meeting of the Faculty, spoke on behalf of students opposing a new student handbook regulation to make student group leaders liable for disciplinary review because of alcohol abuse at their parties. Petersen insisted that the regulation was developed by a “secretive process,” in an ad hoc Committee on Social Clubs whose workings were kept from students. He was rebuffed, with the Faculty voting to approve the new rules...
...UC’s influence over student social life evaporated. The College Events Board completely displaced the UC’s former incompetence in planning college-wide events. Ryan A. Petersen ’08 embarrassed us all with his speech, which pretended to speak on behalf of the student body, at Drew Faust’s installation—a barefaced attempt to deceive students with the tough-talking that his administration neglected to provide in the off-stage negotiations with University Hall. They uselessly watched as the College’s draconian crackdown on social life threatened student...
...Alzheimer’s Association, an organization that conducts research on behalf of those afflicted with dementia, does not currently recommend specific supplements for cognitive health...
...maybe her questionable authenticity threw Klein a curveball. Is there any other explanation for his calling her "a pragmatic moderate"? She has said, "The free market has failed," "Something has to be taken away from some people" and "We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." A Marxist mind-set hardly defines a pragmatic moderate. Douglas Abrams, LOUISVILLE...
...McCain is going back to New Hampshire this weekend, on a Straight Talk Express tour designed with prickly and proud Granite Staters in mind. On Friday, Chuck Douglas, a former New Hampshire Attorney General, personally delivered, on behalf of the campaign, a strongly worded demand that the state investigate a series of scurrilous push polls that have been targeted at Romney's Mormonism. McCain took this step hours before Romney himself did, and the McCain campaign hopes his display of devotion to fair play will appeal to the same New Hampshire voters who leveled the playing field for McCain...