Word: charter
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ROTC's purported academic mission continues to make a solely extracurricular relationship impossible. Control of a campus-based ROTC would lie not with the University, not with a student charter, but with the United States military. University-endorsed (if not credited) courses would be given by teachers appointed by the Defense Department. The senior commander would have to be given a faculty position...
...City Charter is one of the difficulties. It explicitly bars city officials from participating in the administrative affairs of government, placing all executive power in the hands of a city manager. The system, designed to reduce the corruption and patronage that often characterizes strong-mayor cities, means that elected officials are powerless to respond to many of their constituents' complaints...
...confined to business and consumer news," says CNBC President Michael Eskridge, who oversaw NBC's Summer Olympics coverage last year. "We think that's an area that is underserved." CNBC's contracts with cable systems, he points out, stipulate that the network must stay within its business-news charter; if it expands, the systems can drop...
...time, E4D's charter called for the council's chair to act as the divestment fund's president, and Offut, a self-described "libertarian" who opposed divestment, assumed his role...
...think [the march] really reenergized people," says Jennifer A. Dunne '89, who organized the 11 charter buses that brought Harvard undergraduates to Washington. "It was really exciting to see it happen and come together. I was astounded at the number of people who went." The level of activism at Harvard, too, is on an upswing, she says...