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Eoghan W. Stafford ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...incident that prompted Fridays’ column was the allocation of funds to bring a concert and a comedian to campus to do two separate shows for students. Some proposed that doing so would eclipse the council’s more important funding duties. They are right in their impulses to protect student groups and strive for fiscal responsibility—but wrong to continue to do so when any legitimate basis for their fears have been erased...
Friday’s column would have us believe that House Committees (HoCos) and student groups were in serious danger of not getting funded. That is just plain misleading. The council has constitutional guarantees against that, and enough money to live up to the commitment. Fully 70 percent of all council money must go to student groups via the grant system. And there is a strong precedent for allocating at least 20 thousand dollars to the HoCos every semester. And the recent trend has been to increase the funding going to these groups. Last year, student groups and HoCos...
Predicting just how strong a hurricane will grow, however, remains more art than science, which is why my seatmate, NOAA scientist Joe Cione, has been seeding the Gulf with devices known as AXBTs (airborne expendable bathythermo- graphs), which measure the temperature of the water column. The chief weakness of hurricane- intensity forecasts, Cione believes, is the lack of information about the state of the ocean as a storm churns through. Warm water, after all, provides the fuel that supplies a hurricane with energy, and in Ivan's case, Cione is surprised to find that the water in this region...
...KLEIN'S COLUMN "WHAT THE SWIFTIES Have Cost Us" [Sept. 6], on the way political attack ads like those by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have stifled real political debate, was refreshing. It is very disheartening that politics has become a constant bashing of opponents instead of focusing on the issues and actually doing something to address them. It's especially discouraging when you consider what good might be done with the funds that are used to wage misdirected political wars...