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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE "For me, products don't have to be shiny and new," says Frank. "They can be worn and rusted, and that adds character." His latest creation: Inkuku, a chair made entirely from plastic shopping bags, following a traditional African practice of using everyday discarded plastics to make objects for the home...
...Secretary of the Administrative Board and Assistant Dean of the College John T. O’Keefe left for Wellesley last summer, and the creation of the Office of Advising this year—led by recently appointed Rinere—has displaced the duties of three deans...
...closer Monday night to resolving the future of its Campus Life Committee (CLC). And while the CLC’s future still remains in doubt, many council members spoke out Monday against dissolving the committee and reducing the size of the council. Council leaders said last week that the creation of a new College-funded social programming board has made the restructuring of CLC inevitable. CLC reform was discussed last week at the UC’s Rules Committee. UC members Monday night continued that discussion in front of the whole council. One possible option could be the dissolution...
...backing away from his earlier call for nationalized standardized testing. This is a welcome turn of events that we hope will lead to an official abandonment of the proposal and a move to more constructive approaches to higher education reform. Rather than wasting human and financial resources on the creation of more bureaucracy, the government should redirect and refocus its efforts on actually improving higher education. This can be done by further developing its financial assistance programs to enhance the accessibility of higher education to students across the nation. In the meantime, businesses , which were some of the prime drivers...
...conference call with Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. Focused as he has been on Iraq, the Secretary isn't preoccupied: his influence is felt across the board, on arms control, China policy, the North Korean crisis and the still fruitless hunt for bin Laden. He has backed the creation of the Homeland Security Department and jump-started a military command to support its work. But he drew the line when Congress pressed the President to place all U.S. intelligence assets, including military intelligence, under CIA control. Among those in the Bush inner circle, Rumsfeld is closest to Cheney philosophically...