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...centered on its financial woes. According to one member of the committee, its budget has not kept pace with inflation and an expanding program. One solution proposed by a committee member was to replace the unlimited meal plan students currently use with a limited meal option. However, this could detract from House life and force dining hall workers to reject some students at the door, the representative noted. The committee members also gave feedback on a new House Life survey, which awaits approval from the Council of Masters and the Resident Deans of the Houses before it is given...
William James, an Extension School student working toward a citation in legal studies, says that “of course there are obvious differences [between a course in Second Life and real life], which can detract from or add to the experience. Some people don’t have the confidence to interact in a classroom, especially with one of the world’s greatest law professors, but can do so in Second Life...
...shooting longer-range missiles than it had ever used, forcing the 1 million Israelis in the north of the country--a sixth of the nation's population--into bomb shelters and paralyzing that region's economy. Jerusalem believes Hizballah is serving Iran's interests, perhaps to detract attention from Tehran's controversial nuclear program. Says Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister of Public Security: "We thought Hizballah would not sacrifice Lebanon on the Iranian altar. They did it very clearly, and it was contrary to Israel's assessments...
...take more liberal arts electives, as well. The proposal establishes a coherent plan by which all of these beneficial changes can happen. The only possible objection to the expansion of DEAS appears to be monetary. With FAS running a large deficit, any money spent on DEAS should not detract from resources that other parts of FAS badly need. The same departmental turf wars that have doomed recent attempts at creating new concentrations could sink DEAS’ expansion. But whether the Faculty deems DEAS’ expansion to be critical or not, Faculty members should know that the financial impact...
Cambridge Public School Committee members questioned whether a proposed roundtable discussion on the system’s declining enrollment would detract from other pressing school issues at a meeting last night. The motion to host the roundtable with the City Council, proposed by first-term committee members Luc Schuster and Patricia M. Nolan ’80, came in response to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley’s statment at a meeting of the city’s Finance Committee last Thursday that Cambridge could not continue to “pour money into a school system that...