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...would have provided cable at little or no cost to the University, administrators stonewalled and then rejected his plan without offering a clear explanation, raising questions about transparency and their willingness to improve student life.The Crimsonreading.com and cable debacles were only preludes to the year’s true firestorm, which came in the struggle over the cancellation of the UC Party Fund.In early October, then-Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam sent shockwaves through the undergraduate community by imperiously canceling the UC Party Fund, which had until that point supplied $1,750 per weekend for parties open...
...Tyler remembers returning to an uneasy campus in the fall as a second-year law student. He says that his white classmates were at first “hostile” towards their efforts, and other black students were taken aback by the firestorm sparked by Vorenberg’s summer letter and its coverage in the national media...
Gianfranco Fini, the president of the Italian Parliament, is facing a firestorm of controversy after saying that the May 1 burning of Israeli flags in Turin by far-left protesters was "much more serious" than the savage beating of a 29-year-old that same day in Verona by a neo-Nazi gang. The victim of the beating, Nicola Tommasoli, died late Monday after several days in a coma. Five young fans of the Verona soccer team have been arrested for the murder...
...hundred miles away in New Haven, the prospect of menstrual blood and zygote parts is raising eyebrows. Aliza Shvarts, a Yale arts student, ignited a media firestorm last week when she refused to acknowledge that her senior art project, in which she sought to regularly conceive and abort a slew of fetuses over the course of nine months, had actually been a hoax.Shvarts, a senior in Yale’s Davenport College, claims to have assembled a number of “fabricators” for her project who, at regular intervals in the last year, provided her with sperm...
...notion that military spending is all about national defense rather than hometown pork is being seriously tested by the firestorm triggered by last week's awarding of a $40 billion Air Force contract to a joint venture including the European parent of Airbus. The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Corporation and the U.S.-based Northrop Grumman beat out Boeing in the race to supply aerial tankers, making a foreign corporation responsible for a key piece of U.S. military hardware...