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...explicit provision that officers must look or act a certain way. Instead, these groups leave it up to their constituents to decide who will best represent them as officers. Despite the lack of explicit constitutional provisions, student choice makes it extremely likely that the Black Men’s Forum will always have black officers and the South Asian Association will have South Asian officers. But these likely outcomes are artifacts of student choice, not explicit constitutional limits. Group members can feel that people of the same race best represent them even while reaffirming that anyone, no matter their race...
Audience members responded favorably to the forum...
Last year, the situation on campus had many convinced that Senior Gift was just another avenue to express indignation with the University. Former Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and former Black Men’s Forum President Brandon M. Terry ’05 started “Senior Gift Plus,” which promised to withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence...
...chief executives of 60 companies including Microsoft, Nestl? and corporations as far afield as China and Pakistan. The statement urged governments to "redouble their efforts to break out of the current impasse." A similar plea came from 21 leaders of Pacific Rim countries attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in South Korea last week. They issued a statement urging developed countries to be more flexible on farm subsidies so trade liberalization can move forward...
...testified that ICANN is doing a good job with no interference, ever, from the U.S. government, developing countries insisted that the Internet should be managed by a multinational body such as the UN. The issue was resolved on the first day of the summit by creating an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) made up of governments and civil society groups. Crucially, though, the new body will not have decision-making powers. Score one for Washington...