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...Treasurer Rosario Marin refused to drink the ice water IOP volunteers put on her podium. Adverse to water that has any hint of chill, Marin would not speak until someone tracked down bottled, lukewarm water for her. Warren Beatty needed just the right microphone, according to Forum Director Bill White. And, White says, noted feminist activist Angela Davis barely stifled her anger until a bag of her favorite brand of tea was produced. In short, says IOP Forum Committee member Jonathan Chavez ’04, speakers sometimes “act like real asses...
Perhaps it is no shock that student voices will be muted in the ears of the new dean—after all, the restructuring itself was done in an outrageously secretive manner. Had the bureaucratic shakedown been on the table in any public forum in advance—rather than being hastily introduced alongside Lewis’ firing—students and Faculty could at least have voiced their concerns and had some chance of being heard. Instead, the new plan has been foisted on those it will most affect, without even a nod towards community consultation...
Verba said the Faculty ought to distinguish between policies relevant and irrelevant to academic life in determining which debates to bring to the Faculty forum. While Faculty members should be free to address questions of divestment individually, he said, the Faculty should debate and be allowed to take a stance on an issue as close to the interests of the University as academic freedom...
...have both advocated a more integrated global economy. Summers introduced Zedillo’s ARCO Forum speech on the subject last spring, and last night Summers delivered the second of three speeches he will give defending globalization...
...last night he returned to more familiar territory—economics—defending industrialization before a packed ARCO Forum...