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...Monica Goodling, counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and liaison to the White House, cited the politically charged and "perilous environment" of the House and Senate judiciary committees in refusing Monday to testify about her part in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. In a letter to the Senate committee, her lawyer says the "potential for legal jeopardy" from "even her most truthful and accurate testimony" is "very real," and cites the recent conviction of I. Lewis Libby for lying during a CIA-leak investigation...
...Civil Rights Project, moved the project this spring to the University of California at Los Angeles. When he announced his departure, Orfield called UCLA “a more conducive atmosphere to studying civil rights.”His departure caused 108 GSE doctoral students to submit an open letter to GSE Dean Kathleen McCartney, which led to last week’s meeting. The letter called Orfield’s departure and the recent departure of other professors studying civil rights and race “particularly devastating.”Students’ “academic preparation...
Graduate students began collecting signatures yesterday for a letter protesting the University’s decision to deny tenure to Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, a leading scholar of pre-modern Japanese history. The petition, which included the names of roughly 50 undergraduate and graduate students as of last night, calls into question Mass. Hall’s commitment to pre-modern Japanese studies. The letter seeks “not only to laud the professor’s qualities as a teacher and mentor, but to make a case for the field of Japanese pre-modern...
...Weisbuch, who has asked his faculty to vote this spring on whether to continue filling out the survey ("If it were up to me, we'd quit"), is helping draft the letter urging his peers to take bolder steps collectively. More than one president in the liberal-arts sub-30 neighborhood - Drew this year is tied for 69th - has said higher-ups need to jump ship first. But even the ?lites are worried about taking the plunge. In recent years, a top-ranked school got a new president who wanted to skip the survey. "I was told we would drop...
...Hence the need for what Lloyd Thacker, a former college guidance counselor and admissions officer, calls "benevolent collusion." Thacker, who started a nonprofit in 2004 with the cat-herding goal of returning sanity to the admissions process, is pushing the current letter-writing campaign with the fervor of an evangelist. And his flock of concerned college presidents gained a few more members after a recent publicity flap. U.S. News was revealed to have considered assigning in its next rankings an arbitrary SAT score to Sarah Lawrence College because the school no longer collects applicants' scores...