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...second major area that needs to be addressed by the new president are the current problems with the faculty. It remains to be seen whether current President Neil L. Rudenstine will make good on his promise to greatly increase the number of tenured faculty at the University. But regardless of whether his new professors are tenured by next year, granting tenure to faculty and retaining junior faculty members must be high priorities of the next president. In addition, the next president should help foster diversity among the new faculty to make up for the obvious problem of homogeneity...
...latter case, the numbers agree with me that authentic politics don't stand a fighting chance: Last Thursday's vice presidential debate, broadcast during prime time, drew the exact same number of viewers (25 million) as the 'West Wing" first episode this year. Keep in mind that the figure for the debate was an aggregate of viewers watching four major broadcast channels and several cable stations...
Pedersen also reminded the Faculty of the importance of offering a sufficient number of Core classes each semester...
...gets worse. Another less-known but far more insidious injustice infects the program. Hidden on the internship application is a box applicants check if they desire to be evaluated "only under equal opportunity criteria." This sly sentence attempts to obscure the fact that a select number of internships are doled out under a different criteria; that sons and daughters of donors and political insiders are given an institutionally sanctioned upper hand over their hard working peers. Who needs grades, skills and letters of recommendation when you have connections...
...spokesman. She came back during the flight to Wisconsin and offered a sample of the jokes Bush might deliver during his appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman" Thursday in New York. For Bush's "Top 10 Reasons Why I Won the Debate," Karen had a handful of ideas: "Number 10: The mikes were off. Number 9: There are laws against stalking. Number 8: I finally figured out the difference between East Timorians and West Texians. And Number 1: Strategery." That's right: "strategery". (For those who missed it, "strategery" - pronounced "stra-tee-jury" - is the word "Bush" used...