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...million surplus. This year, the rise in expenses outpaced revenue growth by two percent, in contrast to even revenue growth and expenses the previous year. The report highlighted several causes for the increase in expenses, including higher spending associated with employee benefits and space and occupancy costs. In particular, utility costs skyrocketed by 39 percent after growing by 10 percent last year. “Although it was a year of significant transition in many parts of the University, the financial results remained strong,” said Interim President Derek Bok in a letter preceding the report. But results...
...Decker’s comments soon became a critique of Watson and his management style. In particular, she said Watson did not take advantage of a meeting with Anthony A. Braga, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, who teaches Sociology 179: “Crime, Justice, and the American Legal System...
...apply for their choice of school, and the vast majority of parents in these districts get what they want. But some don't. And since skin color is one of several factors - including which school the child's siblings attend and how close the family lives to a particular school - that determine how students are deployed across these districts, the question before the Court is whether schools can take race into consideration or whether the Equal Protection Clause requires them to be color-blind...
...Scalia pointed to the problem in both districts of dividing students into only two categories, with no distinction made for Latino, Asian-American or multi-racial students. "What if a particular child's grandfather was white?" he asked. "There are many people of mixed blood." When told parents are allowed to self-identify with a particular racial group, Scalia said that that "seems like a big loophole...
...school? "I think she was living in Florida," Gordon said. The lawyer representing the school district did not challenge Meredith's standing to represent all parents of Jefferson County students. Instead, he used Meredith to counter the Solicitor General's claim that the students there get trapped in a particular school because of their skin color. Although Meredith's transfer request was not granted the first time around, her son got into her school of choice as a second-grader. Regardless of where Meredith's son ended up, Gordon wrapped up his argument with a description of the Equal Protection...