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...Faculty Council mused about its forum, Attendance at monthly meetings dwindled low. “We think the problem must be with the quorum!” “We must not stoop to pressure or implore ‘em, Who cares if the professors never go?” The Faculty Council mused about its forum. “Like Amaker, let’s lower standards for ‘em! From one-sixth to one-eighth will do, you know; We think the problem must be with the quorum...
...David R. Pilbeam, and the House Masters.“We do not want to be undermining students’ health. We do not want to be undermining community morale,” Faust said. “So we are going to figure out how to address this problem.”Faust also addressed an issue raised recently on Capitol Hill—the rising cost of higher education amidst ballooning university endowments.“[Financial aid] programs are very costly for us. You know we have a large endowment but that endowment funds programs and research...
...Dean of Freshman Thomas Dingman ’67—spearheaded the introduction of freshman discussion panels. In these small groups, first-year students can talk in an intimate setting about issues that stretch beyond academics. Of course, these panels will not immediately absolve any students from their problems, or give concrete answers to such questions as “what does leading a good life mean?” That would be expecting too much out of a program that—even past its pilot stages—will be incapable of providing students with solutions...
...suggesting that Clinton would not immediately remove troops from Iraq either. Yoseph S. Ayele ’11, a student this past semester in Power’s freshman seminar “The United Nations, Past and Present: Can the UN Be Fixed? Is the UN the Problem?” said that Power was a greatly inspiring professor who “cares a lot about humanity.” “She would be an excellent foreign policy advisor for any President, and she really does care about international cooperation,” Ayele said...
...managers and workers are simply lazy or corrupt. On house e-mail lists, some have even gone so far as to attack specific dining-hall employees. All this bickering directed at middlemen ignores the fact of its futility and carries on, instead of discussing solutions to the actual problem, like more flexible meal plans...