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...York Palin's New Friends Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin caused a media uproar Sept. 23 at the start of the U.N.'s 63rd General Assembly session. The McCain campaign allowed photographers (but not reporters) to sit in during her meetings with eight world leaders. After news organizations threatened to boycott coverage of the events, the campaign responded by allowing a CNN producer access. The campaign called the snafu a misunderstanding...
During his 14 years as president and chief executive of the National Environmental Trust, Philip Clapp fought for legislation to combat global warming. He even once called into question Vice President Al Gore's commitment to the environment because of the White House's "failure to provide any leadership on the clean-air standards and on climate changes." Prior to his time with the Trust, Clapp worked on the U.S. House Budget Committee's environmental task force, where he tried, to no avail, to get the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto treaty. It has since been adopted by most developed...
...Alaska. “I generally want to bring the spirit of Alaska to Cambridge, and I think this will help,” Treuer said. The Alaska Klub’s upcoming events include “Wasilla Drinks,” when the club will watch the vice-presidential debate between “our beloved Gov. Sarah Palin and that dirty Washington Insider Joe Biden,” as advertised on the club’s Facebook group page...
...student group travel and House formals. With the new grants, undergraduate student organizations and House Committees will now have access to over $745,000 in funding for this academic year, including funds through the UC that are expected to surpass a half-million dollars, according to UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09. The money for the Student Life Fund will come from Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds’ discretionary fund. “Student groups have continually voiced a need to have funding for travel,” UC President Matthew L. Sundquist...
...dean of admissions and financial aid, William R. Fitzsimmons ’67—has finally challenged the status quo with a year-long study that came to a not-so-startling conclusion: The SAT is not the best gauge of college-readiness.Steve Syverson, commission member and vice president for enrollment at Lawrence University, already made standardized tests optional at his institution several years ago. He was quoted in The New York Times concerning the SAT and the ACT, “We’re all just making assumptions about these tests. We’ve all grown...