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What’s most amusing about reading this Targum article about the proposes changes is the arguments for a resedential college model as something new. All Douglass is today is a resedential college, albeit one with the ability to set its own degree requirements. Changing the degree requirements only solves one aspect of the issue. What makes the whole thing even more absurd is, if you read the admissions discussion, students are admitted based on a checkbox. So, as a student (a female one at that), if you pick all three, you get placed based on where the admissions gods slot you.

As for the RU Screw, the issue isn’t that you have centralized departments, but that you have some aspects (Registrar, Housing, Financial Aid) centralized and others (student adivising, activities and clubs, degree requirements) not standard. Why would you design a system where the entity offering the courses and managing registration is separate from the entity that defines the degree requirements? Why is residence life specific to each campus, each with its own training, codes, and rules college-specific, yet the housing department is centralized?

The whole system is ridiculous and needs to be fixed.

Talk about a trip down the rabbit hole.

I glanced into the room while McFadden was talking, and there, plopped in the middle of about five other inmates, sat Slobodan Milosevic. His hair and casual clothes were rumpled, a piece of sheet cake sat on a paper plate in front of him, and he was holding a bite halfway to his mouth on a plastic fork. Right next to him at the low table, also sitting on the hard plastic seat of an elementary-school-style chair, was one of the tribunal’s most prominent Bosnian Muslim defendants. And I thought to myself, the Yugoslav people, to the extent they ever existed at all, have vanished from the face of the earth. But somehow an ersatz version lives on within the walls of this high-tech jail, where Slobodan Milosevic—the Serb once known as the Butcher of Belgrade—can now share a quiet piece of cake with a Bosnian Muslim at a farewell party for their mutual friend.

Coming soon – my weekend in Houston.

Sony kills production of its robotics unit, further demonstrating the lack of vision that is so prevalent in business these days.

The worst part is this could actually work.

I thought the American Jobs Creation Act was a crock, too, especially once I heard who some of the companies were that were taking advantage of the law.