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    Bush's commitment to diversity on the federal courts is borne out by the numbers, said federal court scholar Sheldon Goldman, political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His record has been the best record of any Republican president, ... It exceeds his father's record. It's not as good as President Clinton's record, but it's close to President Carter's. Carter was the breakthrough administration for diversity or nontraditional appointments.




    I think these guys took the Amherst loss a little personally, and I think that played in our favor tonight. These kids want to win, and they came out and gave it everything.




    At the University of Massachusetts Amherst, David Powicki, Associate Director of Network Services, and Richard Rogers, Faculty Advisor to the Provost for Undergraduate Education, have collaborated to build the university's first Digital Learning Commons. Staffed by librarians, library staff, IT staff and student assistants, it offers 15 group rooms, three electronic classrooms, more than 250 workstations and workspaces and more than 400 ports for network access. Developed to encourage faculty and student collaboration, the Digital Learning Commons is intended to leverage web-based services to improve the integration of information and instructional technologies. This is where Web technology starts to pay nice dividends, ... With Xythos we now have a safer, richer and more efficient alternative to email for storing and sharing files -- and our faculty, students and staff are becoming more and more comfortable using a web-based system.





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