The 2007-2008 Student Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday night which will allow the body to operate under a modified structure throughout the Summer term, as a result of delays in the Assembly's new constitution. Members of the Assembly have spent the last few weeks rewriting the document to reflect the changes recommended by the Student Governance Review Task Force report as well as other reforms. Though he had previously predicted that the group would have produced a working draft of the document to be voted on at Tuesday's meeting, Student Body President Travis Green '08 said the new constitution was not yet ready for ratification. Tuesday night's legislation will allow the Assembly to operate under the changes of the constitution before its completion. Green pointed to the flaws in the old document as the cause of the delay. "We've been operating for too long under this constitution," he said. "We aren't talking about minor tweaks. There are pages and pages of sh*t, and we don't even know what it is." The task of completing the constitution will fall to the Summer Assembly.
A survey conducted by the Tuck School of Business suggests that maintaining a level of job expertise during a period of unemployment is the best way to ensure eventual rehire -- and that potential candidates ought to place more weight on maintaining their skills. Sixty-one percent of the managers interviewed in the survey, which was released in May, responded that maintained job skills is the most influential factor in the decision to hire workers who have recently taken a break from the work force. Only 25 percent of surveyed workers, however, cited the potential loss of job skills as an important deterrent from taking time off from work. The survey, which was conducted by Tuck in conjunction with Boston-based Yost and Aquent, Inc, gathered responses from senior executives at 190 firms and 500 workers between the ages of 26 and 60.
New research conducted at Dartmouth and Cornell attempts to explain how circadian clocks, the human biological clock that paces the metabolism and senses light and dark, function and what relation they have to jet lag. According to a Dartmouth Medical School news release, the study found that the disruption of the circadian clock from traveling through many different time zones can be linked to jet lag, sleeping disorders, mental illnesses and perhaps even some cancers. Dartmouth Medical School co-authors Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros were the first to conduct a study that showed how light and dark can reset the circadian clock, similar to the way one turns a clock hand forward or backward. The study was conducted with the help of grants from the National Institutes of Health.
