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...natural to desire the death penalty, but humane and just to abolish it. ERIK A. BEACH '02 JOEL G. THOMAS...
Instead, he foresees academic reform,particularly the proposal to abolish the QRR andrequire students to take a statistics course, aswell as ethnic studies and Faculty diversity asupcoming topics of discussion in the council...
...right not to participate in subsidizing abortions through University Health Services (UHS). I assumed this was as uncontroversial an argument as anyone could make at this University. But a flurry of acrid letters to the editor proved my assumption wrong. The most indignant of these respondents wanted to abolish the right I had advertised and interpreted the right of a woman to choose an abortion as the virtual right of a woman to force pro-lifers to pay for her elective abortions. These reactions, like UHS's abortion policy itself, are contemptuous of our basic constitutional principles...
Education will emerge for the first time as a key issue in the coming presidential primaries, and Bush's success on the subject stands in stark contrast to the dismal record of his party's fallen Washington leaders. Congressional Republicans have backed away from their disastrous plan to abolish the federal Department of Education, and some took strange pride recently in blocking Bill Clinton's multibillion-dollar public-school construction plan. They have remained wedded to conservative shibboleths like education savings accounts and private-school vouchers, which have little appeal to the 89% of Americans who send their children...
...said proposals to abolish the use of foreign languages in government documents and offices would cut many immigrants off from needed services...