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...sounds revolutionary, it is only because we have grown too passively indifferent to our own community.The UC’s vote on the custodians’ contract negotiations has been likened to its resolutions on issues of international politics, with opponents of these resolutions calling for the UC to abstain from all political issues. Regardless of the UC’s actual influence in either of these matters, the conflation of University policy and international human rights concerns into the single term “politics” reveals a disturbing underlying attitude of indifference and resignation. It suggests that...
Instead, the lack of reliable file-sharing programs for the Macintosh platform and the terrible lethargy of contemporary dial-up download times were enough to convince me to abstain from music sharing altogether. I borrowed compact discs from friends and listened to them the not-so-old-fashioned...
Ironically, one group that is still at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases is the millions of teenagers who made public "virginity pledges" to abstain from sex until marriage. A report in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that compared with other teens, those who made the pledge are more likely to experiment with oral and anal sex, are less likely to use condoms and are just as likely to contract sexually transmitted diseases. As a group, however, pledgers do tend to wait longer to lose their "technical" virginity...
...realms of student services and student life, the Undergraduate Council (UC) has somehow found its way back to the perilous business of taking political stands—this time in a resolution supporting janitors during their contract negotiations with the University. Though well-intentioned, the UC must abstain from issuing political platitudes, as council reps lack the authority to take such stances on behalf of their constituents. The UC’s resolution in support of janitors is clearly a political statement. True, the resolution does not have any specific mention of a “living wage?...
...author of the McLean study, said he and Halpern were initially interested in exploring the psychological effects of a hallucinogen on individuals who used no other drugs. “The Navajo seemed a perfect test group,” Pope says, because church members “explicitly abstain from other drugs.”While the outcome of the McLean study certainly means comfort for the 300,000 legal users of peyote in the United States, the results apply only to this particular drug. “One must be very careful not to generalize...