Word: abstaining
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...does have a role on campus—in supporting those who do make the personal choice to abstain and enabling them to better withstand peer pressure. The student community should in turn be respectful of such choices. But the advocates of “true love” overstep the mark when they preaches the value of personal decisions to the everyone on campus...
...would disagree. Sex can be a manifestation of love and a critical step to intimacy. It can empower, liberate, and fulfill in a very unique way. But at its core, sex is essentially a personal choice. Whether students regard it as meaningful or insignificant and decide to participate or abstain, either way, problems with self-worth arise when they feel social pressure either...
...force its members into an archetype of what liberation should be, FemSex’s approach overpowers the individual instead of empowering her. Empowerment is about making your own choices, not about adhering to the FemSex agenda. I wonder how a class member who made the liberated choice to abstain from sex would be received in this group...
Under this new legislation, classes led by professors who abstain from the annual CUE Guide will likely present students with an unusual evaluation: Students, presumably, will receive a shortened CUE questionnaire, asking for comments on their TF but specifically omitting questions regarding their professor...
...reasonable option for those who both care about the environment and about sensible college finances is abstention. It should be noted that the result will inevitably be skewed by the fact that yesterday—the first day of voting—online ballots did not allow students to abstain from the EAC referendum if they chose to vote in the UC Presidential election. In response to a complaint, the Election Commission has now addressed the problem, though the ballot still carries a biased paragraph of information that never touches the real issue in implementing the EAC?...