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Pring-Wilson, now 29 years old, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono outside of a Western Avenue pizzeria on April 12, 2003, in what he claimed was an act of self-defense. After being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in October 2004, a second trial was granted when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that evidence about the victim’s violent past could be considered...
Right before winter break, the Undergraduate Council (UC) passed the Reading Period Resources Act, which enlists the help of five campus organizations in increasing mental health resource awareness among students...
...entirely, one that has long gone unrecognized: a threat to student privacy. According to the current wording in the Handbook for Students, administrators may access student email at will in order to “ensure compliance with…University rules.” The UC Electronic Privacy Act asks the Committee on College Life to amend the handbook to require that access to student email accounts be granted only to the Administrative Board or the Student-Faculty Judicial Board, and only when necessary to disciplinary proceedings already underway. In addition, the UC-proposed wording would require that students...
...achieved our credibility is getting our hands dirty, getting involved in issues of countries." Still, the order is facing many of the same challenges that face the entire Church, including declining numbers of clergy, especially in Western Europe and North America, and the tricky balancing act between faith and politics...
...community building function and, subsequently, must temper its political stances and activities so to be inclusive of all queer individuals.” She went on to explain that LGBT rights, such as the fight for equal marriage rights or the effort to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), deserve strong, unified support from the organization that can’t afford to be tempered. Smith makes a good point. To put her diplomatic language into straightforward terms, the BGLTSA just can’t agree. There are so many varied and sensitive opinions that, inevitably, someone is offended...