Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after a group of journalism students sought out and found the real killer. According to the Associated Press, Cellucci said the fact that Porter wasn't executed was proof the system works. The governor doesn't seem to realize that this kind of argument--that because private citizens took action to save a death row inmate, the death penalty system works--is completely absurd...
...Diversity" is cool, and, best of all, diversity is safe--it doesn't bring up scary ideas like affirmative action, racist police, white privilege, economic inequality or even (at Harvard) a multicultural student center and ethnic studies. The kind of "diversity" the University encourages doesn't depend on small groups of people meeting and talking through real problems but rather on diversity brokers who urge the students to create brochure-friendly diversity...
...welcome overt discussion and opinions regarding the abortion debate. But presenting views in the context of a newspaper (even in an advertising insert) without any apparent care for the validity of information within them is a disgraceful action on the part of The Crimson...
Based on this precedent, hopefully the Faculty Council will soon begin to consider taking some action to change the creative writing program and accommodating the huge and still-growing interest there. The overwhelming majority of students who apply are being turned away. As Feldstein might say, there's a demand. We're just waiting for the supply that should logically follow. Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan '02, a Crimson editor, lives in Holworthy Hall...
PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean '02, who opened the forum, said he hoped student action wouldconvince administrators to establish a code ofconduct regulating working conditions forfactories that produce Harvard clothing...