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...part of an ongoing decade-long debate, the committees voted on proposals to force corporations to adopt an environmental code of conduct, the Ceres principles. The ten points on the environment have been discussed by the committees since 1990, when the ACSR recommended abstention...
FULLY VETTED Clearly, it's time to adopt a new method for choosing the leader of the free world. Our proposal: decide which candidate's dog best exemplifies those qualities coveted by voters...
...series of disturbing events in the history of final clubs. The same year that the Skull and Bones club of Yale decided to tap women into its secret society, Harvard's now-defunct Pi Eta club was settling a 1988 alleged rape suit. In 1991 final clubs voted to adopt the College alcohol policy; three days later three clubs broke it. Later that same year Pi Eta closed forever, two rapes allegedly having taken place behind its doors...
Even the chair of Wellesley College's Alcohol Advisory Committee S. Joanne Murray, who presided over the adoption of a policy focusing more on education than enforcement, concedes that "there is some evidence that it's a good deterrent to notify parents." Wellesley town police pushed hard for the college to adopt their zero tolerance policy, according to published reports last year...
...Universities can do something which multiple vendors can adopt easily," he said...