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...Wednesday, the Faculty Council hinted it would adopt an alternative definition similar to one proposed by the Undergraduate Council...
Although the council did not ratify a formal policy, it expressed a general consensus that the University should adopt a definition similar to the one proposed by the Undergraduate Council (UC). That definition states date rape is "sexual intercourse that occurs despite the expressed unwillingness of the victim...
Colorado's legislation makes it illegal for the state to adopt or enforce any laws that allow a bisexual, gay or lesbian person to claim discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Not only is the state prohibited from introducing gay right legislation, but the existing statutes in Boulder, Denver and Aspen were overturned by Colorado's referendum, known as Amendment...
...tenant housing, and school choice. This group also includes former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont, former Secretary of Education William Bennett and a host of like-minded Republicans in the House of Representatives. Most G.O.P. veterans acknowledge that whoever takes control of the party in 1996 will have to adopt at least some of the progressives' ideas. "The country stands ready to reward whichever party can deliver real results at the lowest possible cost," says James Pinkerton, a Bush campaign aide who is one of the group's leading thinkers. "And in this day and age, that puts a premium...
...counted in -- to say nothing of reduced human misery. But treatment is only part of her notion of a drug war that starts in the classrooms. Too bad that in her view it generally begins on the wrong foot. While Washington offers American schools $500 million each year to adopt drug-use-prevention programs, school officials are on their own when it comes to deciding which curriculum is most likely to work...