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...invasive.” A Harvard Square T station guitarist identifying himself only as “Barry” hadn’t yet heard of the MBTA’s plans while playing to a Sunday evening crowd. When asked of how he thought T-Radio would affect his business he simply responded, “It won’t. I’ll just play louder...
...what’s most vexing about the administration’s crackdown is its manner of interaction with student groups. The College has shown little-to-no interest in learning about the social situations and pressures students actually encounter, and how its policies might affect their circumstances. Instead, its modus operandi is to demand instant, mandatory meetings with group leaders, present them with vague accusations, and refuse to present specific or helpful evidence to deal with the “problem...
...vital interests as students are wrapped up in their fate. We undergraduates, described as “citizen-scholars” by the UC Executive Board its Oct. 3 memorandum to Dean Pilbeam, have a right to be consulted before any decisions are made that affect our lives as students, particularly those that limit access to our most vital resource: alcohol. University Hall’s pencil-necked paper-pushers exist to serve undergraduates, not to tell us how to behave.By abrogating our right, as citizen-scholars, to participate in running the College, Pilbeam has signed his own death warrant...
...local weatherman cannot say that any given storm or heat wave is caused by climate change. Rather, climate change affects the average. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, “Warming of the climate system is now unequivocal…The global average net affect of human activities…has been one of warming.” As a result of this warming, “widespread changes in precipitation amounts, ocean salinity, wind patterns and aspects of extreme weather including droughts, heavy precipitation, heat waves and the intensity of tropical cyclones...
...committee that calls the 1915 massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide. The measure passed on Wednesday despite extraordinary last-minute efforts by Bush Administration officials, including the President himself, to have it shelved out of concern that it could hurt relations with a key NATO ally and affect U.S. troops in Iraq. Seventy percent of American air cargo and a third of the fuel the U.S. uses in neighboring Iraq passes through the its air base in Incirlik in southern Turkey. Prior to the bill's passage, Turkish politicians had warned of possible retaliation by blocking...