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...really fun to hang out with—we were like best friends,” she said in a high-tech interview conducted over AIM...
...Last week, President Bush reaffirmed his disastrous doctrine of pre-emptive war in practically the same breath as his condemnation of Iran. Against this war-mongering backdrop, last Saturday a few Harvard students organized an “Iran Freedom Concert” with the supposed aim of promoting awareness about human rights violations in Iran. According to the concert’s website, the organizers took no stance “on policy issues like foreign intervention.” Their message was “simple”: “Civil rights must be respected...
...right” to live together in Pfoho? The UC resolution is the result of a lobbying effort by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance, some of whose members feel uncomfortable living with students of the same sex. Yet, instead of taking aim with practical language to ameliorate the insecurities of a few, the UC childishly invokes the rights of man and the precious term “heteronormative,” that subtle, lurking form of homophobia by which it is institutionally assumed that most people are straight.Surely, students are overwhelmingly in favor of co-ed housing...
...testing would limit our ability to educate,” MIT President Susan Hockfield said at a meeting of the U. S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education in downtown Boston. The 19-person commission was formed last year with the aim of creating a national strategy for post-secondary education. Last December, the commission’s chair, Charles Miller, suggested that introducing standardized testing at the college level would make colleges more accountable to their students and improve educational quality. The federal government would enforce the testing by withholding student...
...concert organizers identified themselves as nonpartisan and declined to comment on issues of military intervention. “This event does not come with an agenda,” said co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge ’06. “It is not for war. The aim is to recognize the fight going on in Iran for human rights.” “I don’t think politics should be a part of this event,” said Eric P. Lesser ’07, president of the College Democrats. Haddock applauded...