Word: amendment
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...Undergraduate Council voted four times last night to amend its constitution and bylaws in order to adjust to December's binding student referendum calling for a smaller council...
...overturned the ruling of a lower court in the case of Baker v. Vermont excluding same-sex couples from being "married" in the eyes of the state under the state constitution's marriage statutes. The effect of the court's decision was suspended to allow the legislature time to amend laws to conform to this new interpretation of the constitution. Though lawmakers have been arguing and listening to testimony since their first day back in session, Jan. 4, House Judiciary Committee Chair Tom Little set the ambitious goal of having a bill to present before the full House...
While the initial assumption among many Vermont residents was that domestic partnership would be the legislative response to the judicial mandate, there are, in fact, several options between the extremes of outright legalization of gay marriage and an attempt to amend the constitution. While some extreme conservatives would do anything to avoid condoning what they view as a morally reprehensible action, we anticipate and encourage the extension of equal benefits to any and all couples that are committed to one another...
...truth is, Harvard has a serious prejudice against the humanities and an even stronger prejudice against the less-canonized humanities, like Folk and Myth or Film Studies (which doesn't even exist as a concetnration). Let me amend this: Harvard has a serious prejudice against anything that brings immediate pleasure to the academic and doesn't follow an established path to future success. Computer science concentrators have their Microsoft jobs lined up. Biochemistry concentrators proceed directly to medical school. And if it doesn't have that kind of destined security, at least the English concentration has "centuries of academic respectability...