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...Western democracies. After all, central tenets of a Western, liberal education include a striving towards objectivity as well as the encouraging of independent enquiry among students. Unfortunately, my current enrollment in a seminar taught at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has forced me to amend this view. The seminar, entitled “U.S. Hegemony and International Law” and taught by Professor Shirley Scott, consists of weekly classes in which U.S. foreign policy is routinely lambasted. Should the legality of a U.S. action be dubious under international law, it will indubitably be viewed...
...proposal will amend the Michigan constitution to “ban public institutions from using affirmative action programs that give preferential treatment to groups or individuals based on their race, gender, color, ethnicity or national origin for public employment, education or contracting purposes.” And the question’s definition of public institutions is all-encompassing, including “state government, local governments, public colleges and universities, community colleges and school districts.” The results of this amendment could be disastrous to the missions of Michigan’s state institutions...
...Finally, in what could be a major decision in a vicious fight that swept through California and Washington State in the late '90s driven by African American businessman Ward Connerly, Michigan will decide if it wants to amend the state constitution to eliminate affirmative action in public institutions for educational, employment and contracting purposes...
...goes towards funding social events, such as stein clubs, that benefit the community of students residing in the House. Nevertheless, since some Houses have more residents than others, students in larger Houses are already receiving less money per student than students in houses with smaller populations. The UC should amend its formula to give each House a baseline grant amount, plus an additional small amount per student, to compensate for differences in House populations. We believe that this is the most effective way for students across the House system to receive equal value from their HoCo’s dollars...
...double funds for treating compulsive gamblers, to $1 million. Voters in Colorado and Nevada will decide whether to make the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana legal, while those in South Dakota vote on whether pot should be legalized for medical purposes. Georgians may choose to amend their constitution to require that the state preserve its "tradition of fishing and hunting." And in Michigan, embroiled in controversy over the 2004 lifting of a 99-year ban on the hunting of mourning doves, voters get a shot at reinstating it. The reputedly monogamous dove is, by resolution...