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Like many great governmental bodies have in the past, the Undergraduate Council (UC) was undone by parliamentary procedure during Monday night’s meeting. The assembly deteriorated into a bonafide royal rumble; only suplexes were missing in a meeting marked by shouts, sulks, scuffles, and walk-outs by council...
The networks and broadcasters claim that the FCC and the Christian Coalition—which is agitating for the passage of legislation that would increase the maximum amount of indecency fines—are mounting an assault on America’s sacrosanct First Amendment right to free speech; the...
The high court ruled that Carlin’s puerile theatrics were not subject to First Amendment protection, but the narrow 5-4 margin in the FCC’s favor undermined any attempt to establish a definitive standard for indecency. Justice John Paul Stevens—writing for the...
Last night, the Undergraduate Council voted 26-19-1 in favor of allowing groups with “discriminatory clauses” in their constitutions to receive funding for events open to everyone, but still fell short of the two-thirds vote necessary to pass a constitutional amendment. While Christians...
Although a simple majority was previously required to amend the UC’s bylaws, UC President John S. Haddock ’07 ruled that a constitutional amendment that had passed earlier in the evening raised the threshold to two-thirds.