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Council representative Joseph R. Oliveri ’05 proposed an amendment to strip the funding for HIPJ from the bill.
The Undergraduate Council overwhelmingly defeated an amendment yesterday that would have denied council funding for a walkout organized by the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ).
The amendment sparked several rounds of heated debate.
The amendment failed by a vote of 11 to 32, with a single abstention, and the grant package was ultimately approved.
The terrible freedom of war - with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities - inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like...