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...bind. When Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith was asked if there will be enough options this fall for members of the Class of 2012 to graduate under Gen Ed, he said, “I’m not sure I can really answer that question...
...night with another set of music. Kolbe, who was injured at age 14, said that she was thrown into a new environment—one in which she didn’t even know how to tie her shoes. Kolbe told the crowd that the Web site will help answer questions like, “How do you wear the right prom dress so that it doesn’t get caught in your wheels when you dance?” Paul Martin described his feelings of hopelessness after being paralyzed in a car accident. While in rehab...
...simple task. A piece of chicken that is indistinguishable from real chicken would have flesh, fats, connective tissue, and perhaps even blood vessels and neurons. Therein lies the problem. If it looks like chicken and tastes like chicken, then why isn’t it chicken?The answer that PETA offers is that since no whole animals are killed, the eating of in vitro meat is not a problem. This technicality raises some serious ethical questions. Is a vegetarian who eats in vitro meat still a vegetarian? Similar problems can easily be imagined for any other individual with dietary restrictions...
...words of black critics and leaders, taken out of context, can be read as cynical renunciations of country. Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet Langston Hughes grieved in verse...
...answer, of course is simple: to legalize abortion is to put a seal of moral acceptability on the procedure. It is inconsistent to view the procedure as morally wrong, yet advocate for its legality in the name of personal choice. This tenuous position advocates the legality of a procedure that—if it is morally wrong—is wrong because it destroys human life. To some, other contentious issues, such as drinking alcohol, might be considered wrong, but not because of their effect on an innocent third party. Thus, even those who view drinking as wrong can advocate...