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Radcliffe Union of Students Co-PresidentDeborah J. Wexler `95 said, "I applaud theirdecision but I hope their decision signals areadiness to abandon other forms of discriminationas well...
...only group of people explicitly discriminated against in final clubs is women. If Women Appealing for Change can change that fact, the staff should applaud the group's effort--whether or not the staff personally likes what the clubs represent...
...over except for some squabbling about details? Not at all: the details are all-important, and the struggle over them will be prolonged and sharp. Confused too -- the Clinton plan is so sweeping that almost anyone can find in it provisions both to applaud and to decry...
Against this background, I read with interest Lorraine Lezama's analysis (Crimson, August 17) of Pope John Paul II's recent American visit. And I both concur with and applaud the observation in her opening sentence: though it was a visually exciting spectacle, the visit did not conceal the Pope's uncompromising message. Human beings are more valuable for who they are than for what they have...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase, or reading about the "Xian myth...