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...security checks, guest sign-in procedures, and restrictions on visitors that other universities in the Boston area impose on their undergraduates, and that’s great indeed. The obvious flip-side of our openness, of our superiors’ chronic reassurances, and the alacrity with which we approach the advisories in our inboxes, is that we tend to think we’re far safer than we actually are. That’s not a good thing, for the people whom we hurt the most, with our inflated estimations of safety, are ultimately ourselves...
Despite the misdirection of ALL and others, it is encouraging to find that groups such as Feminists for Life (FFL) and Harvard Right to Life (HRL), of which I am a member, embrace a more constructive approach. Alongside students who disapprove of HRL’s boldness to display photos of a fetus at various stages of development are many who stop and consider a FFL poster that HRL has distributed: “They say I have a free choice, but without housing on campus for me and my baby, without on-site daycare, without maternity coverage...
Some pro-choice groups are picking up on this idea. CFFC aims to “end the abortion wars” as it reframes the abortion debate with this prevention-over-prohibition approach. Conservative mouthpiece Ann Coulter has qualms about this shift in direction, stating in an op-ed titled “Abortion Stops a Bleeding Heart” that “the Democrats are trying to ‘reframe’ their message to make people think they believe abortion is wrong.” But who considers abortion “right...
...lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them. The Association should rethink its approach before handing down more summons. In late February, RIAA president Cary Sherman invoked the law in a letter to the presidents of 2,000 of America’s colleges and universities, lamenting the “extensive and unacceptable” problem of piracy on campuses. His letter goes...
...know what to make of the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confession - and I certainly don't - blame the Bush Administration's duplicitous and inconsistent approach to handling state secrets...