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...means, arguing that campus religious groups, which take their spiritual missions seriously, have no place on a campus dedicated to being as inclusive and pluralistic as possible. In reality, the fact that the AACF discriminates on the basis of religion is quite ancillary to our argument. We merely believe that any overt and rigid requirements alienating a portion of the student body should not be condoned by funding derived from the entire undergraduate population. After all, even the most culturally-specific groups on campus have members that do not fit the groups’ standard profiles. It is vital that...
...week. As always, McCain has been a model of stubborn independence and utter rectitude in matters of war and peace. He has led a full-throated effort to get the Bush Administration to abjure the use of torture. But he has also made the strongest and most detailed strategic argument-most notably in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute-for a renewed effort to succeed in Iraq. He believes the war against Islamist radicalism should be the highest national priority. He is one of the few remaining American politicians who want to send more troops to the war zone...
...while the authors have not received such acclaim without reason, their argument is ultimately flawed...
...unlawful combatants” to deny captured suspects the rights that covenants like Geneva were supposed to protect. Sands also cited administration memos arguing that interrogation rules mandated by conventions on torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration—including legal counsel—could be pursued by other signatories of international treaties. Sands cited as precedent the detention of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1999 and a U.S. lawsuit in the aftermath of World War II which convicted individuals...
This is not to deny that women’s self-discovery may well proceed through such avenues as the ones outlined at the lecture in Emerson 105. Nor is the argument here that such public discussion should not take place. Rather, the organizers of the workshop should be held accountable for their disingenuous activity and false advertising: we can expect more from our own peers than the marketing of new goods to an unsuspecting group of students under the guise of personal expression and the breaking down of repressive taboos. College is presumably a moment for reflection and self...