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...male final clubs carve out a corner of the social world that revolves around the preferences of men, and men alone. Men plan the parties. Men decide who gets in and who does not. Women are left to suffer the consequences...
Merely four hours later, two Adams residents entered the Eliot dining hall to retrieve their prized emblem. According to Alana C. Ju '10—an Eliot national—“the pair stood around awkwardly and walked back and forth for a few minutes, then climbed up to take the gong while making obscene gestures at the honorable denizens of Eliot...
After two weeks of carrying around water guns in their backpacks, throwing socks at zombie blockmates, and for some, even skipping lectures, the approximately 140 Kirkland House residents who began the game as living humans quickly saw their ranks diminish due to the murderous Alpha Zombie and his offspring...
...rancor around Johnsen's nomination reached an unusual pitch for a position that until recent years was typically filled quickly and without controversy. The vitriol flowed in part because of the candidate herself, with her pro-choice positions and national-security stances. But the other reason was the long shadow that hangs to this day over the office known as the OLC. That shadow is torture...
Maybe Bertone should have taken the silent route too. Gay-rights groups around the world lashed out at the comment, starting with Chilean activist Rolando Jimenez, who called it part of a "perverse strategy by the Vatican to try to escape its own responsibility" for allowing abusive priests to go unchecked. More telling was criticism from within the church. U.S.-based Jesuit writer Father James Martin publicly took on Bertone, disputing the research behind the theory and pointing out that the Pope himself declined to cite a correlation between homosexuality and sex abuse of minors when asked by reporters...