Word: banning
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...look back to see how the status of women in the U.S. has changed, we find that women have both progressed towards equality as well as regressed in the military. Last year women were finally allowed to fly combat missions and serve aboard warships after the government lifted the ban against women in combat. But Shannon Faulkner, a woman who wished to join the all-male state-supported military school, the Citadel, was ultimately denied entrance by both the school and the government of South Carolina, which upheld the school's decision. The school and state formed a plan...
...treating women as second-class citizens. This makes a mockery of the desires of women who want to pursue a military education," Valorie K. Vojdik, Faulker's lawyer, told the New York Times. Although allowing women into the Citadel and Navy doesn't seem a primary issue, the ban against them hurts them at all levels...
Harvard claims to have instituted the first restrictions on faculty-student relations in 1984, followed by the University of Iowa in 1986. But the most draconian proposal was debated at the University of Virginia two years ago, where the faculty considered a total ban on student-teacher liaisons, even if the individuals were from different departments. "The majority of the faculty agreed, but they weren't happy about more rules," says Richard Rorty, a Virginia philosophy professor. In the end Virginia fell into the mainstream and approved rules that simply "discourage" relationships in situations where there could be favoritism...
...House plans to vote in May on legislation to repeal the ban, and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole has promised to send Clinton a bill by summer...
French government officials today proposed that the U.N. should lift the ban on oil sales by Iraq. The U.S. has vowed to veto any such proposal in the Security Council...