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Washington thought it was done with gay issues for this year. Congress had passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which allowed states to ban same-sex marriage, and the Senate narrowly defeated a bill to ban antigay job discrimination. But gay politics of a different kind have come back to haunt Republicans and Democrats alike. In recent weeks some Republicans have found that the issue of sexual orientation--specifically their own--has re-entered the campaign. And Democrats are being accused of raising the issue to play to homophobic voters, even while their party presents itself as sympathetic...
Last year, the representatives of the Undergraduate Council on the Committee on House Life supported a ban on using house funds for all forms of religious ceremony in the houses. We couldn't disagree more with such a position. The contribution of religious ceremony to house life is certainly no less than that of a coffeehouse, an opera or a drag night. While we hold all of these communal activities (whether art or debauchery) in high esteem, we cannot regard religious observance with a lower degree of honor. Raise the nativity scene. Light the menorah. Celebrate a public Ramadan. Religious...
While limitations on admissions offices would be damaging, the effect of a national ban on affirmative action in admissions could vastly reduce the number of minorities who apply to highly selective schools, Fitzsimmons says...
Although the new policies set forth by the Inter-Club Graduate Council went into effect this summer, the undergraduate club presidents were unhappy with the keg ban and met Sunday night at the Fly Club to draft an alternative policy...
...graduate presidents decided to ban kegs and tighten guest policies in order to restore the club atmosphere, which they believe the clubs have lost in the past few years...