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...believe firmly in First Amendment guarantees to freedom of speech, religion and assembly. We do not support an outright ban on the activities of individual BCC members on this campus. But University recognition is a privilege, not a right, and it is one that Harvard should deny in this case...
...autonomy of the proposed group, Harvard Christians in Action (HCIA). Unlike many student religious groups on campus, HCIA does not represent a religion affiliated with the United Ministry. BCC Deacon John M. Bringardner has said that the Church will not join United Ministry because it disagrees with its ban on proselytism...
...denying the HCIA University recognition, Harvard will be acting in accordance with its own regulations. The group cannot be autonomous and its parent group refuses to respect Harvard's ban on proselytism. We support Epps' opposition to the group and hope Jewett will deny the group recognition...
Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, House Republicans passed the most controversial portion of their rewrite of last year's Crime Bill (not including, that is, a possible repeal of the assault-weapons ban). By a vote of 238 to 192, the House scrapped a $13 billion outlay for new police officers and crime-prevention programs in favor of doling out $10 billion worth of block grants that communities could spend as they saw fit. Some Senate Republicans-worried that voting down money earmarked for police might not play too well to the public-indicated the measure might...
Dropping the scholarship ban would probably bring some big-time national titles to the Ivies, along with the gold mine of television revenue. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake...