Word: bans
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...Pilbeam’s directive shocked the campus and marked the first of several new social life regulations instituted this year, including a ban on hard liquor at most House events and new guidelines for parties held by student organizations. While the changes often amounted to only slight shifts, they continually represented both the College’s predominant top-down approach and a decrease in House autonomy and individuality...
...According to Adams HoCo Co-Chair Omar M. Abdelsamad ’09, the tightened regulations have not substantially altered events in Adams, since the House already did not serve hard liquor at Stein Clubs prior to the ban. He also noted that putting a rule on the books does not always translate into practice...
...Harvard, it’s been this way for a long time. Our university initially banned ROTC from campus in protest against the Vietnam War in 1970. But that war ended more than three decades ago, and ROTC was never re-instated. Instead, the University has simply shifted the justification of the ban to its protest over the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is profoundly discriminatory, no doubt. Nevertheless...
...political benefit Harvard University derives from banning ROTC is trivial compared with the detrimental effect the ban has on the selfless students involved. Instead of scapegoating a group of students, Harvard ought to make the bold political statement it pretends to be making, by publicly decrying the Government’s discriminatory policy. Maybe the University could even demonstrate its dissatisfaction with the policy by giving back the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds it has received over the last 15 years and refuse to take any more in the future. Instead, by punishing ROTC cadets, Harvard...
...students? We should take it upon ourselves to do what that our University won’t. We shouldn’t accept the excuse that the current ROTC ban is an effective form of protest against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Instead, we should work together with the University to persuade the Government to abandon “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” At the same time, we also have to embrace, respect, and learn from our fellow students...