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There’s no denying it—in the past twelve months, it has become considerably more difficult (and expensive) to throw a party at Harvard College. From the suspension of the party grant program to a ban on hard liquor at House stein clubs, College administrators have taken it upon themselves to standardize—or suffocate—social life at Harvard. But one new policy in particular—a rule that holds student group leaders responsible for those who become intoxicated at any point during their social events—has not only raised...
...petitions, urging the judicial system to reconsider the results of the Nov. 4 referendum. (Proposition 8 overturned an earlier decision by the California Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage.) While the court weighs whether or not to get back into the fray, the civil unrest ignited by the ban shows no sign of abating. A national protest against Prop. 8 organized by JoinTheImpact.com is scheduled for today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which opponents say donated more than $20 million to the Yes on 8 campaign, has already become a focus of protests, with demonstrators...
...Sight Officially, the Philippines knows it can't sustain having 10% of its population gone for decades at a time, particularly when a worldwide economic recession means fewer jobs overseas and smaller remittance checks sent home. During an October meeting on global migration in Manila, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that millions of migrants were at risk of losing their jobs in the wake of the financial crisis - grim news for both individual Filipinos and their government. By law, the government isn't allowed to promote overseas employment. But the Department of Labor does arrange state-to-state...
...California Protesting a Gay-Marriage Ban While Barack Obama may have broken the color barrier by becoming the nation's first African-American President, the gay and lesbian community in California has erupted in protests following the approval of Proposition 8, which overturns a state supreme court decision upholding gay marriage. On Nov. 8, some 10,000 people, far more than authorities had expected, marched through Hillcrest, the hub of San Diego's gay community. Many opponents of the measure blamed religious groups for the its passage, particularly the Mormon church, which one source estimated had donated some $15 million...
...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...