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...when their hard work must come to an end for academia’s sake. University President Drew G. Faust will sit on the committee to select a replacement for Orleans. We hope that she and the selection committee will urge Orlean’s replacement to lift the ban on the football playoffs in the name of equality. The possibility of a playoff berth will inspire and motivate our already-strong football team. In addition, it could increase student spirit and involvement beyond merely The Game. Though we admire and appreciate Orleans’s egalitarian accomplishments and concern...
...Harvard’s ban on chalk—the stuff of hop-scotch and four-square—is an anachronistic attempt to preserve a nonexistent dream of a pristine Yard. Let’s let that attempt cede to a dream of a campus environment teeming with messages. The power of the pen and the power of the chalk stub are not so far apart...
...evolution of social customs quietly accelerated after the dictator's death. Unlike the worldwide headlines generated by Zapatero's gay-rights legislation, there was barely a whisper with the 1978 approval of a law with much wider implications: the end to the long-standing ban on the sale of contraception. Divorce and abortion would follow, as well as some of Europe's most open access to assisted-fertility treatments. In just decades, Spain has gone from a country whose women were forced to go abroad to obtain a safe and legal abortion to one that draws thousands of couples...
...tight contest, but we would lose in a big way.” Lessig said he would direct the money that had been donated for his campaign to his “Change Congress” movement, which aims to get politicians to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks,” and support public financing of campaigns. “Changing congress is the hardest political challenge that we as a nation face,” Lessig said in the video. Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright...
...Congress would be part of a larger movement, dubbed “Change Congress,” which he launched in a 10-minute video hosted on his Web site, Lessig08.org. The goal of this movement, he said, is to get politicians to agree to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks” and support public financing of campaigns. Lessig said he will decide whether to make his run by March 1. The district in which Lessig would make a bid—California’s 12th—stretches from the south of San Francisco...