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...Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law last year that made nonviolent acts of intimidation, like cross burning, a crime. This week the Justices hear arguments over the Wisconsin statute used against Mitchell, which allows bias- related assaults to be punished more severely than the same crimes are treated when bigotry is not a motive. State Senator Lynn Adelman, who is representing Mitchell, complains that such legislation criminalizes thoughts. "What if there was a law aimed at abortion-clinic protesters that said anyone who commits trespass and is also against abortion rights commits a more serious crime and faces enhanced...
...year history of the ADL's audit. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force says attacks on homosexuals increased by 172% over the past five years. Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, reports that 1992 was "the deadliest and most violent year" for bias-related events in more than 10 years. Thirty-one of these were murders...
...Earlier this fall, the paper printed a three-part series on athletics at Harvard, and devoted dozens of column inches to uncovering the gender inequities of the Harvard Athletic Department. The Crimson took a fairly high moral ground in the series, suggesting and even accusing the department of gender bias in its allocation of funds, practice times and training trips...
...dedicated sports journalists, but reality takes its toll. So when we goof, as we did with the crew coverage last week, know that it had nothing to do with gender bias and everything to do with being human. The Radcliffe crew is right that our Sunday crew article was slanted towards the men's races. We regret...
After a couple of days to breathe the fresh air of common sense, I began to recognize that my initial shock was nothing more than a symptom of the liberal bias which routinely infects students at Harvard. The "right to carry" law is an important step in empowering the individual citizen, thus increasing freedom from crime and decreasing dependence on the government...