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...letter sparked exactly the kind of discourse Kavulla fondly looks back on today. A UC “Tolerance Bill?? allocating UC money to student groups that promote tolerance was then passed only after heated debate, during which students described their personal experiences with homophobia, according to a Crimson article published at the time...
...this campus, then we must discuss our tolerance of Mr. Pappin and every other student who might profess an unpopular opinion,” wrote UC representative P. K. Agarwalla ’04 in an e-mail to the Council warning that the “Tolerance Bill?? might chill free speech...
...noted that the $15,000 allocated for the website was “an absurd amount of student money to be spending on a website that is hardly used.” According to John S. Haddock ’07—who sponsored the bill??the Council never intended to spend the full $15,000. “The number was arrived at not because we wanted to spend that much,” said Haddock. “Our goal in doing it in the way that we proposed was to set aside some money...
Moreover, beyond the issue of the Louisiana senators’ bald-faced avarice and the bill??s grotesque fiscal obscenity, the basic question is, why should the rest of the country pay to rebuild New Orleans? If it is worth being rebuilt, then it will be rebuilt on its own, through private investment. Clearly, certain parts of the city will be rebuilt—perhaps the historical districts, perhaps the docks—but these districts would be rebuilt without government intervention because there is private incentive to build them (in the examples above, tourist dollars and shipping...
Even State Senator Brian Lees, one of the bill??s co-sponsors and also a Republican, eventually decided to vote against his own proposition in light of same-sex marriage’s new social role in the Commonwealth. “Today, gay marriage is the law of the land,” he said. “Life has not changed for citizens of the Commonwealth, with the exception of those who can now marry who could not before.” State Senator James Timilty concurred, saying that he decided to vote against the amendment...