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Another response to the tragedy: the House of Commons voted in October to tighten Britain's already strict gun laws, banning all handguns larger than .22 cal. Prince Philip, who opposes the law, set off a national furor last week when he complained, "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean are you going to ban cricket bats?" The Prince has since apologized...
...community's trust in itself as a functioning entity. A student at Princeton informed me that he thinks his honor code is "too weak" because Princeton redundantly makes you sign your honor code pledge along with each exam and major paper. A sophomore at Harvard College who transferred from Cal Tech told me that his former university's simple code ("no member of the Cal Tech community shall take unfair advantage of any other member") was very effective...
According to a poll by the Daily Cal, Berkeley's daily newspaper, 45 percent of Berkeley students want affirmative action on campus to stay, 37 percent are against it and 18 percent are undecided...
...certainly don't get the feeling that a large segment of the campus is up in arms about this," said Michael Coleman, editor-in-chief of the Daily Cal...
Coleman said he was particularly upset that a group of protestors stole 3,000 copies of the Daily Cal last Monday and the entire print run of 23,000 papers last Tuesday in reaction the paper's endorsement of Prop...