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...council is to propose the referendum again, it will need to do a much better job in the publicity department. Although it is difficult to pinpoint a singular explanation for last week's abysmal voter turnout, voter apathy, as some council members have pointed out, cannot be used as a primary excuse. Although council affairs are not always the most thrilling events on campus, it is hard to imagine that over 90 percent of the students don't care about their money or the student groups to which they belong...
...exceptions, the Finance Committee can only recommend grants that are one-half to two-thirds of a group's request. Most student groups are forced to turn to other resources, or, more frequently, scale back their plans or go into debt to their own members, debts which sometimes cannot be paid back. These latter two options do not merely affect the group's members, though. The decrease in available activity, or the increase in the participation costs of a given student group, can deny the student body the opportunity to enjoy or take part in an activity that could have...
...willing to suspend Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. Certainly, many council members have gone to great lengths to convince themselves they are not discriminatory--the bill goes so far as to even denounce the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. At the same time, the council apparently cannot grasp how the bill directly violates its own principles of non-discrimination and the Harvard wide policies that protect students of all minority status. By recommending that ROTC have recruiting privileges through the Office of Career Services, the bill endorses the practice of discriminatory recruiting on-campus. By recommending that...
...short, the bill is homophobic. A council that endorses homophobic legislation is a homophobic council. A homophobic council cannot claim to represent Harvard's LGBT community or the scores of students on this campus who thankfully take non-discrimination a lot more seriously than their "elected" leaders...
...sets a dangerous precedent by suggesting that the University should suspend its nondiscrimination policy when in the "national interest" or when the "admirable" aspects of an organization outweigh its bigoted ones. This precedent hurts all students the policy protects, whether women, the disabled or people of color. Institutional decision cannot rely on vague criteria that ask us to decide when discrimination is unacceptable on all terms. A non-discrimination policy that does not set limits on a discriminatory organization, even one committed to the defense of the nation, is like a drag queen without her spikes. Many have argued that...