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Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, who attended the meeting, said that if a change in policy were to take place, students, House masters, and other individuals integral to residential life should be included in the process—as was not the case when the current policy was established...
...States foreign policy and announced Russian plans to place missiles in the Baltic region. We urge Obama to break from the Bush administration’s legacy by withdrawing the proposed American missile shield in Eastern Europe, while maintaining the commitment of the U.S. to defending Eastern Europe in case of conflict with Russia. Russia plans to install Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad, between two NATO member countries, Poland and Lithuania, in order to neutralize a missile system that the U.S. intends to set up in Poland and the Czech Republic. The U.S. insists that its proposed missile shield is meant...
...while the Warren Court deliberated over its decision in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, popular discussion buzzed around everything from child psychology to the conceptual validity of “separate but equal institutions.” By the time that ruling was handed down, however, the decision boiled down to one fact: State and local laws that segregated American citizens on account of their race violated the constitutional promise of equality...
...Justices of the Warren Court made themselves clear: “The ‘separate but equal’ doctrine adopted in Plessy v. Ferguson has no place in the field of public education.” We may only hope that, in the case of same-sex couples, similar prudence prevails, and that the Constitution’s promise of equality may ensure that they no longer be kept separate, at an irrational remove from the institution of loving marriage...
...latter would always override the will for individual liberty. At present, we are confronted with an exception to his rule, as popular majorities assert their collective will by denying same-sex couples the equal legal standing they themselves enjoy. While America’s participatory democracy is in most cases something to be elevated and emulated, in the particular case of minority rights, electoral majorities should not have the final word. This is especially true when popular sentiment demands changes in the constitutions that provide our democracy’s stability and order, largely as a means of exclusion...