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...leadership and debate over development plans in the nearby Silver Maple Forest brought both celebration and contention to last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. Following the resignation of Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 last month, Larry Ward was chosen to fill the vacancy on the council. Councillor Sam Seidel was elected by unanimous vote of the Council—though one councillor was not in attendance—to take over as Vice-Mayor at last night’s meeting. Both were then given the oath of office...
...trust him and we know with the ball in his hands, we will be in great shape.”The Ivy League has recognized his strong performances. In the past three weeks, he was named to the league’s weekly honor roll twice before being chosen as Ivy League Player of the Week for the most recent set of games.This has been quite a turnaround from earlier in the season. In his first three years, Housman averaged nearly 32 minutes per game, but for most of the beginning of this season, he saw his playing time...
...then asked the audience, “Do you ever see the suicides? Do you ever read about them?” He also emphasized the many statistics on prevalence of mental health issues, pointing out that some people believe that drugs and alcohol are a lifestyle people have chosen. “Is this something someone would want to choose for themselves?” he asked the audience. Often, teenagers who suffer from mental illness are less successful in school, and wind up dropping out and falling into drugs and alcohol, Kennedy said. Kennedy also told the audience...
...don’t understand why it exists. The practice of charging students when they add or drop classes seems both financially unnecessary and potential harmful to students’ academic decisions; Harvard should not penalize its students for changing their schedules after an arbitrarily chosen Monday. If regulations allow students to change their schedules until the fifth Monday of the term—which they often do—then they should be able to do so free of charge...
...main argument against granting D.C. a congressional vote is a simple one: it's not a state. Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution says Representatives are to be chosen "by the people of the several states." "The Constitution of the United States could not be clearer," Arizona Senator Jon Kyl recently said on the Senate floor. And while his opposition may have as much to do with politics as law - Republicans are skittish about a slippery slope that would lead to U.S. Senators from D.C., a Democratic stronghold - the definition of a state is surprisingly hard to pin down...