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...feel like my race has ever been enough of anything to be the sole reason for why I would enter into a community.” The Crimson granted the student anonymity because revealing her identity would compromise her relationsihps with members of cultural organizations. This student has chosen not to take part in her racial community, but she questions the role cultural organizations have on this campus. “It all comes down to whether these communities are open to people of other ethnicities and I haven’t seen that a lot. It is easy...
...Second Life” doing Linden Dollar arbitrage. DA blocked with five black guys, and you can imagine how that turned out. Now he won’t even go to the dining hall without using half a bottle of cocoa butter. You have already chosen your blocking group, so kudos; you now have one of the worst decisions of your life behind you. Or, you got blockstabbed (1) once or twice and ended up turning in a tear-soaked floater form. If so, good for you, you won’t force any blockmates to fake grief when they...
Broadmoor was chosen out of the 49 New Orleans neighborhoods that were flooded by Katrina because its demographics most closely resembled those of New Orleans as a whole, he said...
...what causes homosexuality took an unexpected turn this week in the wake of comments by a leading conservative Christian theologian, who says fellow evangelicals should accept that science may one day prove homosexuals are born gay. "We sin against homosexuals by insisting that sexual temptation and attraction are predominately chosen," wrote the Rev. Albert Mohler, the influential president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler's position is a startling departure from years of insistence among fundamentalists that gay rights advocates are wrong when they say homosexuality is not something they choose...
...born that way. "What is wrong with Mohler's argument is that it implies that there is something wrong with being gay," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "I would welcome the fact that they are beginning to concede that homosexuality is not a chosen lifestyle. But it is hard for me to believe that anyone that would then conclude that our next step ought to be to get about the business of changing everybody is really offering any sort of enlightened view...