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According to a 2003 article in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, residential self-segregation on campus is “far less common than people believe.” At Harvard, many minority students say that their time is not spent, as some claim, primarily with other minorities. “As involved as I am with the Black community, most of my time at Harvard [I am] in the minority, dealing with non-black students, with all my academic settings and all my housing,” says Lee. “I think the nature...
...launch into a monologue about the current state of football and education, but this episode illustrates the perils of Facebook. The team members who thought of the Facebook group have apologized and now claim that it was a misunderstood joke. While I don’t think these guys understand the meaning of “joke” (I’m sure my future significant other could offer legitimate forms of jokes from “Seinfeld”), their one moment lapse of judgment has now been memorialized by the global spatiality of Facebook. In short, it?...
...Despite his strong views of executive power, the current President Bush has rarely invoked executive privilege, says Rozell, at least not under that label. For example, the Administration claimed executive privilege in substance while blocking disclosure of what was discussed during meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's taskforce on energy. The Supreme Court upheld the Administration's claim in 2004, with Justice Anthony Kennedy warning that executive privilege can set "coequal branches of the government... on a collision course...
...should, of course, start with existentialist theorist Simone de Beauvoir’s classification of women as “the Other” in male-dominated society. While Beauvoir was of course not the first theorist to talk about self and Other, she did claim that men project their own insecurities on woman, devaluing them in order to privilege the male gender...
...Councillors Craig A. Kelley and Henrietta Davis said that the Grant Street ash cast a pall on the claim that the city’s tree safety measures were working...