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...claim that the presence of condoms in freshman dorms will actively reduce the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases is a weak one. Students who are responsible enough to have safe sex have enough foresight to obtain condoms from UHS or another source before things get too hot and heavy. In a society where sex is already king, there is no need for the UC to further encourage the culture...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell and Loui Itoh | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: Don’t Incentivize Promiscuity | 2/24/2006 | See Source »

...animal Abu Ghraib” in a press release. “With Harvard, one of the big points for us is that they imprison about 2000 primates at the New England National Primate Research Center,” PETA Research Associate Matthew Mongiello said. “They claim that their primate center is used for AIDS research et cetera but their main purpose is turning monkeys into cocaine and heroin addicts.”According to Mongiello, about 40 percent of any of the primate lab’s research funded by the National Institute of Health...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PETA Says HMS Lab Abuses Animals | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...Friday, saying that “Gitmo” hosts “several hundred terrorists, bad people, people that if let back out on the field would try to kill Americans. That’s just a fact.” The trouble with Rumsfeld’s claim is that he assumes for himself the role of judge and jury, the ability to determine the guilt or innocence of Guantanamo’s inmates. Terrorists must be brought to justice, but before a suspect is deemed a terrorist and imprisoned indefinitely, he must be given access...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Without Further Delay | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

However, the publication is filled with male fantasies: nude women with blonde hair and enormous breasts. For Levy, this fact alone is enough to refute the claim that posing for Playboy is the equivalent of female liberation...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deconstructing The Showgirls Next Door | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

...While there has been no claim of responsibility, suspicions immediately fell on al Qaeda in Iraq, and their Sunni allies in the insurgency. Shi?ite reactions were swift and violent. Mobs from the predominantly Shi'ite Shu'lah neighborhood in western Baghdad attacked Sunni mosques in Ghazaliya, a nearby Sunni area. Gunmen were out on the streets of Sadr City, home base for rebel cleric-and parliamentary power broker-Moqtada al-Sadr. In Basra, there were reports of heavy street fighting between Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen. Elsewhere, Sunni political party offices were attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Blast of the 'Golden Mosque' | 2/22/2006 | See Source »

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